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ALBANY — Graduation rates are rising and achievement gaps are closing across New York, according to newly released data from the state Education Department.

The statewide graduation rate for students who entered high school in 2015 increased by 0.8% from those a class above them, and 7.3% from students who entered high school in 2006.

The data also found the graduation rates and achievement gap between students of color and their white peers has been

diminishing by 1.5% to 6.8% among certain groups.

“The narrowing of achievement gaps is a step in the right direction, but we can never truly close achievement gaps until we address opportunity gaps,” Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa said in a statement.

“To do this, we must ensure that our education system is providing opportunities for everyone, especially our most vulnerable students, which is why the Board of Regents and the department are reviewing the state’s high school graduation

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High school graduation rates are improving statewide.

Pictured is the 2018 Hudson High School commencement ceremony.

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Catskill students and community members joined hands Thursday night in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr., and sang through the verses of “We Shall Overcome.”

CATSKILL — Members of Catskill Central School District and the Catskill community gathered Thursday to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr. A major force of change during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s, King is known for preaching and practicing nonviolence. Catskill began its celebration Thursday, the day after King’s birthday, with 50 marchers taking part in the annual Candlelight March for Peace and Justice.

In Hudson, King will be honored Sunday with musical performances, a message from the keynote speaker, the Rev. Darrell Gray of

Missouri, and refreshments, beginning at 6 p.m. at Shiloh Baptist Church on Warren Street.

Retired English teacher Edward Synan explained the significance of the children’s march, which began at the Second Baptist Church on Main Street, wended its way to the Greene County Courthouse and ended at Catskill High School.

More than 200 people attended the ceremony in the high school auditorium.

Historically, churches became an important symbol of early civil rights protests.

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New name, site called key for market

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CATSKILL — The Catskill Community Center’s farmers market will be getting a new look this year.

Spearheaded by Village Trustee Natasha Law, the event will be operated by the village.

The market will also return to Main Street after spending last summer at Dutchman’s Landing, Village President Vincent Seeley said.

In addition, the market will have a new name — one contender is Sidewalk Saturday — but this will be decided at a later date, he said.

“We want [the market] close to our Main Street shopping district,” Seeley said. “It will draw more foot traffic. Having it at Dutchman’s was a challenge and did not provide the vendors with a sustainable amount of customers.”

Law agreed, saying the market was tucked

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The Catskill Farmers Market at Dutchman’s Landing in July 2018.

Plans call for the market to return to Main Street with a new name in summer 2020, village officials said Friday.

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measures and what a diploma from New York should signify,” she said.

But the positive numbers varied by county. For example, while Columbia and Genesee counties saw one- to three-point graduation rate increases between 2018 and 2019, Greene, Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties saw decreases — a full 7 percentage points in Greene County.

The graduation rates of students of color also varied by county, but black and AfricanAmerican students saw an increase in multiple counties.

In Columbia County schools, black and African-American students’ graduation rates went from 67% in 2018 to 80% in 2019.

In Greene County, it jumped from 83% to 96%. And in Jefferson County, from 83% to 91%. In Greene and Jefferson counties, black students’ graduation rates were higher than that of their white peers in 2019.

Across the board, the most disparate graduation rates — and the largest gap — was of English-language learners.

Jefferson County’s English language learners had a graduation rate of 25% in 2019, compared to 85% among their

non-English-learning peers. In Greene County, the rates were 40%, compared to 84%. And lower was Columbia County, with a graduation rate of 19% among English-language learners, compared to 88% among non-English-language learners.

But all of the counties’ English-language learners had higher graduation rates between 2018 and 2019, which reflected a statewide trend. The graduation rate of students who have been at any time enrolled as Englishlanguage learners increased by 1% from 2018 to 2019, and for currently enrolled Englishlanguage learners, there was an increase of nearly 5%.

“The state’s Every Student Succeeds Act plan places a strong emphasis on improving the educational outcomes of English-language learners,” according to a statement from the state Board of Regents.

Despite a closing achievement gap, though, the state is heavily criticized for disproportionately and inadequately funding its public schools.

The state Senate announced last year that it would host a slew of roundtables across New York to discuss Foundation Aid, a needs-based formula to determine state funding for each school district. But the formula has been criticized by educators, advocates and legislators.

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in 2007 after a drawn-out lawsuit filed by New York City parents claiming their children’s schools were underfunded. The formula was meant to be a statewide remedy for education inequality in New York, with a lofty goal of phasing in $5.5 billion to hundreds of school districts across the state over the course of four years. The formula calculates each school district’s needs, and thus how much state funding they get, by factoring in variables such as family incomes under the poverty line in the district, the number of English-language learners, the number of students enrolled in free and reducedprice lunches, local taxes and the wealth of each district.

While the state fulfilled its commitment for the first two years, resulting in more resources for schools and higher student achievement, the 2008 recession led to a freeze of Foundation Aid, meaning cuts within school districts. The state then started borrowing money from schools to balance its own budget. School districts went from receiving $2.4 billion from the state from 2007 to 2009, to losing $2.7 billion to the state from 2010 to 2012.

“New York State was balancing its budgets on the backs of students,” Jasmine Gripper, legislative director at the Alliance for Quality Education, previously told Johnson News.

“In 2016 they finally paid back all that was cut. Since then, the state has been putting money back in Foundation Aid, but they’re not using the formula — they’re altering it once again.”

New York State United Teachers is one of the critics of the Foundation Aid formula, and took off on a seven-week bus tour across the state Wednesday to draw attention to the lack of funding.

In a statement released Thursday, NYSUT President Andy Pallotta said the new data is encouraging, but there’s still work to be done.

“If we want that future to only get brighter from here, the state must make full funding of our schools a priority,” he said.

“At a time when we see continuing educational inequality in schools across New York, full funding is especially critical for making further progress toward closing the achievement gap as well. Providing students with every resource they need to be successful in school and after graduation is an obligation we have to all of our children.”

Massarah Mikati covers the New York State Legislature and immigration for Johnson Newspaper Corp. Email her at mmikati@columbiagreenemedia. com, or find her on Twitter @ massarahmikati.

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said.

The second stop had to do with the goal of the marches.

“In those days, the laws needed to be addressed,” he said. “We ended at a school because this lesson needs to be taught and continue to be taught and here is one of the places it is taught.”

Lorraine Ferrara, another retired Catskill teacher, recalled how she, Synan and Richard Muggeo — all key organizers of the event — used to attend the march in Albany.

“One day we said let’s have Sarah Trafton/Columbia-Greene Media the party right here at Catskill The Catskill High School Chorus performed “Imagine” and “Let there be Peace on Earth” at Catskill’s High School,” she said.

18th celebration for Martin Luther King Jr. The march is now in its 18th year. a former Freedom Rider and “As we recognize this federal dreams.

Following the march in holiday, I encourage you to sit The Catskill High School Catskill High School staff Catskill, students, faculty and down and reflect on the things chorus performed “Imagine” member who organized the community members gath- he stood for,” Cook said. and “Let There Be Peace on original march in 1986 in Alered in the high school auditoAssemblyman Chris Tague, Earth,” the Catskill Elementary bany. rium to reflect on King’s mesR-102, agreed that King School Business Club and StuCatskill High School student sage. opened the doors for many dent Council read facts about and Interact Club member Catskill Central School DisKing, and the high school In- Chris Hogan recognized civil trict Superintendent Ronel people.

“Just like there would not teract Club read some of King’s rights activists that had died Cook credited much of his suchave been a Dr. Cook withquotes. in the last year. Diahann Carcess to the work of King.

Catskill High School student out a Dr. King, there may not roll, John Conyers, Elijah Cum“There wouldn’t be a Dr. and Interact Club member Auhave been an Assemblyman mings, Toni Morrison, John Cook without a Dr. King,” Cook Chris Tague,” Tague said.

“Dr. dra Bogardus-Street, who read Paul Stevens and E. Henry said.

Prior to King and the Civil King offered opportunities King’s speech “I Have Been to Twiggs were recognized.

The ceremony ended Rights Movement, African- and hope for every American. the Mountain Top,” left the Americans did not have the In old times, you had to come audience with a take-away with performers and audirights and opportunities they from a family with money or message, to use Thursday’s ence members joining hands do today, Cook said, adding have a certain type of educa- celebration as a way to “chan- around the school’s “peace nel love and unity in the small pole” to sing “We Shall Overthat younger students may tion.”

Tague, who does not have community of Catskill.” come.” take this for granted.

“We should all emulate For example, African-Amer- a college education, felt enCOLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA icans couldn’t vote and had couraged to follow his dreams King’s character and speak out against hate,” she said. because of the work of King, The Register-Star/The Daily Mail are publishedTuesto use designated water founthrough Saturday mornings by Columbia-Greene This year’s observance was day tains, hotels and schools, Cook he said, adding that Catskill’s Media (USPS 253620), One Hudson City Centre, Suite youth should also follow their dedicated to Patricia Lewis, 202, Hudson, NY 12534, a subsidiary of Johnson Newssaid.

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away from the flow of customers.

“The location has always been an issue,” she said.

“When it was down at Dutchman’s last summer, it was out of sight, out of mind. They’ve had several locations but it’s never really taken off that well.”

Seeley said he believes the market’s fresh new look is what it needs.

“We have tried and beat the farmers market concept up for

years,” Seeley said. “It is time to upgrade.”

Law said she believes the improvements will make the event a success for both farmers and merchants and will have tremendous upside for the village.

“It will bring everyone to Main Street to see what the village has to offer,” Law said.

“Merchants on Main Street will have their doors open, businesses that serve food can put tables out on the sidewalk, the farmers will set up in the pocket parks.”

Law also sees an opportunity for live music at the market, she said, adding that some

of the alleys may be closed to traffic during the event.

Law drew her inspiration from other markets in the area, she said, such as the Coxsackie Farmers Market.

“I went to see what they have and what makes them successful,” she said.

The market will open on Saturdays in mid-June, Law said.

“I’m shooting for 12-3 p.m.,” she said.

A vendor fee has not been determined for the market at this time, Law said.

Interested vendors can find out more by contacting Law at nlaw@villageofcatskill.net.

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CALENDAR Monday, Jan. 20 n Catskill Town Offices closed n Coxsackie Village Offices closed n Greenville Village Offices closed

Guilty plea in Halloween shooting

By Amanda Purcell Columbia-Greene Media

Tuesday, Jan. 21 n Athens Village Planning Board

6:30 p.m. Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Durham Town Board 7:30 p.m.

Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham n Hunter Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 5748 Route 23A, Tannersville

Wednesday, Jan. 22 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m.

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

Monday, Jan. 27 n Catskill Village Planning Board

7 p.m. Catskill Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill

Tuesday, Jan. 28 n Catskill Town Planning Board 7

p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill

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BOE budget workshop 6:30 p.m. High School Library, 341 West Main St., Catskill

Monday, Feb. 3 n Greene County Board of Electri-

cal Examiners 1 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., 4th Floor, Room 469, Catskill

Thursday, Feb. 6 n Coxsackie Village Workshop

meeting 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Monday, Feb. 10 n Catskill Village Planning Board

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

Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Tuesday, Feb. 11 n Coxsackie Village Historic Pres-

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

Monday, Feb. 17 n Coxsackie Village Offices closed in observation of President’s Day

Thursday, Feb. 20 n Coxsackie Village Planning

Board 7 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

HUDSON — A New York City man pleaded guilty Wednesday to shooting another guest during a Halloween party in Copake, according to the Columbia County District Attorney’s Office.

Jesus Figueroa, 26, of the Bronx, had been charged with second-degree attempted murder, a class B violent felony; first-degree assault, a class B felony; second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a class C felony.

State police were called to a Halloween party on Waldorf Ridge Road at about 12:30 a.m. Oct. 27. The victim, a 22-year-old man who was not named by authorities, was airlifted to Albany Medical Center and successfully underwent LANCE WHEELER FOR COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA surgery for multiple gunshot wounds.

The house at Waldorf Ridge Road where a shooting occurred Oct. 27, 2019.

Figueroa, who had heard about the party through the multimedia messag- know what the fight was about and that attendees broke out and the victim was ing app Snapchat, went to the party with Figueroa and the victim did not know shot several times with a handgun.” some of his relatives, said Assistant Dis- each other.

The victim is still recuperating, but is trict Attorney Ryan Carty, who prosecut“The homeowner hosted a Hallow- expected to make a full recovery, Carty ed the case. The party was attended by a een party for several friends,” state po- said. large number of teenagers and adults in lice said Oct. 27. “Throughout the night, Figueroa was taken into custody by their early 20s, state police said. the party grew to more than 60 guests as state police later on Oct. 27 at FamA fight broke out at some point dur- it was advertised on social media. Dur- ily Dollar, 84 Main St., in Philmont. Poing the party. Authorities said they don’t ing the party, an argument between lice also executed a search warrant at a

house also located on Main Street. State police recovered a 9mm handgun from an area behind the Family Dollar.

Figueroa will be sentenced March 13 at 1 p.m. Columbia County Judge Richard Koweek pledged 9 years in state prison in exchange for Figueroa’s guilty plea.

Assistant District Attorney Joyce Crawford also prosecuted the case.

Ghent-based attorney William Galvin represented Figueroa. Figueroa initially pleaded not guilty to all the charges Nov. 1 at his arraignment in county court.

“District Attorney [Paul] Czajka commends the state police for their “tireless efforts in this extremely complex and timely investigation,” according to a statement from the Columbia County District Attorney’s Office.

State police Senior Investigator Eric Barnes and Investigator Craig Morrison, the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office and the Hudson Police Department worked on the case and arrested Figueroa.

To reach reporter Amanda Purcell, call 518-828-1616 ext. 2500, or send an email to apurcell@thedailymail.net, or tweet to @ amandajpurcell.

General fund eyed for lodging tax revenue

By Amanda Purcell Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — The Hudson Common Council is pursuing plans to add lodging tax revenue to the city’s general fund and provide additional funds to the Hudson Youth Department.

The Common Council introduced at its meeting Monday at City Hall, 520 Warren St., a proposed local law to amend the city’s lodging tax to put money back into the city’s coffers and once again pursue a moratorium on short-term rentals.

The city’s lodging tax, which was passed in 2017, requires operators of short-term rentals for less than 30 days — including those renting through the websites Airbnb and VRBO — to register with the city clerk, who would collect a 4% tax from visitors, part of which would be used to promote tourism in Hudson.

But since then, lawmakers on the Common Council have said it’s time to rethink what the money should be used for. This

may have happened because no one anticipated the amount of revenue the tax would produce.

In the first year of the lodging tax, the industry brought in $7.5 million to $8 million in 2017, said former 4th Ward Alderman Rich Volo, who also served as head of the city Economic Development Committee of the Common Council.

“The City of Hudson finds that the dedicated revenue from the short-term lodging tax unnecessarily constrains the ability of the city to meet the other fiscal needs of the city to protect health, welfare and safety of city residents,” according to the proposed local law amending the city’s Lodging Tax. About $300,000 previously collected in taxes would be retained by the Tourism Board, Common Council President Thomas DePietro said. But any decision on how to spend the money has to be approved by the Common Council. The lodging tax is anticipated to

bring in a 21.4% revenue increase in 2020 over 2019.

“This revision will not get rid of the Tourism Board,” DePietro said. “This will, for the future, eliminate that automatic dispersal of tax funds to the tourism board.”

The law would make the switch permanent, DePietro said.

The Tourism Board, which is made up of four members appointed by the mayor and four members appointed by the Common Council, would act as any other the city board and would have to go before the Common Council for funding of any projects, DePietro said.

Fourth Ward Alderman John Rosenthal said the money could be used to offset the Youth

Department’s budget.

Meanwhile, Rosenthal and other members of the Common Council continue to pursue a moratorium on short-term rentals, with one revision: the moratorium would last six months instead of nine. The moratorium would not affect

the rentals that already pay the lodging tax, but would affect any possible revenue from future rentals.

To reach reporter Amanda Purcell, call 518-828-1616 ext. 2500, or send an email to apurcell@thedailymail. net, or tweet to @amandajpurcell.

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King’s dream the core of American greatness The anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther King Jr., like previous observances, will be used as both measuring stick and lightning rod. How far has America come since King’s life was snuffed out by an assassin? How far must the country still go to realize his vision of justice and equality?

These are fundamental questions, but they also risk leading us far astray.

The pursuit of justice can’t be wrapped into a neat and tidy bundle. One step forward sometimes means two steps back, buffeted by the political and social climate of the day. On this day, it’s difficult to tell which way the nation is headed.

Despite the insidious, know-nothing grandstanding of Donald Trump’s presidency, mass mobilizations on behalf of women’s rights and gun safety took place over the last 12 months. The young people who marched for saner gun laws are in many ways the clear inheritors of

King’s precepts behind the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where he delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech.

King’s dream has been somewhat diluted by the passage of time and overexposure of the speech’s footage, strangely topped by the contradiction of underexposure of its context.

How many of us can repeat the details of the dream?

But the words today retain their qualities of inspiration and pragmatism, and that is a tough wire to walk.

King’s protests appeared on the surface to be haphazardly assembled and fueled by emotion. In fact, they were rigorously structured, and that structure was apparent through the use of strategy and discipline, drama and moral directness.

There was never a doubt about what King wanted to express. His style created a vivid model that is still used today in protests in America, Europe and the rest of the world. King’s craftsmanship with lan-

guage is unprecedented in revolutionary thinking.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” is one of King’s most-quoted declarations, but it still carries implications. That eight-word statement challenges Americans to place moral character above political alliances.

Beyond the marches and the rhetoric, King’s vision of America simply asks for dignity for all, hate toward none. At the beginning of 2020, with the U.S. sharply divided by partisanship, race, culture and wealth, the vision must be constantly guarded.

Personal, political and societal progress will always be measured against King’s dream. This is King’s powerful legacy.

But on the anniversary of his birth, the nation has to meet higher expectations.

King’s vision of justice and equality must serve as the unshakable core of American greatness.

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Senate unanimously acts to improve health of our oceans The Washington Post

No sooner had President Donald Trump signed into law the reauthorization of a program to combat marine debris than a bipartisan group of senators began work on a comprehensive bill advancing a more ambitious approach to cleaning up the world’s oceans.

Mindful that the equivalent of a garbage truck full of plastic and junk is dumped into oceans every minute, the senators rightly saw this as a crisis that demanded strong action. They called it upping the ante, and the Senate, much to its credit, gave its unanimous approval to far-reaching legislation that targets the global challenge of marine debris. We hope the House follows suit.

The Save Our Seas 2.0 Act addresses the crisis of plastic waste and ocean debris that threatens coastal economies and harms marine life. The bill, introduced by Sens. Robert Menendez, DN.J., Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska,

and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., attacks the problem on three fronts - improving the ability of the United States to respond to marine debris events (such as a container ship accident) and clean up waste; working toward international cooperation and agreements on ocean cleanup; and exploring new, innovative ways to manage and reuse plastic waste.

The scope of the problem posed by the plastic bottles, straws, grocery bags, cigarette butts, six-pack rings, discarded fishing gear, abandoned vessels and other assorted trash that litter oceans is staggering. The United Nations estimates the amount at more than 8 million tons a year. The consequences - to coastal communities, marine life and habitats, and the maritime industry - are profound.

“We don’t have a moment to lose in confronting this problem,” the

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The bill has bipartisan support in the House, and that’s encouraging. Even if it wins final congressional approval and is signed by the president, it will be only the start of the hard work that needs to be done to clean up the mess we are making of our oceans.

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Spain and the politics of memory MADRID — An hour’s drive northwest of here, in the Valley of the Fallen, is a residue of Europe’s past that suggests what the continent’s future would have been if fascism had not been defeated in the previous century. Atop a granite mountain stands an almost 500-foot-tall stone cross, the world’s tallest. An enormous basilica has been hewn deep into the mountain. The effect, surely intended, of all this gigantism is the diminution of the individual.

It was, however, conceived by, and for the apotheosis of, the individual who, from his death in 1975 until last October, was buried there.

Francisco Franco’s remains have been removed as part of Spain’s ongoing grapple with the politics of memory. Like Americans disputing about Confederate statues and other discomfiting reminders of things past, Spaniards are in the difficult process of striking a delicate balance between necessary remembering and judicious forgetting.

At 33, Franco became Europe’s youngest general since Napoleon. In July 1936 he ignited the civil war that, until it ended with his fascist victory in 1939, was a rehearsal for the cataclysm that engulfed the rest of Europe that year.

He lacked the flamboyance of the German and Italian dictators he survived by three decades, but he had a distinctive cold cruelty: He would sign death warrants while dining, sometimes stipulating death by garroting and ordering that this method be announced to deepen the grief of the loved ones of the executed.

All civil wars are savage, but Spain’s — a boiling cauldron of left and right political fanaticisms, anti-clericalism and class hatreds -- was especially so. There are mass graves not yet opened. Paul Preston, a Franco biographer, judges Franco responsible for a large majority of the 200,000 murders — non-battle deaths

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WILL — during and after the war.

More than 33,000 are buried in the Valley of the Fallen, the largest of Spain’s many unmarked gravesites. Reportedly some from the war’s losing side died there doing forced labor for the winner.

In his 2019 book “After the Fall: Crisis, Recovery and the Making of a New Spain,” Tobias Buck of the Financial Times reports that in 2018 there were 1,143 Spanish streets named for Franco and others in his regime, and there were villages named Caudillo, the title Franco chose for himself. Forty-five years after Franco’s death, Spaniards might be embarking on a confrontation with their past akin to the one Americans are having about theirs 155 years after Appomattox.

In 1977, as Spain was beginning to tiptoe toward today’s status as a normal European nation, a law granted amnesty to former members of Franco’s regime, including his torturers. In September 2018, however, the tacit “pact of forgetting” was forgotten, to this extent: A socialist prime minister won the approval of a divided parliament (176 of 350 members for, 165 abstaining) — its ambivalence reflected the public’s — for removing Franco’s body. “I believe,” he said, “that a mature European democracy like ours cannot have symbols that divide Spaniards.”

Writing in the National Endowment for Democracy’s Journal of Democracy about European “memory laws,”

George Soroka and Felix Krawatzek note that some are “prescriptive”: They aim to buttress national unity and social cohesiveness — and perhaps thereby resist European homogenization — by giving official imprimaturs to certain historical judgments: “France’s 2005 Mekachera Act attempted to enshrine a more positive view of that country’s colonial involvement in Africa; a 2014 amendment to Russia’s penal code made it illegal to denigrate the actions of the Soviet Union during the Second World War; and a 2018 Polish statute attempted to protect the ‘good name’ of the Polish state and people against any charges of complicity in Nazi atrocities, among other potential slights.”

In Spain’s healthy democracy, parties heatedly debate national history. The law, however, is used lightly (as with the removal of Franco’s remains) to shape the future by taking, as France, Russia, Poland and other nations have done, normative positions about the past.

Europeans walk gingerly among their cultural inheritances. The Vienna Philharmonic always plays the Radetzky March at its annual New Year’s Day concert, which this month was broadcast to 92 nations. This year, however, it played an altered version of the march because it was reminded that the usual version was arranged by an Austrian who was a member of the Nazi Party and who, the Financial Times reports, “also made popular arrangements of the party’s anthem, the Horst-Wessel-Lied.” On a continent strewn with ruins, there is much to remember to remember. Or sometimes to forget.

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Bail reform a travesty To the editor: The bail reform law is a travesty of justice! It does more to help career criminals and

dangerous felons than helping the poor. Tell your representatives your anger. Rep. Didi Barrett, 518-828-9161.

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In support of bail reform To the editor: There has been a lot of noise from the right regarding the topic of bail reform, most of it either misleading or illinformed. I wanted to take an opportunity to correct some misconceptions, as well as to support one point on which the Republican pundits are correct.

Bail is meant to mitigate flight risk, not to keep people in jail between conviction and trial. It’s been used for decades to deny due process and keep alleged perpetrators in prison indefinitely, and without trial.

Remand is meant for individuals or recidivists, who are objectively judged to be dangerous. This process must take place via an adversarial procedure where prosecutors

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must prove a defendant’s danger to the public — not where defendants must prove they’re NOT — and the need for remand to custody.

Although the bail reform provisions enacted by the Legislature and Governor Cuomo are good, the adversarial process for remand has been completely hobbled.

We’ve seen numerous cases in the news recently where armed robbers and drunk drivers were released, only to commit their crimes again, often with disastrous results.

Prosecutors and law enforcement need this process back in their toolbox, and quickly.

We call on Democratic representatives in the Assembly and Senate and Governor Cuomo to revisit and reinstate the remand process for

certain crimes by amending their bail reform provisions as soon as possible.

We would also like to remind Republican pundits of citizens’ Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process, and their Sixth Amendment right to innocence until the state proves guilt. We call on Republican politicians, law enforcement and prosecutors to stop churning out poorly written opinion pieces that conflate the removal of bail for lesser, non-violent crimes with the need to remand, and to stop using bail as a means for jailing citizens indefinitely.

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John Hanna Jr. John Hanna Jr. died peacefully dover Farm. In 1972, He and Jane at home on December 25, 2019, purchased an old farmhouse in Old Chatham, NY. They spent the after a long illness.

John was born in New York next 40 years renovating WenCity in 1934, son of John and dover; adding gardens, ponds, Irene Hanna. The family split and a multitude of pets. The their time between New York and friendships formed on the farm Cape Cod, Ma., where John de- were multi-generational. In the veloped his life-long love of sail- early years, it was their family and ing and the ocean. John attended friends whom they welcomed Princeton University, graduating to the farm, then Jane and John in 1956. He was a passionate added their family and friends’ children, who became alum, and stayed conimportant friends in their nected with the Univerown rights. Mixed into sity throughout his life, this, were their 9 adored including in recent years grandchildren and their as a member of the Old friends who would deGuard. After college, scend on Wendover John attended Harvard for family holidays and Law School, graduating summer visits. Jane and in 1959.

John were never happier In 1958, he married Hanna Jr. than during “Camp HanJane Merchant, from na,” having a full house Minneapolis, whom he met while both were living in and picnics by the pond.

John was very active in his Cambridge, Ma. Theirs was a wonderful marriage, lasting al- community. He served on the most 60 years, until Jane’s death Chatham Planning Board for in 2017. The marriage produced more than 35 years. He was Chair 3 children, 9 grandchildren, and of the NYS Archives Trust, and many, many happy moments to- a Trustee on the Olana Partnership. However, perhaps the civic gether.

John’s professional career in contribution he was most proud Law began in public service. He was starting the Old Chatham 4th served in Robert Morgenthau’s of July Parade. He, and another US District Attorneys office, and neighborhood couple, decided later he was Deputy Commis- to start a parade to celebrate sioner and General Counsel for the 4th of July. The first parade the NY State Department of En- in 1980 featured 5 lonely marchvironmental Conservation under ers. By the time John had to stop Governor Nelson Rockefeller. In leading the color guard in 2014, 1975, he went into private prac- the parade had grown to feature tice, and was a founding partner marchers, fire engines, tractors, of the Albany, NY firm of White- homemade floats filled with chilman, Osterman, and Hanna. dren, vintage cars, and streamer The firm grew from its four initial adorned bicycles everywhere. partners, to becoming a pre- Between participants and speceminent firm and the largest in tators, more than 1,000 people fill Albany. Mr. Hanna concentrated the small hamlet to celebrate.

John was pre-deceased by on the fledgling area of environmental law and helped define this his wife, Jane, in 2017. He is specialty as a distinct discipline. survived by 3 children: Elizabeth John worked on some of the big- Hanna Morss, her husband Stegest cases of the time, including phen Morss, and their children Love Canal in Buffalo, and the Alexandra, Abigail, and Caroline; Hudson River contamination Katharine Hanna Morgan and in upstate NY. His law firm was her children Sarah, Jasper, Lucy, one of his passions, and his part- and Anne; and John Merchant ners and co-workers were loyal, Hanna, his wife Kimberly Davis lifelong friends. John was active Hanna, and their children John professionally in the NYS Bar As- Williams and Genevieve. He was sociation throughout his career, predeceased by his sister Elisaserving in multiple leadership po- beth Hanna Von Braitenberg, sitions and committees. He also and survived by sisters Margaret taught environmental law at the Hanna Jones and Cornelia HanJohn Marshall law school in Chi- na McMurtrie, both of Falmouth, Ma. cago.

A Celebration of Life will be Personally, much of his life revolved around his beloved Wen- held in the late Spring.

Frank J. Izzo Frank J. Izzo, 77, of Hudson, NY passed away on Tuesday, January 14th, 2020.

The celebration of Frank’s life will be held at 2:00pm on Monday, January 20, 2020 at Rock Solid Church, 334 Union Street Hudson, NY. Visitation begin at 1:00pm from the church.

Frank was born in Miami, Florida on 09/25/1942. He attended Onteora High School and went on to serve in the US Army. Frank then continued on to receive an Associates Degree from Ulster Community College. Frank was married to Rosalind (Clow) Izzo on 09/12/1980 and they were married 39 years. Frank was an Insurance Agent for Allstate Insurance Company for many

years. He enjoyed RV’s, boats, cars and trucks. He was also actively involved with Roz’s Dance Works dance studio in Hudson.

Frank is survived by his wife Rosalind, 2 daughters Jennifer and Seth, a son in law Jamie 3 grandsons Robert, James and Tyrus and 2 great granddaughters Tommi Jo and Olivia along with other loved family and friends.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be given to Rock Solid Church PO Box 424 Hudson, NY 12534. The family of Frank J. Izzo wishes to thank everyone who has supported us during this difficult time. For directions or to leave a message of condolence please visit www. batesanderson.com

Burton D. Pulver Burton D. Pulver, 71, of Old of Niverville, one brother, Duane Chatham, NY, passed away Hotaling (Mary) and one sister Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at Holly Carlotti both of Niverville, Columbia Memorial Hospital. three grandchildren, McKenna Born November 6, 1948 in & Garrett Jackson and Maxwell Hudson, NY, he was the son Pearson-Johnson and his best the late Alfred and Arfriend Outlaw. He was lene (Tator) Pulver. Burt predeceased by his worked many years brother, Anthony Hotalfor the town of Kindering. hook. He lived a simple Funeral services life with a solid group of will be held on Monfriends. Burt’s greatest day, January 20, 2020, achievement was being 1:00pm, at the Raymarried for 32 years and mond E. Bond Funeral upbringing two daughHome, Valatie, with Pulver ters. Burt will genuinely Rev. Nick Becker officiremain a staple in the Village of ating. Calling hours will be from Valatie.

11:00am-1:00 pm prior to the He is survived by his wife: funeral. Burial will be at the conBarbara(Hamm) Pulver; two venience of the family. For those daughters, Leya Jackson (Barry) who wish, contributions may be and Keeley Johnson (Eddie) made to the Columbia Greene both of Old Chatham; his step- Humane Society, 111 Humane father Duane “Dewey” Hotaling Society Rd., Hudson, NY 12534

Roberto Lugo (Papi) Roberto Lugo (Papi), age 58, Italy, his daughter Gladys Lugo, of Hernando, Florida, formerly of of Albany, NY and his daughter Taghkanic, NY, passed away on Isabella Lugo of Taghkanic, NY. December 30, 2019.

He is also survived by his brothBorn July 21,1961 in Havana ers, Carlos Lugo (Cristina) of Cuba he was the son of Hilda Lu- Hernando, FL, Mario Lugo and ciana de la Caridad Sanchez Per- his one sister Mayte Lugo both ez of Havana Cuba and the late of Havana, Cuba. In addition to Inocente Lugo. Roberto came to his four beautiful grandchildren the USA in 1980 and worked in Michelle Della Caridad and Enea the restaurant business Marchesi of Bologna, for many years and later Italy, Christian Gianni on finished his working Keith and Yvelisse career as a Union LaborAmora Keith of Albany, er. Roberto loved workNY he is also survived ing outdoors, drawing by three special nephsceneries, Latin music ews, Carlos Lugo Jr. of and bringing home stray St. Petersburgh, FL and pets to care for. Roberto Alex and Tommy Lugo was predeceased by his both of Hernando, FL. father Inocente Lugo And his loving mother Lugo and a son, Roberto Main-law Frances Varelli of rio Tower Lugo. He is survived Taghkanic. by his mother, Hilda of Havana, We will miss your big beautiCuba, his wife of 24 years, Dianne ful smile and your “Love for All”.

Lugo (Varelli) of Taghkanic, NY, Miss you and love you forever A his daughter Diagmara Lugo So- private viewing took place in Lelis (Daniele Marchesi) of Bologna, canto, FL

Valerja V. Mici Valerja V. Mici, 47, of Grandview Ave., Catskill died January 16, 2020.

White House considers changes to law banning overseas bribes

By Josh Wingrove Bloomberg News (TNS)

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration is weighing whether to seek changes to a 1977 law that makes it illegal for U.S. companies to bribe foreign officials.

“We are looking at it,” White House Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow said at the White House on Friday, in response to a reporter’s question about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. “I would just say: We are aware of it, we are looking at it, and we’ve heard complaints from some of our companies,” Kudlow said. “I don’t want to say anything definitive policywise, but we are looking at it.”

A forthcoming book called “A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of

America,” by Washington Post reporters Philip Rucker and Carol D. Leonnig, reports that Trump has complained about existing rules, and that he clashed with former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in 2017 when Trump pushed to scrap the FCPA. “It’s just so unfair that American companies aren’t allowed to pay bribes to get business overseas,” Trump said, according to an passage published by the Post. “We’re going to change that.”

The law is designed to prevent individuals and businesses in the U.S. from paying money or offering gifts to foreign officials as a way to win business overseas. Critics of the law complain that it puts U.S. businesses at a disadvantage in places where bribes are customary.

After Taal volcano eruption, rescuers save abandoned pets and livestock Regine Cabato The Washington Post

Tens of thousands fled towns in the Philippines when the Taal volcano erupted Sunday, blanketing the region in ash and raising worries that a more dangerous eruption could come.

But while residents have emptied out towns, many pets and farm animals have been left behind. Evacuation centers are supposed to have spaces for animals, but many people could not ferry their livestock and pets withPHOTO FOR THE WASHINGTON POST BY MARTIN SAN DIEGO out assistance. Operations Some residents chose to stay and tend to their pets and animals. to rescue abandoned animals have been organized by Two more cats, Tony and a box of three puppies. Bananimal rights organizations Pikachu, meow and stick tiling’s family evacuated and by citizens through so- their noses out from the bag on Sunday, but she said cial media. slung on her back. She has she couldn’t sleep knowing On the main highway in three bundles of clothes, their pets were left behind. the town of Talisay, Bantil- her neighbor’s two dogs — She is waiting for volunteers ing, 21, cradled her cat Lala. Queenie and Bimpo — and to pass by, hoping they can

pick up her pets for her to eventually retrieve once the eruption dies down.

Outside the abandoned town hall of Talisay, numerous dogs — from mongrels to a Siberian husky — are leashed to fences and kept in cages before being transported to safer spots. John Rex Villanueva, a volunteer veterinarian, said common problems among some animals were dehydration and skin disease, exacerbated by volcanic ash. Sophia Labayen, 34, offered her vehicle to help people transport their animals. “There’s no centralized [authority], but people have been chipping in,” she said.

The volcano continues to spew ash and could erupt explosively at any moment.

11 troops injured in missile strike FUNERAL on U.S. base in Iraq, reversing DIRECTORS assurances of no injuries Louisa Loveluck and Alex Horton The Washington Post

BAGHDAD - Eleven U.S. troops were wounded in the Jan. 8 Iranian strikes on a base in Iraq, defense officials said Thursday, reversing assurances from President Donald Trump and the Pentagon that there had been no American casualties.

Those troops are still being assessed for concussion symptoms after the blasts, Navy Capt. Bill Urban, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, said in a statement. Eight U.S. troops were evacuated to an American base in Germany, he said, and the other three were sent to Camp Arifjan in Kuwait.

“When deemed fit for duty, the service members are expected to return to Iraq,” Urban said.

The missile barrage last week against the sprawling Ain al-Asad air base in western Iraq left deep craters and the crumpled wreckage of living quarters and a helicopter launch site. At least two soldiers were thrown through the window of a meters-high tower.

U.S. officials disclosed numerous concussions as early as Jan. 13 but did not announce their severity or the evacuations until Defense One, a news website focusing on national security, reported those details. At least two dozen personnel were treated for concussions at the base, a U.S. official said.

The acknowledgment is a departure from initial reports from defense officials and the president, who described as inconsequential the effects of the missile salvos launched in retaliation for a U.S. strike that

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U.S. officials near a crater caused by Iranian airstrikes inside the Ain al-Asad base near Anbar, Iraq, on Jan. 13, 2020.

killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad.

“No Americans were harmed in last night’s attack by the Iranian regime. We suffered no casualties. All of our soldiers are safe, and only minimal damage was sustained at our military bases,” Trump said soon after the attack.

But concussions are not always as immediately evident as shrapnel or gunshot wounds, and in the ensuing days, U.S. troops were assessed for blast injuries. The 11 evacuated were sent for further care and screening “in an abundance of caution,” Urban said.

It is not clear when the personnel were evacuated. On Jan. 12, four days after the attack, Defense Secretary Mark Esper described damage to facilities and equipment but offered assurances that there were “no casualties.” Casualties are typically described by the U.S. military as personnel both wounded and killed.

The attacks came in waves for more than an hour and a half. The air turned warm as light filled the night sky and

shock waves ripped through the air, soldiers said in interviews, and the impact sent door frames deeper into the ground.

In the aftermath of the attack, Army Lt. Col. Tim Garland said he had combed through the damage assessments with skepticism, believing it was impossible that no soldiers had been killed.

“We all know that the initial report is always somewhat inaccurate. . . . I personally almost lost two of my soldiers,” Garland told reporters at the base, describing how a blast as far as 50 yards from their position blew them out of a guard tower.

“How they survived that, I have no idea. It’s an absolute miracle,” he said. The base hosts about 2,000 troops, 1,500 of them from the U.S.-led coalition.

Although there was some speculation that the attacks were designed to avoid casualties, commanders at the base think that the strikes were intended to kill U.S. personnel.

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By Bob Beyfuss For Columbia-Greene Media

Before I begin this week’s column I want to pass on a suggestion from a reader.

I have learned that many people who need to utilize local food pantries also have pets and pets must be fed too! If your local food pantry allows it, consider donating some pet food along with groceries. Most privately run pantries will not object and you will be doing a really nice service to those less fortunate than most of us. In America we spend billions of dollars on bird seed each year, spending a few extra bucks on dogs and cats should not be a burden.

Many gardeners are also bird lovers, and for good reason! Birds are important predators of insects that damage gardens during the growing season. They also provide us with beauty and amusement during the cold winter as they flock to our bird feeders.

Birding as a hobby currently ranks second only to gardening as America’s favorite pastime, with an estimated 43% of all U.S. households or about 65 million people participating each year. Winter bird feeding is also educational since children and adults can easily learn how to recognize the feathered visitors perched outside a convenient window by using a good identification book. In our region it is not uncommon to have as many as 30 different species visit our bird feeders.

Winter bird feeders also provide excellent photo opportunities. Readers have sent me some incredible close-up pictures of birds feeding in their backyards, including a couple of hawks feeding on raw chicken carcasses tied to a sturdy stake right in the city of

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BEYFUSS Kingston. I am not sure if that is even legal, but I think it is.

Bird feeders intended for songbirds sometimes attract songbird predators, such as hawks. My friend Lester just told me he spotted a sharpshinned hawk attacking chickadees at his bird feeder.

Lester has a raised bed near his front window that doubles as a vegetable garden in the summer and a platform feeder for the birds in the winter.

Several years ago I witnessed a goshawk attack and kill a crow that was feeding on some unharvested corn in my vegetable garden. I managed to videotape the attack and I think it is still on YouTube, posted as “goshawk eating crow.”

During the spring and summer most songbirds feed on nutritious and readily available insects and spiders. In the winter, non-migratory species must change their diet to fruits and seeds. This is where we can provide some help in the form of purchased birdseed. It is true that different species of birds have different preferences for seeds but it can be very expensive to try to provide everything any bird would want. The trick is to provide the seed that most songbirds will eat and the most preferred type of birdseed, by far, is black oil sunflower seeds. The price for black oil sunflower seed has

risen substantially in the past five years, however, and this has led some people to look for cheaper alternatives. Buying cheaper birdseed blends or mixtures is not necessarily the answer if the birds shun it.

Most kitchen scraps such as leftover pastry, cookies or bread will attract starlings or rats and should be avoided.

You can skim off excess fat from soups or stews and fat that is trimmed from meat or even leftover cooking oil can be frozen and put in mesh bags for suet-eating birds such as woodpeckers.

Of course, if the temperature rises above freezing for long you may have a pool of oil or grease on your porch unless the substance is in a bowl or some sort. Some birds will eat fruit such as apple slices, raisins and even citrus fruit.

It costs nothing to hike in the woods or fields and collect natural bird foods. Some of the much-maligned plants in our landscapes, such as multiflora rose, autumn olive, honeysuckle, barberry, and even staghorn sumac provide food for birds that is free for the taking. I don’t recommend that you intentionally plant these species, but you can plant native berry-producing plants including crabapples, viburnums, shrubby dogwoods, winterberry, elderberry, and even vegetables such as sweet corn. It is not legal to put corn or hay out where deer will feed on it, but it is legal to plant and not harvest a patch of corn in your garden or backyard. DEC has just changed the regulations regarding deer feeding this past month, so please adhere to them!

Reach Bob Beyfuss at rlb14@cornell.edu.

Assemblyman Tague named to Farm Bureau Circle of Friends SCHOHARIE — Assemblyman Chris Tague (R,C,I,RefSchoharie) has been named to the Farm Bureau’s Circle of Friends for his championing of farmers, agriculture and agricultural businesses.

Tague supports numerous farm bills to make rural, dairy, produce and every kind of

farmer’s job and life easier.

“I am so immensely honored to be named to the Circle of Friends,” Tague said. “As a former dairy farmer, I am particularly in tune with the struggles our farmers are facing. Dairy is in crisis, produce is being throttled and Albany has shown time and

time again that agriculture is the last thing on their mind. I would like to thank the Farm Bureau for supporting our farmers and know that I will always champion the cause of our agriculture because the age-old adage will always stand true — no farms, no food.”

Rhinebeck Area Chamber of Commerce announces annual dinner and Good Egg Award RHINEBECK — The Rhinebeck Area Chamber of Commerce announces its annual State of Rhinebeck Dinner and Good Egg Award, held Jan. 30, at the Beekman Arms, 6387 Mill St., Rhinebeck.

The 2020 Good Egg recipient is Northern Dutchess Hospital Foundation’s Colleen Cruikshank, whose contributions to the Rhinebeck landscape reach far and wide. The award recipient is chosen by the Rhinebeck Chamber board of directors each year, and selected based on an individual’s significant presence in making a difference.

Doors open for the event at 5:30 p.m., with hors d’oeuvres at 6 p.m. and a sit-down dinner at 7 p.m.; there will be a cash bar.

A brief summary of the business climate will be addressed as it relates to Rhinebeck and the Hudson Valley, providing an opportunity for business leaders and the general public to hear firsthand the “state of Rhinebeck.”

Participants will also discuss and address issues relevant to the community. Invited guests include Rhinebeck Village Mayor Gary Bassett, a representative from the Rhinebeck town board and the Rhinebeck Central School District board.

The event is open to chamber members ($85 per ticket) and non-members ($95 per ticket); sponsorships and program ad placements are available.

A focal point of the evening

is the Good Egg presentation, which will be given by Rhinebeck Chamber Board President Philip Meltzer to honoree Cruikshank.

A resident of Rhinebeck since 1996, Cruikshank has held and continues to hold numerous active posts in the community.

Her local career began as a manager at Southlands Foundation, and later as executive director of the Rhinebeck Chamber, where she co-established the Good Egg Award honor.

She joined the Northern Dutchess Hospital Foundation in 2015, where she is involved

in growing the hospital and its services through philanthropy.

Her current affiliations include work with the Frost Memorial Fund, and board seats at both Dutchess Tourism Inc. and the Dutchess County Planning Board.

The Good Egg trophy is a colorful purple-hued glass sculpture designed and created by local artist Tom Stoenner.

To learn more about the dinner and sponsorship and program ad opportunities, visit http://rhinebeckchamber.com, email rhinebeckchamber@ gmail.com or call 845-876-5904.

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Our Savior’s Lutheran Church to host ‘Night to Shine’ on Feb. 7 ALBANY — Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, 63 Mountain View Ave., Albany, will serve as one of 720 churches around the world to host Night to Shine 2020, a prom night experience for people with special needs ages 14 and older, 6-9 p.m. Feb. 7.

Sponsored by the Tim Tebow Foundation, the event, now in its sixth year, takes place in all 50 states and 24 countries, and is supported by 200,000 volunteers who come together to celebrate 100,000 honored guests.

“Everyone deserves their moment, their night to shine,” said event organizer Tom Roemke. “We are thrilled to be a part of this movement that is uniting churches of different denominations all over the world with the common goal of celebrating people with special needs.”

Night to Shine guests enter the complimentary event on a red carpet with a warm welcome from a friendly crowd and paparazzi. Once inside, guests receive the royal treatment, including hair and makeup stations, shoe-shining areas, limousine rides, corsages and boutonnieres, a catered dinner, karaoke, prom favors for each honored guest, a respite room for parents and caretakers, and, of course, a dance floor… all leading up to the moment when each guest is crowned king or queen of the prom.

“Night to Shine is my favorite night of the year,” said Tim Tebow, whose foundation has committed more than $3.5 million in financial support to enable hundreds of sites to host this one-of-a-kind event. “It’s also a favorite night for thousands of kings and queens all over the world who we crown at the end of this prom.

Every town, village, state, and country should host a Night to Shine for their special-needs community. It’s a time in which people can work together and be a part of something significant and life changing.”

Dozens of volunteers — ranging from greeters and medical personnel to karaoke and set up/tear down crews — help make

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every guest feel special. Our Savior’s Lutheran Church is currently seeking additional Buddy Escorts, whose job is to escort guests and give them an unforgettable experience.

“We need mature (must be at least 16 ), patient, loving people to serve as escorts,” said Roemke, noting it’s one of the prom’s most important jobs. “As an escort, you are responsible for taking a guest on your arm as you show them around

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prom. You’ll escort them to get dinner, karaoke, get their hair done, play games, and, of course, dance!”

To volunteer or for additional information, visit www.oslalbany.com/nightto-shine, or contact Tom Roemke at 518-669-0790 (cell) or email troemke@nycap.rr.com.

For more information on Night to Shine, visit: http:// www.timtebowfoundation. org/index.php/night-toshine/.

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Church Briefs PIZZA FUNDRAISER EAST BERNE — The Helderberg Christian School, 96 Main St., East Berne, Pizza Fundraiser will be held 4-8 p.m. Jan. 24. Eat in or take out. Cheese pizza, $10; white pizza, $10; one topping, $13; two toppings, $15; three or more, $17. White ricotta broccoli, $17. The pizza is an eight cut large. Order early for preferrred/available time for pick up. Orders must be placed by Jan. 22. For information and to order, call 518-795-7491 with name, order and preferred pick up time.

PRAYER AND WORSHIP EAST BERNE — The Helderberg Christian School, 96 Main St., East Berne, will hold an afternoon of prayer and worship beginning at 4 p.m.

Feb. 1.

REMEMBERING REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. HUDSON — The Columbia County Interfaith Committee will hold a gathering to remember the message of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at 6

p.m. Jan. 19 at Shiloh Baptist Church, 14 Warren St., Hudson. The gathering will include musical performances, a stirring message from Rev. Darrell Gray from Missouri as well as refreshments. All are welcome to this a free event.

Freewill offerings are welcome to help defray costs.

POLISH DINNER GREENPORT — Sacred Heart/Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Shrine, 442 Fairview Ave., Greenport, will hold a Polish dinner, take out only, 11:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Jan. 23. Dinner includes kielbasa, stuffed cabbage, pierogies and dessert.

The cost is $10. Call 518-8280342 for to pre-order or 518828-8775 day of.

CONCERT SAUGERTIES — Strawberry Hill Fiddlers, Saugerties Pro Musica Youth String Orchestra performs at 3 p.m. Jan. 26 at the Saugerties United Methodist Church, 67 Washington Ave., Saugerties.

Adults, $15; seniors, $12; students, free. For information,

call 845-679-5733.

PIZZA TAKE OUT GREENPORT — Sacred Heart Mt. Carmel Shrine, 442 Fairview Ave., Greenport, pizza takeout noon-6 p.m. Feb. 7.

Pizza is $10, extra toppings, $1 each. Call 518-828-8775. Pick up between 3:30-6:30 p.m.

Bake at home also available.

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

Pick up between 3:30-6:30 p.m. Bake at home also available.

PASTA FAGIOLI GREENPORT — Sacred Heart/Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Shrine, 442 Fairview Ave., Greenport, will serve a pasta fagioli with sausage meat lunch and dinner on Feb. 20.

One quarter with bread and butter, $8. Call in orders 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. at 518-8288775. Pick up between 11:30 a.m.-6 p.m.

Coxsackie-Athens Central announces kindergarten registration dates COXSACKIE — Kindergarten registration dates for the Coxsackie-Athens Central Schools have been scheduled.

Registration for Edward J. Arthur Elementary School will be Feb. 12, and registration for students scheduled to attend Coxsackie Elementary School will be Feb. 11.

Times for both schools are 9 a.m.-noon; 1-3 p.m.; and 5-6 p.m. If necessary, the snow

date for both schools will be Feb. 13, same times.

Children should be registered at the school they will be attending. In order to be eligible for kindergarten, a child must be five years old on or before Dec. l, 2020. A birth certificate must be presented at the registration.

Each registrant must also present proof of the following immunizations: three DPT, three oral polio, two measles,

mumps and rubella, three doses of Hepatitis B vaccine, and proof of residence.

Registration information will be mailed to parents of children listed on the school census on Jan. 17. Anyone with an eligible child who does not receive this information should contact Edward J. Arthur Elementary School at 518-73l-l750 or Coxsackie Elementary School at 518-73l-l770.

Cairo-Durham seeks nominations for Mustang Pride Hall of Fame CAIRO — Do you know a person or community organization that has given extensive service to the Cairo-Durham Central School District? Nominate them for the Mustang Pride Hall of Fame.

Nominees must have contributed to the improvement

of the Cairo-Durham CSD with extensive service through academics, athletics, coaching, teaching, administration, employment, volunteerism and/or community service. Nominees can be past or present staff members, school administrators, board of education

members, students and community members.

To submit nominations for the Mustang Pride Hall of Fame, visit www.cairodurham.org.

The chosen nominees will be honored at the third annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony in April.

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The evening news today had an article about school lunches and how they are being made healthier — less fat, less sodium, fruits, fresh veggies. It sounds like the stuff they keep trying to get senior citizens to eat.

Hope they have more luck with the kids than they do with the seniors. Senior centers, Meals on Wheels, and nursing homes have all been trying for years to encourage healthy eating. It’s a good thing, I suppose — a lot of seniors are diabetic, have high blood pressure, high cholesterol and are constipated.

A healthy diet would help in all these conditions; the only problem is you have to get the seniors to eat these healthy foods and only these healthy foods.

Seniors get to be seniors by being around for a long time, during which time they learn useful things like places to hide things. You could take the average grandmother, confiscate her purse, strip search her, run her through one of those metal detector machines they have at the airport, sit her on a plain wooden bench in the middle of a gymnasium, send in a grandkid and the kid will walk away with a cookie or a piece of chocolate. Peek into the average senior lady’s purse and I bet the slightly overripe banana sitting on my kitchen counter that you’ll find packets of sugar or artificial

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BROOKS sweetener purloined from a local eatery. Other treasures from the aforementioned eateries that might be found are packets of crackers, after-dinner mints, packets of ketchup, duck sauce, salt and pepper, and mayonnaise.

I go to visit senior friends in hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living facilities and I’m offered illicit goodies from stashes hidden in drawers, from under mattresses and, in one memorable case, in a bed pan. All these goodies were in the possession of folks on restricted diets. They were not supposed to have them. They were supposed to be on strict diets consisting mostly of healthy good-foryou items.

Drug dealers and smugglers could learn a lot from some of these seniors. They might be in a hospital, no access to any form of transportation, no cash on hand, no clothes other than a hospital gown, and you can bet that in most cases they have a goody

stash somewhere in the room and a supply system in place to replenish it as needed. Why do they do it? It’s a game they can still play and they play it well. A lot of them grew up during the Great Depression, which wasn’t really so great.

Their mantra was “Waste not, want not.” They are opportunists and don’t leave good stuff just lying around where it could be thrown out. You can still play “Stash the Goodies” long after your football or tennis playing days are over. It’s a way to be naughty without really hurting anybody. They’ll eat the healthy food because they know they should, but they’ll continue to stash the good stuff because it’s fun and it tastes good.

Give an average school child a tray with a veggie burger, raw carrots and celery sticks, low-fat milk and an apple, then offer to swap him a Happy Meal or a package of Twinkies and see what happens. We shouldn’t be discouraged — remember, the students of today are training to be the seniors of tomorrow.

Thought for the week — “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” — Thomas Jefferson Until next week, may you and yours be happy and well.

Reach Dick Brooks at Whittle12124@yahoo.com.

Hudson Interfaith Council celebrates the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. HUDSON — The Hudson Interfaith Council invites the public to share in a celebration of the holiday in appreciation for the life, light and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The annual community observance will be held at 6 p.m. Jan. 19 at Shiloh Baptist Church, 14 Warren St., Hudson, where the Rev. Ronald Grant is pastor.

The 2020 guest speaker will be former Kansas State Senator, the Rev. Darryl Gray. He currently serves as associate pastor of the Greater Fairfax Missionary Baptist Church in Missouri, and as a leader on several boards, both state and national.

The Rev. Gray is a 40-plus year veteran of the United States and Canadian Civil and Human Rights Movement.

He began his journey as one of the “Ground Crew” of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, in the mid 1970s, after being recruited by the late Rev. Dr. Ralph David Abernathy Jr. (long-time companion of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and second national president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference).

He has worked on the senior staff level with various civil rights icons, including the late Coretta Scott King, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and others. He was a vital component in organizing national civil rights initiatives, both substantive and symbolic, such as the 25th anniversary celebration of the “I Have A Dream” speech, the 50th anniversary March from Selma

to Montgomery, and the 50th anniversary national celebration of the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The Rev. Gray’s spiritual journey began in 1983, as he was called to ministry while serving in the Kansas State Senate, serving as the only African-American state senator in Kansas, at that time.

The Rev. Gray has served as senior pastor in churches in Canada and the United States.

“I am not a pastor because I’m an activist; I’m an activist because I am a pastor,” he said. “God calls all of us to live for the sake of others, and that means serving in the valley, more than celebrating on the mountaintop.”

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News & Services Trinity United Methodist 1311 Rte. 143, Coeymans Hollow | NY 12046 • 756-2812

Pastor Paul Meador • Sunday Worship 11:00am (all are welcome) • Church School: “Faith Builders Kids Christian Education” Wednesday at 7pm • Wednesday, Bible Study & Prayer - 7-8:30pm (all are welcome) • Food Pantry, Last Saturday of the month, 10-11am and last Monday of the month, 5-6pm, or by appointment • Thrift Shop Open April 12 - Mid Oct., Thursdays 10 - 4 Saturdays 10 - 2 and when Food Pantry is open. (Handicap Accessible) • Youth Group - Grades 6 - 12 2nd and 4th Thursdays @ 6:30pm

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Janine O’Leary, Parish Life Coordinator Fr. L. Edward Deimeke, Sacramental Minister Saturday* 4:00 p.m. EST / 4:30 p.m. DST *1st / 3rd Athens and 2nd /; 4th Catskill Sunday 8:45 a.m. Catskill / 10:45 a.m. Athens

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Rev. Rick L. Behan, Pastor Sunday Worship - 9:30 AM Communion First Sunday every month Fellowship before and after worship Thursday - Choir Rehearsal 4:45 PM Tuesday - Bible Study 10:00 AM 2nd Sunday - Helping Hands 10:30 AM Come to the Church in the Hamlet! Working together since 1833

Church of Saint Patrick 21 Main Street, Ravena, NY 12143 • (518) 756-3145

Pastor: Fr. Scott VanDerveer Weekly Mass: 9:00 a.m. Wed & Thurs Saturday Vigil 4:30 p.m. Sunday 9:30 a.m.

Food Pantry Hours: Tues & Thurs 10-11 a.m.

Wednesday 6-7:00 p.m.

Thrift Shop Hours: Wed. 6:00-7:00 Thurs, Fri. & Sat. 1:00-3:00 p.m.

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BRIEFS We want to hear from you.

To send information to be included in Briefs, email to editorial@thedailymail.net; mail to The Daily Mail, Atten: Community News, One Hudson City Centre, Suite 202, Hudson, NY 12534; fax to 518-828-3870. For information, and questions, call 518-828-1616 ext. 2490.

JAN. 18 HUDSON — The FASNY Museum of Firefighting, 117 Harry Howard Ave., Hudson, presents a Super Saturday event at 10:30 a.m. Jan. 18.

Professor Sparks and his robot companion, Spot 2000, will present an interactive program that is full of surprises.

After the program make your own “slime” to take home. This hands-on program is appropriate for children 5 and older.

This program and admission to the Museum for the day is free to residents of Columbia County (with proof of residency: a drivers license for head of household). For information about this program, other

upcoming Super Saturday programs or the Museum, call 518-822-1875 ext.17 or visit www.fasnyfiremuseum.com.

VOORHEESVILLE — An Ice Fishing Clinic will be held 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Jan. 18 at Thacher Nature Center, 87 Emma Treadwell Way, Voorheesville.

Learn all about ice fishing at a free clinic co-hosted by NYS DEC, Albany County Conservation Alliance and NYS Parks.

DEC will supply some bait and tackle, but experienced anglers are encouraged to bring their own fishing gear. After a short lesson on the basics of ice fishing and filleting your catch, anglers will try their luck on the ice. Volunteers will be on hand throughout the day to assist participants on the ice.

A warming area and refreshments will be available. For information, call 518-872-0800.

Rain date is Jan. 25.

JAN. 19 ATHENS — The West Athens-Lime Street Fire Co. will

serve an all you can eat breakfast 8 a.m.-noon Jan. 19 at the West Athens Firehouse 2, 933 Leeds-Athens Road, Town of Athens. Freewill offering will be accepted.

EAST DURHAM — The East Durham Fire Company, 2401 Route 145, East Durham, will serve breakfast 8 a.m.-noon Jan. 19. Full menu available.

Eat in or take out. Freewill offering will be accepted.

VOORHEESVILLE — ‘Paradise Lost–The Late Ordovician of New York’ will presented at 2 p.m. Jan. 19 at Thacher Nature Center, 87 Emma Treadwell Way, Voorheesville. This talk focuses on trilobite diversity in the Late Ordovician of New York in comparison with other parts of Laurentia (North America) and examines the environmental changes in our area that affected the organisms that lived here. For information, call 518-872-0800.

GREENVILLE — The American Legion Greenville Post 291, 54 Maple Ave., Greenville is serving a Community Breakfast 8 a.m.-noon Jan. 19. “Open to Everyone.” All you can eat.

Come help support local veterans. Suggested donations: Adults, $10; children, $5.

JAN. 21 GREENPORT — The Greenport Branch of the Columbia Memorial Hospital Auxiliary will meet at 1 p.m. Jan. 21 at the Greenport Town Hall, 600 Town Hall Drive, Greenport, weather permitting. Plans for the coming year will be discussed.

COXSACKIE — The Heermance Memorial Library presents Census Team Information 6-8 p.m. Jan. 22 at the library, 1 Ely St., Coxsackie. Join the 2020 Census, meet Carol at the library and learn about your opportunities to be a 2020 Census Worker. The 2020 Census needs people to fill a variety of positions. Carol will be

available to give details. Free presentation. All are welcome.

Drop-in. Parking available in rear of building. To learn more, visit www.heermancelibrary. org or call 518-731-8084.

JAN. 24 EAST BERNE — The Helderberg Christian School, 96 Main St., East Berne, Pizza Fundraiser will be held 4-8 p.m. Jan. 24.

Eat in or take out. Cheese pizza, $10; white pizza, $10; one topping, $13; two toppings, $15; three or more, $17. White ricotta broccoli, $17. The pizza is an eight cut large. Order early for preferrred/available time for pick up. Orders must be placed by Jan. 22. For information and to order, call 518-7957491 with name, order and preferred pick up time.

JAN. 25 TANNERSVILLE — The Mountain Top Arboretum, 4 Maude Adams Road, Tannersville, will host Backyard Sugaring 10 a.m.-noon Jan. 25. If you have access to sugar

maple trees and can boil water then you can make your own maple syrup. Learn the basics of starting your own backyard sugaring operation in preparation for this year’s season. This presentation is for the newbie sugarer and will cover how to identify and select trees for tapping, options for collecting sap and DIY approaches to backyard boiling. Members, free; non-members, $10. No reservations necessary. For information, call 518-589-3903.

LEXINGTON — The Lexington non-partisan meeting is scheduled for 6-7 p.m. Jan. 25 at the Lexington/West Kill UM Church hall, 54 County Route 13A, Lexington. Join us when we vote on projects to pursue, listen to Liza and Paul Dwon talk about Lexington’s emergency services, get an update on the status of the comprehensive plan, find out about the progress on the reshaping of the web site and discuss town current events.

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Maple Hill vs. Catskill in Patroon Conference wrestling

LOCAL ROUNDUP:

Maple Hill grapplers take down Catskill

By Tim Martin Columbia-Greene Media

CATSKILL — Caleb Svingala remained unbeaten and unscored upon this season as Maple Hill defeated Catskill, 51-35, in Thursday’s Patroon Conference wreslting match.

Svingala needed all of 20 seconds to pin Catskill’s Scott Baker in the 126-pound division. Other Wildcats recording pins were Javier Ayarza (120), Anthony Ortiz (132), James Colvin (138) and Reese Steele (160).

Jesse Davies (145), Daniel Forbes (152), Stephen Forbes (170), Ricky Edwards (220) and George Hillenbrand all won their matches by pin for Catskill.

Results 99 — Vincent Colvin (MH) pinned Chase Allen, 5:13; 106 — Thomas Merhige (MH) won by forfeit; 113 — Dan Smith (Cats) won by forfeit; 120 — Javier Ayarza (MH) pinned Seth Marquart, :20; 126 — Caleb

Svingala (MH) pinned Scott Baker (Cats), :20; 132 — Anthony Ortiz (MH) pinned Marco Dodig, 1:47; 138 — James Colvin (MH) pinned Diego Dodig, 1:32; 145 — Jesse Davies (Cats) won by technical fall over Ethan Maier, 17-0; 152 — Daniel Forbes (Catskill) pinned Devin Feliz, :49; 160 — Reese Steele (MH) pinned Logan Denniston, 1:48; 170 — Stephen Forbes (Catskill) pinned Brandon Selmer, :54; 182 — Adrian Delfavero (Maple Hill) decisioned Jerome Van Alstyne, 6-0; 195 — Nicholas Roy (MH) won by forfeit; 220 — Ricky Ricky Edwards (Catskill) pinned Anthony Sturgis, 2:44; 285 — George Hillenbrand (Catskill) pinned Tyler Goettinger, :46.

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Beltran out as Mets manager, mutually agrees with team to part ways Deesha Thosar New York Daily News

NEW YORK — Two weeks. That’s all it took.

Carlos Beltran enjoyed being the Mets manager for two weeks before he found himself at the center of arguably the biggest cheating scandal in baseball history — leaving the Mets snakebitten.

Beltran lost his job as New York Mets manager Thursday. His tenure lasted just 77 days and ended before spring training started.

“We met with Carlos last night and again this morning and agreed to mutually part ways,” COO Jeff See METS B6

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Columbia-Greene’s Zack Hedgepeth (11) drives around Herkimer’s Kayshawn Miller during Thursday’s Region III game.

C-GCC throws scare into defending national champs

By Matt Fortunato Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — The Columbia-Greene Twins hosted the Herkimer Generals Thursday afternoon and lost a Region III heartbreaker, 81-79.

The game was hotly contested from the outset, and the Twins held their own against Herkimer, one of the top NJCAA Division III men’s basketball teams in the nation.

Generals’ freshman guard Kayshawn Miller hit three huge three-pointers and a layup for Herkimer in the early stages that fueled their offense.

Though the Twins gave up open baskets in the opening minutes, they scored with ease on the other end and kept pace.

With 7:00 left in the first half, the Generals called a timeout to reset as they trailed 31-25.

It paid off three minutes later when they tied the score at 33.

As halftime drew closer, Generals’ Shykell Brown knocked down a three-point shot to take back their lead with 1:39 to go.

After trading another few baskets in the final minute of the half, the Twins led 41-40 at the break, after another threepointer from Cameron Thomas.

Both teams started the second half going shot-for-shot, just as they ended the first, but the Twins needed to stay focused.

There were some questionable no-calls by the referees on the Twins’ next few possessions that could have sent them to the line for a shot at taking the lead.

This forced the Twins to make extra passes and settle for deep shots, instead of driving to

the paint where fouls were not getting called. Having to take lower-percentage shots allowed the Generals to climb back into the game.

Herkimer cut the Twins’ lead to 74-73 at the free throw line at the 2:25 mark, with the Twins in trouble with seven team fouls. Myles Ukoh delivers in the clutch with a huge blocked shot and sent the ball out of bounds off of the shooter.

The Twins could not turn that into points however, and committed a charge on the other end.

Inside of a minute, Twins’ Zach Hedgepeth knocks down TIM MARTIN/COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA a three-pointer but Generals’ Columbia-Greene’s Cameron Thomas (3) drives to the basket Dante Griffin hits a three of his own on the ensuing possession against Herkimer’s Jaylen Warmack (2) during Thursday’s Region III game. with 57.6 on the clock.

Thirty seconds of game time, two missed layups, a few freethrows later, the score was tied at 79 with 25.1 left, as the Twins call a timeout.

Columbia-Greene then commits a five-second violation on the in-bound play, turning it over to the Generals for a final shot. After repeatedly screaming at his teammates not to foul, Ukoh does just that, and Herkimer makes both free throws to go up, 81-79.

After a final timeout by the Twins, Ukoh took the final shot from beyond the arc, hitting it off glass and the rim at the buzzer.

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Columbia-Greene’s Jason Davis shoots over Herkimer’s Solomon Silas during Thursday’s Region III game.

New officers sworn-in at Columbia Federation Banquet

By Larry DiDonato For Columbia-Greene Media

The New Year brought with it a “changing of the guard” at the Columbia County Sportsmen’s Federation. At their annual banquet on January 13 at the Churchtown Firehouse, Kevin Hill of Copake was sworn in as the new president of the nearly 90-year-old organization.

The new slate of officers includes former Press Information Officer, Julia Horst, as Vice President, Kelly Hill who will continue as Secretary, Treasurer Alan Besterman, Public Information Officer Tracy Knott and Board Members, Judge Ron Banks, Bill Slemp, Dave Newkirk, and Tom Holleufer.

VIPs in attendance at the event included avid sportsmen’s advocates, Assemblyman Chris Tague, Columbia County Court Judges LARRY DIDONATO PHOTO Jonathan Nichols and Richard Koweek, CoFrom left to right; Bill Slemp, Dave Newkirk, (back), Tracy Knott, (front), Judge Ron Banks, Julia lumbia County District Attorney Paul Czjaka, Horst, Kevin Hill, Kelly Hill, Tom Holleufer and County Clerk Holly Tanner.

DA Investigator Jim Bertram, County Treasurer PJ Keeler, DEC Regional Wildlife Manager Mike Clarke, Environmental Conserva- James Davey, Forest Ranger Chris DiCintio, Assemblywoman Didi Barrett’s office, Mattion Officer (ECO) Lt. Walter Maloney, ECO Deacon Ed Dorsch, and representatives of thew Hartzog and Anne Arent.

Another VIP/supporter of sportsmen’s issues, Columbia County Clerk Holly Tanner, was on hand and had the honor of swearing in the new slate of federation officers.

Outgoing President Jim Bashford expressed praise and wished the new officer’s success as he expressed an optimistic view of the future of the federation under its new leadership. Bill Van Deusen, who served as vice president of the organization with Bashford for the past five years, echoed Jim’s bright vision for the future of the federation.

The two looked back at some accomplishments toward the organization’s stated goal of promoting and preserving hunting and fishing in Columbia County, by presenting awards to some key members who helped them in that mission.

Award recipients included, Columbia County Clerk, Holly Tanner, ECO Jeff Cox, Forest Ranger Chris DiCintio, Youth Outdoor Education Coordinator Kathy Burke, Trout in the See OFFICERS B6

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NHL ROUNDUP:

NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic W L Pct Boston 27 13 .675 Toronto 26 14 .650 Philadelphia 26 16 .619 Brooklyn 18 22 .450 New York 11 31 .262 Central W L Pct Milwaukee 37 6 .860 Indiana 26 15 .634 Chicago 15 27 .357 Detroit 15 27 .357 Cleveland 12 29 .293 Southeast W L Pct Miami 28 12 .700 Orlando 20 21 .488 Charlotte 15 29 .341 Washington 13 27 .325 Atlanta 9 32 .220 Western Conference Northwest W L Pct Denver 28 12 .700 Utah 28 13 .683 Oklahoma City 23 18 .561 Portland 18 24 .429 Minnesota 15 25 .375 Pacific W L Pct L.A. Lakers 33 8 .805 L.A. Clippers 28 13 .683 Phoenix 17 24 .415 Sacramento 15 26 .366 Golden State 9 33 .214 Southwest W L Pct Houston 26 14 .650 Dallas 26 15 .634 Memphis 19 22 .463 San Antonio 17 22 .436 New Orleans 16 26 .381 Thursday’s games Phoenix 121, New York 98 Milwaukee 128, Boston 123 New Orleans 138, Utah 132, OT Denver at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

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

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

Chicago at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Washington at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Cleveland at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Miami at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

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

Portland at Dallas, 9:30 p.m.

Saturday’s games L.A. Clippers at New Orleans, 3:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Brooklyn, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Boston, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at New York, 7:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Toronto at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Houston, 8:30 p.m.

Orlando at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Portland at Oklahoma City, 9 p.m.

Sacramento at Utah, 9 p.m.

GB — 1.0 2.0 9.0 17.0 GB — 10.0 21.5 21.5 24.0 GB — 8.5 15.0 15.0 19.5 GB — .5 5.5 11.0 13.0 GB — 5.0 16.0 18.0 24.5 GB — .5 7.5 8.5 11.0

Pro hockey Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT SO Pts Boston 49 28 9 5 7 68 Tampa Bay 47 28 15 4 0 60 Toronto 48 25 16 3 4 57 Florida 46 25 16 2 3 55 Buffalo 48 22 19 6 1 51 Montreal 49 21 21 6 1 49 Ottawa 47 16 23 5 3 40 Detroit 47 12 32 2 1 27 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT SO Pts Washington 48 32 11 3 2 69 Pittsburgh 47 29 13 5 0 63 NY Islanders 46 28 14 3 1 60 Carolina 47 27 18 2 0 56 Columbus 48 24 16 6 2 56 Philadelphia 48 25 17 1 5 56 NY Rangers 46 23 19 2 2 50 New Jersey 47 17 23 3 4 41 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT SO Pts St. Louis 48 30 10 5 3 68 Colorado 47 26 15 5 1 58 Dallas 47 27 16 2 2 58 Winnipeg 47 25 18 3 1 54 Chicago 48 22 20 2 4 50 Nashville 46 21 18 4 3 49 Minnesota 47 21 20 4 2 48 Pacific Division GP W L OT SO Pts Arizona 49 26 18 2 3 57 Calgary 49 26 18 5 0 57 Vegas 50 25 19 6 0 56 Edmonton 48 25 18 4 1 55 Vancouver 47 25 18 3 1 54 San Jose 49 21 24 3 1 46 Anaheim 47 18 24 4 1 41 Los Angeles 49 18 26 3 2 41 Wednesday’s games Chicago 4, Montreal 1 Philadelphia 4, St. Louis 3, OT Thursday’s games Boston 4, Pittsburgh 1 Calgary 2, Toronto 1, SO Florida 4, Los Angeles 3 NY Rangers 3, NY Islanders 2 Montreal 4, Philadelphia 1 Washington 5, New Jersey 2 Columbus 3, Carolina 2 Vegas 4, Ottawa 2 Anaheim 4, Nashville 2 Minnesota 3, Tampa Bay 2 Buffalo 4, Dallas 1 Colorado 4, San Jose 0 Arizona at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

Friday’s games Pittsburgh at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Anaheim at Carolina, 7:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.

GF GA 163 129 168 136 174 159 170 155 144 150 150 153 125 161 102 183 GF GA 171 140 162 129 134 122 152 128 127 126 151 149 155 153 126 168 GF GA 155 129 168 137 125 113 145 140 141 153 154 153 141 159 GF GA 142 128 133 142 155 151 148 150 155 147 129 163 120 149 124 154

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Chris Kreider scored a power-play goal with 24.6 seconds left in the third period as the visiting New York Rangers edged the Islanders, 3-2, on Thursday night in Uniondale, N.Y. Zibanejad and Tony DeAngelo also scored as the Rangers beat their local rivals for the second time this week – the Rangers won 6-2 on Monday – and for the fourth time in five games overall.

Josh Bailey and Anthony Beauvillier scored for the Islanders, who have lost three of four (1-2-1). Goalie Semyon Varlamov recorded 25 saves.

Capitals 5, Devils 2 Alex Ovechkin finished with a hat trick as Washington defeated visiting New Jersey.

Ovechkin now has 31 goals this season, including five in the last two games. That was the 25th hat trick of his career, which tops all active players.

Ovechkin has 689 career goals, one behind Mario Lemieux, who is in 10th place on the alltime list.

Goalie Ilya Samsonov finished with 32 saves and won his ninth consecutive start as the Caps gained some revenge against the Devils, who beat them 5-1 last weekend. Wayne Simmonds and Blake Coleman (shorthanded) scored for the Devils.

Canadiens 4, Flyers 1 Ilya Kovalchuk scored two goals and Tomas Tatar added one goal and two assists as visiting Montreal defeated Philadelphia.

Artturi Lehkonen had one goal and Phillip Danault three assists for the Canadiens, who were 2-8-1 in their previous 11 games. Canadiens goaltender Carey Price made 40 saves, the fourth time this season he has stopped at least 40 shots in a game.

Joel Farabee scored the lone goal for the Flyers, who had their two-game winning streak snapped. Philadelphia suffered just its fourth regulation loss at home, where they are 15-4-4.

Sabres 4, Stars 1 Linus Ullmark stopped 28 shots in his first win over Dallas, Jack Eichel extended the NHL’s longest active point streak and Buffalo beat the hosts.

Jimmy Vesey, Rasmus Dahlin, Michael Frolik and Zemgus Girgensons netted goals, and Kyle Okposo contributed two assists.

Eichel assisted on Vesey’s

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New York Rangers left wing Chris Kreider (20) scores the game winning goal against New York Islanders goaltender Semyon Varlamov (40) during Thursday’s game at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

tally to extend his point streak to nine games. The streak is the longest current one in the NHL after Toronto’s Mitchell Marner was held pointless in the Maple Leafs’ 2-1 shootout loss to Calgary.

Bruins 4, Penguins 1 Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand scored the last half of four unanswered goals as the Boston Bruins beat the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins 4-1 in a testy affair Thursday.

Sean Kuraly and Par Lindholm also tallied, and Karson Kuhlman and David Pastrnak each had two assists as the Bruins won for the fourth time in their last six games. Jaroslav Halak stopped 29 shots in net.

Sidney Crosby scored 24 seconds in for the Penguins, who were blanked the rest of the way. Tristan Jarry made 26 saves as Pittsburgh had a fourgame winning streak snapped.

The first of two games in four days between the clubs featured 13 penalties, including two matching sets of roughing calls. Torey Krug and Patric Hornqvist dropped the gloves late in the second period and were assessed fighting majors.

Flames 2, Leafs 1 (SO) Matthew Tkachuk scored the only goal of the shootout and visiting Calgary defeated Toronto.

It was the sixth win in the past seven games for the Flames, who have defeated the Maple Leafs twice this season.

Derek Ryan scored in the second period for the Flames.

William Nylander tied the game for the Maple Leafs with a power-play goal in the third

period.

Ducks 4, Predators 2 Rickard Rakell and Josh Manson each had a goal and an assist, and visiting Anaheim ended a season-high, fourgame point-free streak with a win against Nashville.

Derek Grant scored shorthanded in his first game back from injury, Adam Henrique also scored, and Ryan Getzlaf and Cam Fowler each had two assists for the Ducks. Anaheim’s only other win since Dec. 27 came in a 5-4 shootout victory against the visiting Predators on Jan. 5.

Viktor Arvidsson and Mikael Granlund scored, and Juuse Saros made 23 saves for Nashville, which missed a chance to win three in a row for the first time since late October.

Golden Knights 4, Senators 2 Mark Stone had a goal and an assist in his return to Ottawa and Marc-Andre Fleury had 33 saves while moving into a tie for fifth on the NHL’s all-time wins list as visiting Vegas won in Peter DeBoer’s head coaching debut.

DeBoer, fired by the San Jose Sharks on Dec. 11, replaced Gerard Gallant, who was fired on Wednesday morning. DeBoer picked up his 416th coaching victory (416-329-111). Vegas is his fourth head coaching stop.

The victory snapped a fourgame losing streak for Vegas.

It was the 458th career victory for Fleury, who snapped a personal three-game losing streak while moving into a tie with Henrik Lundqvist of the New York Rangers. Martin Brodeur

holds the record with 691 wins.

Wild 3, Lightning 2 Zach Parise scored his teamleading 17th goal and backup Alex Stalock was solid in net as Minnesota snapped a fourgame losing streak with its victory over Tampa Bay in Saint Paul, Minn.

Joel Eriksson Ek and Ryan Suter each scored secondperiod goals for the Wild, who showed plenty of fight and spirit to win for just the second time in eight games.

Nikita Kucherov’s second goal of the night and 20th of the season off the power play with 10:28 left in regulation got Tampa Bay within 3-2. Minnesota, though, hung tough and held off the Lightning, who have dropped two of three following their season-high 10-game winning streak.

Avalanche 4, Sharks 0 Philipp Grubauer stopped 27 shots, Matt Calvert scored a shorthanded goal, and Colorado beat San Jose in Denver.

Valeri Nichushkin, Cale Makar and Ryan Graves also scored for Colorado, which snapped a four-game skid (0-2-2) and beat the Sharks for the first time in its last five regular-season meetings. San Jose outlasted the Avalanche in the second round of last year’s Western Conference playoffs with a home win in Game 7.

The shutout was Grubauer’s first of the season and 10th of his career. He has blanked San Jose twice in six matchups, and also blanked the Sharks in Game 4 of their playoff series last spring. Martin Jones had 34 saves for San Jose, which has lost two straight.

Canucks 3, Coyotes 1 Jake Virtanan scored the tiebreaking goal in the second period as Vancouver extended its home winning streak to seven games with a victory against Arizona.

Bo Horvat and Tanner Pearson also scored for the Canucks, Elias Pettersson had two assists and goaltender Jacob Markstrom made 34 saves.

Vancouver won for the 10th time in its past 13 games.

Christian Dvorak scored the lone goal for the Coyotes. Adin Hill, making his third straight start after lower-body injuries to goalies Darcy Kuemper and Antti Raanta, stopped 22 of 24 shots.

Blue Jackets 3, Hurricanes 2 Nick Foligno made up for a blunder moments earlier by scoring the game-winning goal with 1:41 remaining as Columbus defeated visiting Carolina.

Foligno’s unassisted tally allowed the Blue Jackets to win for the fifth time in their last six games. Emil Bemstrom and Cam Atkinson, who returned from a 12-game absence, also scored for the Blue Jackets.

Even though Columbus goalie Elvis Merzlikins’ shutout streak ended at two games, he racked up 32 saves. Martin Necas and Jordan Staal scored for the Hurricanes, who have lost two games in a row.

Panthers 4, Kings 3 Emergency call-up Sam Montembeault came off the bench in the first period and recorded 23 saves, backstopping Florida to a win over Los Angeles in Sunrise, Fla. With top goalie Sergei Bobrovsky out for his second straight game due to an upper-body injury, backup Chris Driedger got the nod and stopped all four shots he faced before leaving with an injury in the first period.

Evgenii Dadonov reached the 20-goal plateau, and Frank Vatrano, Mike Matheson and Brian Boyle also tallied for the Panthers, who won for the seventh time in 10 games and ended their January home schedule with a 3-1-0 mark.

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Devin Booker scored 29 points, and Phoenix seized control in the third quarter and pulled away for a 12198 rout of host New York on Thursday night.

Ricky Rubio returned from a one-game absence (personal reasons) and collected 25 points, 13 assists and eight rebounds as Phoenix won for the sixth time in 10 games.

Deandre Ayton also turned in a dynamic game, finishing with a season-high 26 points and career-high 21 rebounds.

Julius Randle scored 26 points to lead the Knicks.

Marcus Morris Sr. returned from a neck injury that kept him out for five games, and he added 17 points, but the Knicks lost for the seventh time in eight games. New York also lost rookie RJ Barrett to a sprained right ankle in the third quarter.

Pelicans 138, Jazz 132 (OT)

Brandon Ingram scored a career-high 49 points and won a shootout with Donovan Mitchell as the host New Orleans Pelicans ended the Utah Jazz’s 10-game winning streak with a 138-132 overtime victory Thursday night.

Ingram made five free throws as the Pelicans outscored the Jazz, who lost for the second time in 17 games, 16-10 in overtime despite falling behind by five points midway through the period.

Former Jazz center Derrick Favors added 21 points and 11 rebounds as New Orleans won for the 10th time in 14 games. E’Twaun Moore scored 16 points, including a go-ahead layup in overtime, Nickeil Alexander-Walker scored 12 and Frank Jackson had 10.

Mitchell tied his careerhigh with 46 points, Bojan Bogdanovic scored 26, Rudy Gobert had 17 points and 14 rebounds before fouling out in overtime, Jordan Clarkson

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Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker (1) dribbles against New York Knicks guard RJ Barrett (9) during Thursday’s game at Madison Square Garden.

scored 15 and Joe Ingles had 12.

Bucks 128, Celtics 123 Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 32 points and Khris Middleton added 23 as Milwaukee started fast and had just enough in the end,

opening a double-digit lead five minutes into the game and earning a victory over visiting Boston.

Donte DiVincenzo scored a career-high 19 points and Brook Lopez added 16 as the Bucks extended their

winning streak to five games while winning for the 10th time in their last 11 contests.

Kemba Walker scored 40 points with 11 rebounds and Marcus Smart added 24 as the Celtics fell for the second time in two nights and lost for the fifth time in their last seven games. The Celtics lost to Detroit on Wednesday night.

Nuggets 134, Warriors 131 (OT) Mason Plumlee slammed down a pair of dunks and Will Barton nailed a backbreaking 3-pointer in an eight-point run in overtime as short-handed Denver outlasted host Golden State for a come-from-behind victory in San Francisco.

Playing the second night of a back-to-back without injured starters Paul Millsap, Gary Harris and Jamal Murray, the Nuggets completed a two-day sweep despite trailing by as many as 19 points in the first half, by 12 with 8:44

to play in regulation and on two separate occasions in the five-minute extra session.

Barton finished with a season-best 31 points and Malik Beasley had a season-best 27 for the Nuggets. Alec Burks led Golden State with 25 off the bench.

Clippers 122, Magic 95 Kawhi Leonard scored a game-high 32 points, and host Los Angeles rolled past Orlando.

Leonard, who scored at least 30 points for the fourth consecutive game, connected on 12 of 20 shots from the floor and 4 of 7 3-pointers. Montrezl Harrell had 21 points for the Clippers, who won for the fourth time in five games.

Nikola Vucevic had 22 points and nine rebounds for the Magic, while Aaron Gordon finished with 20 points on 8-of-11 shooting. Evan Fournier, who sat out the Lakers’ win with a right quad contusion, scored 15 points.

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Klocke Estate Holdings LLC (formerly Drumlin Field Ventures) Special Exception Amendment for a Farm Distillery: Tax Map # 131 . 00 – 01 – 45 . 120 Located at 2554 Cty. Rte. 27.

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trict are holding a special election on January 28, 2020 between the hours of 6:00 P.M. and 9:00 P.M. at the Copake Fire District Firehouse located at 390 County Route 7A, Copake, NY 12516 for the purpose of voting on whether to approve the Resolution passed by the Board of Fire Commissioners at its regularly scheduled meeting on January 14, 2020 to purchase a new pickup truck and refurbishing and repurposing the 1996 pickup and the 2005 support vehicle.

IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED by the Board of Fire Commissioner’s that they wish to purchase a 2020 ž ton four-wheel drive crew cab pickup with utility/work body and refurbish and repurpose the 1996 fire utility vehicle and refurbish and repurpose the 2005 support vehicle replacing the current 2008 support vehicle in poor repair.

WHEREAS it will be necessary to borrow $90,000.00 to be used toward the purchase of the aforementioned vehicle and the refurbishing and repurposing of the 1996 pickup and 2005 support vehicle that it will be necessary to issue a bond and/or serial bond at the prevailing rate of interest to purchase said vehicle. Said authorization to issue a bond and/or serial bond or statutory installment bond is subject to a mandatory referendum to be conducted on the 28 day of January, 2020.

WHEREAS the Board of Fire Commissioners heretofore will establish a Capital Reserve Fund from which they propose to spend $90,000.00 toward the purchase and refurbishment of said vehicles.

All voters registered with the Columbia County Board of Elections on or before January 24th and who are residents of the Fire District for 30 days preceding the referendum shall be eligible to vote.

ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS TOWN OF STUYVESANT STUYVESANT, NEW YORK 12173 NOTICE OF MEETING CANCELLATION The Town of Stuyvesant Zoning Board of Appeals has cancelled its monthly meeting scheduled for Wednesday, January 22, 2020.

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49ers’ George Kittle a self-made star who leads 49ers with both brutality and bliss Adam Kilgore The Washington Post

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — On college football’s signing day in 2012, Iowa coaches sat around a fax machine and watched it spit out national letters-of-intent. Each piece of paper represented months of diligence and provided its own measure of satisfaction, until one name prompted only sideways glances and confusion.

“We’re all like, ‘Who is George Kittle?’ “ Hawkeyes assistant LeVar Woods said this week. “We hadn’t even been recruiting him. Who is this guy?”

The question - who is that guy? - followed Kittle through the start of his professional career, as he knifed through secondaries, bowled over tacklers, cleaved running lanes and generally produced a swath of mayhem in his wake. Nobody is asking anymore. Kittle has become one of the best tight ends and most destructive forces in the NFL, a grinning, maniacal face of the San Francisco 49ers’ march to the NFC Championship, which they will host Sunday at 6:40 p.m. ET against the Green Bay Packers.

Kittle caught 85 passes for 1,043 yards and five touchdowns in 14 games, and receiving may be only the second-best part of his game. Kittle is a devastating run blocker, equal parts dominant and willing.

He grades his performance solely on how he blocks. Most tight ends ask for the ball.

Kittle sometimes tells Coach Kyle Shanahan which player on the opposing defense he wants to crush, and Shanahan finds a play call to accommodate him.

“The run plays he suggests are kind of half-thoughts,” Shanahan said. “They’re more to, how he can hit someone?”

Kittle hurt his ankle in last weekend’s victory over the Minnesota Vikings. He stood on the sidelines at Wednesday’s practice in sweats and a knit cap. He participated in full Thursday and left no doubt he would play.

“I feel fabulous,” he said. “Thanks for asking.”

The 49ers are playing for a trip to the Super Bowl, but those who know him would have expected the same response if Sunday’s game was two-hand touch in the backyard. Kittle plays with both brutality and bliss. On one play this season, he laughed while pile-driving an Atlanta Falcons safety onto his back in the end zone.

On a game-sealing catch, a New Orleans Saints defender grabbed his face mask and Kittle dragged him for 15 yards. Inside his left forearm, he has a tattoo of Heath Ledger’s Joker.

“The mentality of being an [butt]kicker,” 49ers offensive tackle Mike McGlinchey said. “That mentality has never changed for him.”

Kittle reached stardom from an unlikely launching point. He was a lanky, 185-pound wide receiver and safety at Norman High in Oklahoma who, in his words, “didn’t get recruited.” He always believed, from the time he was a little boy, he would be an NFL player. That belief saved him at a point when he could have squandered his career. It led him to ask of himself: Who is George Kittle?

Kittle’s father, Bruce, played offensive line at Iowa and became a football coach.

He moved the family to Norman after he

got a job on Oklahoma’s staff. Most of Kittle’s recruiting attention came from service academies - he was a near-4.0 student, high school coach Greg Nation said - and FCS schools.

Kittle always dreamed about playing for the Hawkeyes. Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops called Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz, who had coached Bruce Kittle as an Iowa assistant, and recommended he consider Kittle. Kittle would have walked on to play at his father’s alma mater. When a lastminute scholarship came available, Ferentz offered it to Kittle.

The Iowa coaches who never tracked Kittle in high school quickly realized they had something in their mysterious recruit; they just didn’t know what. They considered playing him on both offense and defense. Was he a wide receiver? A linebacker? Could he add enough weight to play defensive end? They just knew he could run like hell, and he approached football with the pure zeal of a dog chasing a stick.

Coaches landed on making him a tight end, and his speed stood out. He torched defenders while playing on the scout team with quarterback C.J. Beathard, whom the 49ers would eventually draft in the same class as Kittle. When Kittle covered kicks on the scout team, nobody could stop him.

Despite his raw talent, Kittle redshirted as a freshman and barely saw the field his first two seasons in uniform. His goal remained to make the NFL, but he recognized he had veered off track. He partied too much, drank too much and hung out with friends when he should have been studying football. He had to ask himself a basic question. Who did he want to be?

“You just got to look in the mirror and see what the problem is,” Kittle said. “I just looked in the mirror and said, ‘This isn’t what you want. It’s your fault. So fix it.’ “ One moment served as a hinge. Pat Angerer, a former Iowa linebacker who played for the Indianapolis Colts, returned to campus as a coaching intern after Kittle’s sophomore season. Ferentz told the team Angerer barely played for three years, but he changed his behavior and became a second-round NFL draft pick.

“I asked him, ‘What did you do?’ “ Kittle said. “He said, ‘I stopped drinking so much. I stopped going out so much. I stopped fighting people when I got drunk and focused on football.’ I said, ‘Well, I’ll do the same thing.’ I didn’t really fight anybody, but I changed all that up. And I am where I am.”

Kittle had caught six passes in his career.

But he had packed on about 40 pounds of muscle since high school without losing any speed. At one spring practice, Kittle squared off against a senior leader who had made All-Big Ten the prior season.

“George came off the ball and put this guy on his back,” said Woods, who became Iowa’s tight ends coach that season. “Everyone started paying attention at that point. Everyone was like, ‘This is for real.’ “ Kittle took off. He flashed his speed as a pass-catcher, averaging 14.4 yards per catch in his two seasons as a starter, but Iowa mostly used him as a blocker in its runheavy offense. He came to love blocking, honing technique but mostly developing a passion for it. Iowa practices included endless sessions of 9-on-7 run-blocking drills.

“If you don’t enjoy it, you’re going to be miserable,” Kittle said. “So I just enjoyed it.”

During games, Kittle would celebrate blocks more than catches. “When he’d make a big block, he’d get up and he’d start rolling his arm like he’s shooting dice or something like that,” Woods said, laughing. Teammates voted him a captain.

In one game early in his senior season, against North Dakota State, coaches marveled at his ferocity.

“There were times when George was taking a guy over the bench,” Woods said.

“There’s a couple pictures where if you were to watch that tape, you’re like, ‘Man, what the heck? He is trying to kill this guy.’ “ Kittle finished his college career with 10 touchdowns but only 48 catches. The 49ers studied his traits more than his stats.

His combine numbers were elite, and his film showed a powerful blocker perfectly suited to Shanahan’s scheme. The 49ers graded Kittle as one of the best tight ends in the draft.

“You see the way Kittle runs, the way he moves, he’s always going forward and coiling into people,” Shanahan said, waving with his arm as if mimicking an airplane taking off. “It helps in his routes, but it really helps him push people.”

Because they believed other teams were overlooking him based on his college production, they estimated he would be picked in the third round. The way their draft broke, other needs superseded tight end. They took cornerback Ahkello Witherspoon and Beathard, Kittle’s college teammate, in the third round and nabbed running back Joe Williams in the fourth.

By the time the 146th overall pick arrived, eight tight ends had been chosen, including Jake Butt by the Denver Broncos with the 145th.

“We were just shocked he was still sitting there,” Shanahan said.

Kittle became their starting tight end as a rookie. Last year, he gained 1,377 yards on 88 catches and made second-team allpro. This year he made the first team and became one of the faces of San Francisco’s youthful, rambunctious powerhouse.

Outside Levi’s Stadium, one banner shows Kittle squeezing a football and trying to scowl, but really smiling.

In Woods’ office at Iowa, he keeps a picture of the time Kittle bear-hugged him so hard on the sideline at the end of a victory he lifted the coach off the ground. Woods thought he had broken a rib. Kittle then did the same thing to Woods’ son, who was 8 at the time. “You can see the smile on my son’s face and on George’s face,” Woods said.

Kittle stills plays as if he savors every second on the field, every chance to be an butt-kicker. Even at his lowest point, when nobody else saw him as an NFL player, Kittle did.

“If I wouldn’t have felt that,” Kittle said, “I probably wouldn’t have changed anything.”

Kittle recognized what held him back, made the necessary changes and became one of the best in the world at what he does. He loves the least glamorous part of his job the most. When things are hard, he is at his best. That is who George Kittle is.

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Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) against the Houston Texans in the AFC Divisional Round playoff game at Arrowhead Stadium.

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We were denied a pair of 1-2 matchups when Tennessee upset Baltimore, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t get a fun Championship Sunday.

The Titans are this season’s out-of-nowhere team, and now the sixth seed will look for a third straight road win to punch its ticket to Miami for Super Bowl LIV. Can it happen?

Sure. Will it? Not so sure.

Both games Sunday are rematches from the second half of the season, so there’s some familiarity between the teams.

There are only three games left in the season, so enjoy the final two before the biggest of them all and don’t forget to DVR the new season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” It should be the perfect nightcap of a pretty, pretty, pretty good Championship Sunday.

AFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME TITANS (11-7) AT CHIEFS (13-4) TV: CBS, 3:05 p.m.

Chiefs by 7; O/U: 53 The Chiefs, like the Titans, have won nine games since the start of Week 7. They were able to stay in Arrowhead for the playoffs after the Dolphins shocked the Patriots in Week 17 and the Titans won at topseeded Baltimore in the divisional round. Patrick Mahomes and an improved defense have led the Chiefs to seven straight wins and covers. The last time they lost and didn’t cover? Yep, you guessed it: A 35-32 loss at Tennessee in Week 10.

Considering the Chiefs’ high-powered attack — how many other teams can turn a 24-0 deficit into a 28-24 halftime lead and win, 51-31, as they did against the Texans?

— it’s hard to see the Titans beating them twice. Tennessee will lean on Derrick Henry, who ran for 182 yards at New England and 195 at Baltimore.

But this game will come down to whether Ryan Tannehill can make big throws. He’s 9-3 since

taking over but threw for just 88 and 72 yards in the playoff wins. Mike Vrabel’s guys are gritty and are still getting no respect.

All the pressure is on Andy Reid, who has lost his last four vs. the Titans, including in the wild-card round in KC two years ago. Tennessee has been the story of these playoffs, but I feel as if this is Reid’s time to lead KC to its first big game since Super Bowl IV. But it will be close.

The pick: Titans The score: Chiefs 31, Titans 27

NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME PACKERS (14-3) AT 49ERS (14-3) TV: Fox, 6:40 p.m.

49ers by 7.5; O/U: 46.5 When San Fran hosted Green Bay on SNF in Week 12, the game was over before you got comfortable on the couch.

The 49ers forced an early Aaron Rodgers fumble to set up a touchdown en route to a 23-0 halftime lead in a 37-8 smackdown. San Fran, the best passing defense in the NFL (169.2 yards per game), held Rodgers to a season-low 104 yards.

Now, don’t expect another rout. Not with a trip to the Super Bowl on the line. Unfortunately for the Pack, the 49ers have gotten healthy at just the right time. Adding edge rusher Dee Ford to an already impenetrable line anchored by Nick Bosa will be the difference. The 49ers are stacked everywhere on defense — the main reason they started 8-0 and locked up home field — and it will deliver again as the team punches the franchise’s ticket to their seventh Super Bowl. Kyle Shanahan is the best play-caller in the NFL, and his run-game schemes will keep the Packers guessing. That, plus the 49ers’ elite defense, makes me feel comfortable in laying the points.

The pick: 49ers The score: 49ers 30, Packers 20

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C-GCC From B1 make extra passes and settle for deep shots, instead of driving to the paint where fouls were not getting called. Having to take lower-percentage shots allowed the Generals to climb back into the game.

Herkimer cut the Twins’ lead to 74-73 at the free throw line at the 2:25 mark, with the Twins in trouble with seven team fouls.

Myles Ukoh delivers in the clutch with a huge blocked shot and sent the ball out of bounds off of the shooter.

The Twins could not turn that into points however, and committed a charge on the other end.

Inside of a minute, Twins’ Zach Hedgepeth knocks down a three-pointer but Generals’ Dante Griffin hits a three of his own on the ensuing possession with 57.6 on the clock.

Thirty seconds of game time, two missed layups, a few free-

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Columbia-Greene’s Zack Hedgepeth (11) defends against Herkimer’s Jaylen Warmack during Thursday’s Region III game.

throws later, the score was tied at 79 with 25.1 left, as the Twins call a timeout.

Columbia-Greene then commits a five-second violation on the in-bound play, turning it over to the Generals for a final shot.

After repeatedly screaming at his teammates not to foul, Ukoh does just that, and Herkimer makes both free throws to go up, 81-79.

After a final timeout by the Twins, Ukoh took the final shot

from beyond the arc, hitting it off glass and the rim at the buzzer.

Herkimer improves to 10-5 and Columbia-Greene falls to 5-11 after this classic, wellfought, game on Thursday afternoon.

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Columbia-Greene’s Jason Davis (10) dribbles around a screen from Myles Ukoh as Herkimer’s Jayden Stephen’s defends during Thursday’s Region III game.

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Thursday. His tenure lasted just 77 days and ended before spring training started.

“We met with Carlos last night and again this morning and agreed to mutually part ways,” COO Jeff Wilpon and GM Brodie Van Wagenen said in a joint statement. “This was not an easy decision.”

A nine-page report from Major League Baseball commissioner Robert Manfred, released Monday, cited him as one of the Astros players involved in the 2017 sign-stealing scandal.

“At a meeting this morning with Jeff and Brodie we mutually agreed to part ways.

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The two looked back at some accomplishments toward the organization’s stated goal of promoting and preserving hunting and fishing in Columbia County, by presenting awards to some key members who helped them in that mission.

Award recipients included, Columbia County Clerk, Holly Tanner, ECO Jeff Cox, Forest Ranger Chris DiCintio, Youth Outdoor Education Coordinator Kathy Burke, Trout in the Classroom’s Theresa Rossi, Fay Johnson, and for their work in the “Hunters Helping the Hungry” program, Randy Plass, and Gary and Veronica

Emma Willard 55, Germantown 38

TROY — Emma Shields scored 29 points to spark Emma Willard to a 55-38 victory over Germantown in Thursday’s girls basketball game.

Molly Zahleuter had 18 points for the Jesters, who rang up quarterly leads of 1810, 36-16 and 43-23.

Riley Gibbons’ 12 points topped Germantown. Megan Dunn contributed 11.

GERMANTOWN (38): Ljutich 2-0-4, Denninger 2-0-4, Dunn 4-0-11, Gibbons 3-6-12, Wyant 2-0-5, Bathrick 1-0-2.

Totals 14-6-38.

3-pointers: Dunn 3, Wyant.

EMMA WILLARD (55): Emma Shields 13-1-29, Zahnleuter 7-1-18, Harris 0-1-1, Kaur 3-0-6, Raji 0-1-1. Totals 23-555.

EAST GREENBUSH — Kevin Ackerman rolled a 205-571 as Maple Hill blanked Taconic Hills, 5-0, in Thursday’s Patroon Conference bowling match.

Shanw Miller had a 219-550 and Austin Smith added a 186513 for the Wildcats.

Anthony Genovese rolled a 141-400 for the Titans.

Maple Hill had games of 940, 983 and 930 for a total pinfall of 2,853. Taconic hills had games of 698, 709 and 581 for 1,988.

Catskill 5, Cairo-Durham 0 CATSKILL — Michael Jubie fired a 255-690 to spark Catskill to a 5-0 victory over Cairo-Durham in Thursday’s Patroon Conference bowling match.

Max Marchesani rolled a 203-551 for the Cats (10-0, 500 in points).

Chatham 4, Coxsackie-Athens 1 EAST GREENBUSH — Andrew Duso’s 266-643 highlighted Chatham’s 4-1 Patroon Conference bowling victory over Coxsackie-Athens on Thursday.

Tyler Beaudry had a 213578 for the Panthers.

Leo Woytowich led C-A with a 194-568.

agreed this decision is in the best interest of the team,” Beltran said Thursday.

Beltran also apologized in a separate statement to ESPN. “As a veteran player I should’ve recognized the severity of the issue, and truly regret the actions that were taken.”

“I’m very sorry. It’s not who I am as a father, a husband, a teammate and as an educator.”

“Considering the circumstances, it became clear to all parties that it was not in anyone’s best interest for Carlos to move forward as Manager of the New York Mets,” Wilpon and Van Wagenen’s joint statement said. “We believe that Carlos was honest and forthcoming with us.”

The departure came after Astros owner Jim Crane fired GM Jeff Luhnow and manager

A.J. Hinch on Monday and the Red Sox fired manager Alex Cora on Tuesday. All three were named in the commissioner’s report as accountable for the scheme. The league decided it would not punish Astros players for the “playerdriven” illegal sign-stealing. It initially seemed like the ideal loophole for Beltran to sidestep punishment.

Instead, Beltran entered baseball purgatory the moment he remained the only name from the commissioner’s report that still held a position on a coaching staff.

Beltran and the Mets had two options: A) Part ways.

B) Allow a constant source of distraction to follow Beltran’s every move.

Faced with an impossible choice, the Mets and Beltran chose option A.

“I couldn’t let myself be a distraction for the team,” Beltran said. “I wish the entire organization success in the future.”

Beltran is a highly regarded baseball mind who most recently worked as a Yankees special assistant. “We are confident that this will not be the final chapter in his baseball career,” Wilpon and Van Wagenen said. “We remain excited about the talent on this team and are committed to reaching our goals of winning now and in the future.”

Beltran echoed Mets ownership, telling ESPN that “I hope that at some point in time, I’ll have the opportunity to return to this game that I love so much.”

Van Wagenen hired Beltran as the replacement for Mickey Callaway in November. Two weeks later, The Athletic’s Ken

Rosenthal and Evan Drellich exposed Houston’s trashcan banging system and brought Beltran — who was a player on the 2017 Astros championship team — into question.

Beltran publicly denied his involvement in using technology and claimed he did not have any knowledge about the center-field camera that the team used to steal signs. On Monday, the commissioner’s report confirmed he and other Astros players had knowledge of the entire scheme.

“Approximately two months into the 2017 season, a group of players, including Carlos Beltran, discussed that the team could improve on decoding opposing teams’ signs and communicating the signs to the batter,” the report says.

The Mets will now rush to find a replacement for Beltran in the 27 days before pitchers

and catchers report to spring training. Immediate and possible candidates include ESPN analyst Eduardo Perez (who was a Mets finalist before the job went to Beltran), veteran skipper Buck Showalter and current Mets quality control coach Luis Rojas.

Beyond looking for a quick replacement, the next Mets manager will have a lot of catching up to do. Beltran had spent the offseason, from the moment he was hired in November, getting to know Mets players from the minors all the way to the big leagues. Amed Rosario told the Daily News that he and Beltran were in “constant communication” this winter, discussing ways in which the shortstop could improve. Certainly, some of the players Beltran already became familiar with will be upset by his departure.

Peters.

Special expressions of heartfelt gratitude were extended to Dave Carpenter who mentored Jim Bashford throughout his life, and a presentation of a Lifetime Achievement Award to Vinny DuBoise for his tireless efforts in support of our veterans as well as with landmark trout habitat restoration. I’m happy to report Vinny attended the event to receive the award and says he is doing very well with his recovery.

After the award presentation, newly elected President Kevin Hill officially took the reins, (and the microphone), from now past President Jim Bashford. He thanked the prior officers for their dedication and hard work and vowed to continue to build upon their successes as well as targeting some new areas in support of hunting, fishing, trapping and the shooting sports.

At the banquet and upon a subsequent interview with the new president, Kevin outlined a few key federation goals: *Continue youth programs and strengthen youth recruitment to hunting, fishing, trapping, and the shooting sports *Increase and enhance land/water access for hunters, trappers, and fishermen *Increase membership and participation of active members of organized sportsmen’s groups *Maximize the impact of the sporting public’s vote in support of issues affecting hunting, fishing, trapping, and the second amendment Kevin indicated his vision is to build upon the success of his predecessors while bringing additional focus upon other issues in support of the federation’s goals.

He further stressed that the success and strength of organizations like the Columbia

County Sportsmen’s Federation cannot be fully realized without the support of its members and partners in pursuit of common goals.

We wish Kevin and all of his team success in that effort in the coming years Happy Hunting, Fishing and Trapping until next time.

information contact Event Chairman Eric Nelson Jr. at 518-339-3557 or Jim Bertram at 518-965-3971.

Canaan Conservation Club’s 21st Annual Hardwater Fishing Derby — February 15 This event will take place (ice conditions permitting) on February 15th from 6:00 am to 1:00 pm at Queechy Lake, Canaan, NY. Register online starting January 15 at https:// canaanconservationclub. weebly.com/ or, in-person at 6 a.m. on the day of the event at Adams Point Beach. Entry fee for adults 16 and over is $15 and $5 for kids 15 and under. Three cash prizes for largest trout, perch, pickerel, and crappie with a gas-powered auger standing in for the grand prize. Other prizes include hand augers, tip-ups and jigging poles. For more information contact Julia Horst at 518-567-4302 or by email at canaanconservationclub@

yahoo.com Save the Date: February 15, 2020 The Catskill Mountain F&G Club/Stony Clove F&G Club Youth Ice Fishing Derby This event is scheduled for Saturday, February 15; ice conditions permitting.

Sign-in begins at 9 a.m. with youth fishing from 10:00 am until noon. There will be prizes for all kids attending, plus refreshments will be available.

For more information call Bob Monteleone at 518-488-0240.

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

285 — George Hillenbrand (Catskill) pinned Tyler Goettinger, :46.

Coxsackie-Athens 82, Berlin 3 BERLIN — CoxsackieAthens won every individual match but one in rolling to an 82-3 victory over Berlin in Thursday’s Patroon Conference wrestling match.

Results 99 — Neil Murphy (CA) won by forfeit; 106 — Gage Decker (CA) won by forfeit; 113 — Aidan Scarpinati (CA) pinned Sarah Roy, :43; 120 — Logan Campbell (CA) pinned Joshua Zlotnick, :46; 126 — Josiah Decker (CA) pinned Jared Cook, 1:20; 132 — Noah Bartels (CA) pinned Shane Sprague, 5:06; 138 — Schyler

Caringi (CA) won by major decision over Anthony Prather, 11-1; 145 — Joseph Martinez (CA) pinned TJ Smith, :47; 152 — Anthony Iamunno (CA) pinned Joshua Wescott, 3:54; 160 — Colin Riley (CA) pinned Josh Bosso, 4:00; 170 — Andrew Riley (CA) pinned Angelo Capozzi, :46; 182 — Colby Lord (CA) pinned Phillip Oakes, :31; 195 — Ryan Peabody (CA) won by forfeit; 220 — Seth Dillworth (CA) pinned Kevin MacVeigh, :42; 285 — Jesse Cameron (Berlin) pinned Jesse Pickett, 1:14 (Berlin unsportsmanlike -3.0).

BASKETBALL GIRLS

NEWS AND NOTES Ghent Sportsmen’s Annual Team Rabbit Hunt — February 8 This 4-man team event will start at 7:00 am and end at 3:00 pm on Saturday February 8th. Sign-up from 6:30 am to 8:00 am. Doughnuts, coffee, food and beverages will be available. Cash prizes will be awarded to winning teams.

Points accumulation are tallied as follows: 3 points per partridge/ (grouse), 2 points for per rabbit, and 1 point per squirrel harvested. For more

3-pointers: Zahnleuter 3, E. Shields 2.

BOWLING PATROON Maple Hill 5, Taconic Hills 0

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Birthday bouquet arrives in shabby condition Dear Abby, Is there a delicate way for me to tell my boyfriend not to use the same online floral delivery service again? The birthday bouquet he had delivered to me arrived with limp, wilted, torn petals and leaves and DEAR ABBY broken stems. It was one of those box-of-flowers deliveries.

I doubt my boyfriend realized they would not arrive in a vase and arranged by a florist.

Instead, they had been packed in a box, without water, with the vase packed alongside, delivered by a regular package courier.

I usually send him a photo of my bouquet along with my heartfelt thanks, and while I thanked him as usual, I did not send a picture of the bouquet because I knew he would feel bad — both about the lackluster arrangement, and the money he had spent on them.

I found what I believe was the intended arrangement on the website, and it was lovely — a far cry from what was delivered to me. I love my twice-a-year flowers (birthday and Christmas), and I don’t want to come across as critical or ungrateful. I am blessed to have such a thoughtful partner.

If flowers were just a one-time gift, I would not even consider mentioning it. However, with Valentine’s Day (and another flower delivery) approaching, I wonder if I should let my boyfriend know that it might be better to use a local florist to ensure he is getting his money’s worth. Or should I just cross my fingers that it was a one-off?

Ungrateful Girlfriend

JEANNE PHILLIPS

Tell your boyfriend why you didn’t send him a photo of the flowers he sent as you usually

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do. He has a right to know, and it will not make you appear ungrateful. He may be able to get a refund if the order was mishandled and he had ordered an arrangement in a vase. And if the vendor is not forthcoming, he may choose to deal with a different one next time. Please give him the option.

Dear Abby, I’m one half of a female best friend duo in our early 30s. We both live with clinical depression, and my friend also has ADHD. During most of our 20s, neither of us did a good job of coping with these issues, but we were able to laugh it off together. Now, after putting in a lot of work, I’m finally in a healthy place, and I intend to continue getting better from here.

My best friend, however, is managing her own mental health as poorly as ever. She doesn’t have the interest or the motivation to help herself the way I have, and she resents when others try to talk to her about it. I sense she wishes I was like I used to be.

I’m starting to feel like being around her is no longer healthy for me, but I don’t know what to do. I don’t have many other friends.

I live out of state from my family, and I still love her dearly. How should I proceed?

Self-Helper In California

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Proceed by continuing to move forward. If you seek out new activities, you will meet more people with common interests. Do not drop her. Call her periodically to check in, and make a point of inviting her to join you in some of your new interests. However, if she refuses, do not let it deter you from doing what you must to aid in your healing. I congratulate you for finding the strength to get the help you needed.

Blondie

Shingles vaccine recommended after chicken pox exposure I never had chickenpox, although I was exposed to it in childhood when my sister had it and again with both of my children when they were young. How does that affect me regarding shingles? Am I still at risk to get it?

The overwhelming likelihood is that you did have TO YOUR chickenpox, but you may GOOD HEALTH have had such a mild case that it was never recognized as chickenpox. The virus is so contagious that, after living through three cases in family members, it is extremely likely you had the disease if you were not immune.

The clear recommendation from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other expert groups would be to get the shingles vaccine. However, some of my colleagues do check blood tests to confirm immunity. If you were the rare person to have a lack of immunity proven by blood tests, the recommendation would be to get the chickenpox vaccine followed by the new shingles vaccine. The first is a live vaccine, and the second uses only purified virus components, not live virus.

DR. KEITH ROACH

In 2006, I was working at a long-termhealth care center, and we had annual tuberculosis screenings. That year, I tested positive and was prescribed six months of isoniazid. I was told by my doctor at the time

to get a chest X-ray every three years and not to participate in any future TB screenings.

In 2007 I moved and have not worked in health care since. I’m getting conflicting information from new doctors on whether I need chest X-rays at any point. Overall, I am in good health. What is my appropriate follow-up?

The expert consensus is that as long as you feel well, you do not need any further screening tests. However, you are still at risk for developing active tuberculosis despite having been treated with the isoniazid.

Symptoms include cough, fever and weight loss. Any of these symptoms, if unexplained by something like a cold, should prompt you to see your doctor and you should ask about getting a chest X-ray. Fortunately, the risk of developing tuberculosis is very low now, perhaps 1% or 2% in your lifetime.

Different health care systems have their own rules about screening a person with a positive skin test for tuberculosis after treatment. However, studies have shown that regular chest X-rays are almost completely useless in a person with no symptoms.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You may have to do a little more digging than usual today before you come up with the answer you seek. An expert shows you the way.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Follow in the footsteps of someone you admire today; you’ll learn a great deal about yourself — and discover a new creative outlet.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — That which be-

Zits

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

Baby Blues

Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are one of the most curious individuals born under your sign, but unlike the cat who was killed by just such a trait, you’re sure to thrive because you are more than willing to delve into all manner of things for very good reasons. You consider yourself a student of life, and your way of looking at the world is warm, tolerant and accepting.

When it comes to family, you will do your best always to be there when the need arises.

Though you may travel the wide world for work or play, you will never forget where you truly belong and whom you can count on in both good times and bad. You will likely prove yourself a loyal child and have the makings of a fine parent.

Also born on this date are: Kevin Costner, actor; Danny Kaye, actor and comedian; Cary Grant, actor; Oliver Hardy, actor; A.A. Milne, author, creator of “Winnie the Pooh”; Daniel Webster, statesman and orator.

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

SUNDAY, JANUARY 19

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gins in the most casual manner is likely to become quite serious before the day is out. Can you afford to make such an investment?

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You may discover that you have much more in common with someone than you had suspected. The proof is surprising to both of you!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — The more you insist that someone do things in a certain way, the more likely he or she will be to resist you. Try a more subtle approach.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Be as thorough as you can be today, especially when looking into the causes of something that has affected your entire way of looking at the world.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — It’s unlikely that you will have all your questions answered today, but it is quite probable that others will question what you have to offer.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You may be seeing things through a lens that is not of your making — nor is it really suited to you. Try to develop a new perspective.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You cannot afford to let a project go off course at this time. Many people exert controlling influences, but yours counts most of all.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You’re waiting for someone to give you the final word on something that has been in limbo for a while, but that final word won’t change much.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — All you have to do to prevail today is answer questions honestly and do what comes naturally. Being true to yourself is all-important.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — It’s important for you to remember exactly who is on your side, who is not and those you may be able to sway before the day is out.

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THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek Get the free JUST JUMBLE app • Follow us on Twitter @PlayJumble

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

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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.

Cats Level 1

2

3

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

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” AnswersMonday) Tuesday (Answers

Yesterday’s

Jumbles: HOLLY BOUND TUSSLE HOAGIE Answer: The store was closing, and loyal customers came in on the final day for the — LAST GOOD-“BUYS”

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Solution to Friday’s puzzle

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

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(e.g., “Memory” is a song from this Broadway musical. Answer: “Cats.”)

Freshman level 1. What do the mice do when the cat is away?

2. This breed of cat is known for its blue almond-shaped eyes and long ears.

3. According to the saying, this killed the cat.

4. Mountains located in southeastern New York.

5. What is distinctive about the Manx cat?

Graduate level 6. Six-letter term for a cat with black, cream and yellowish markings.

7. What big cat is associated with the Land Rover vehicle?

8. This Looney Tunes cat was usually chasing Tweety Bird.

9. In which poem is the line “Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats”?

10. This type of cat was popularized in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”

PH.D. level 11. Provide the cat’s name on the TV cartoon “Pixie and Dixie and Mr. ____.”

12. In “Archy and ____,” Archy the cockroach is paired with this cat.

13. A seven-letter word for a group of cats.

14. Jim Davis created this comic strip cat and his owner Jon Arbuckle.

15. Except for the _____, all types of cats can retract their claws.

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Play. 2. Siamese. 3. Curiosity. 4. Catskill Mountains. 5. No tail. 6. Calico. 7.

Jaguar. 8. Sylvester. 9. “The Pied Piper of Hamelin.” 10. Cheshire. 11. Jinks. 12. Mehitabel. 13. Clowder. 14. Garfield. 15. Cheetah.

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

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Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 __ for the course; normal 4 Chess pieces 9 Cabbage concoction 13 Midterm or final 15 Give __; care 16 Chicken of the Sea product 17 Lima’s location 18 Enterprise __-Car; Hertz rival 19 Magnet material 20 Splits up 22 Bank teller’s call 23 Walk with heavy steps 24 Battle-ax 26 Agree to take 29 Shears 34 Thick drinks 35 African nation 36 Mediocre grade 37 Major leaguers 38 Human __; person 39 MRI or CT 40 French article 41 Framed pieces of glass 42 Prolonged quarrels 43 Item in a makeup kit 45 Like heavy sandpaper 46 Time __ again; repeatedly 47 Short-necked duck 48 Boston __ chowder 51 Attractive 56 Jumping __; playground activity 57 Mealtimes 58 One of Columbus’ ships 60 __ house; realtor’s event 61 Lariat’s loop 62 Annoying insect 63 Nuisance 64 City in the south of France 65 Have debts

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DOWN 1 Energy 2 Lumberjack tools 3 Unusual 4 Colorful tropical bird 5 __ of time; early 6 Refuses to 7 Jot down 8 Stockpiling 9 Hurts like an injection does 10 Draw; attract 11 As strong as __ 12 Have a yen for 14 Kermit & Miss Piggy 21 Mont Blanc’s range 25 As cute __ button 26 More than adequate 27 Mariah or Drew 28 Glenn or Eric 29 More bashful 30 Tin containers 31 Take place 32 __ the riot act to; berates 33 In a __; sort of

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35 Kelly or Autry 38 Kerchief 39 Closing tightly 41 Brooch 42 Barn baby 44 Bemoan; deplore 45 Discontinues 47 Past, present or future

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48 Cut short 49 Easy gait 50 Makes fun of 52 Impoverished 53 Swimming spot 54 Spanish child 55 Chew like a beaver 59 Consumed

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OSCARS Here are the movies you actually need to see (and a few you can put off)

By SONIA RAO Washington Post

Y ou’ve seen “Joker,” but what’s this about “Jojo”? You’ve already allotted a chunk of your weekend to “The Irishman,” but should you do the same for “Rocketman”? And what about “Little Women”?

Keeping up with all of the films in contention for awards is nearly a full-time job - and for those of us who happen to have that job, it can still be a lot to juggle. In an ideal world, we would advocate for movie lovers to see (almost) all of the contenders as soon as possible, but we understand that time is of the essence, especially with only a few weeks to go before this year’s Oscars ceremony. (That brief time includes a slew of critic, guild and industry awards, including the SAGs and BAFTAs.) To help you out, the Washington Post has come up with a guide to this award season’s buzziest See OSCARS C2

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MONDAY NIGHT: League

of Legends schedule adds matchups during traditional NFL time

By GENE PARK Washington Post

Esports is planting its first flag into the coveted Monday evening time slot, with the League of Legends Championship Series announcing it will air a marquee matchup on the weeknight.

The North American-based League series is to announce the schedule for its first Monday night matchups today, said Chris Greeley, LCS Commissioner at Riot Games, the League of Legends developer.

The introduction of Monday night competitions, a first for the league, came after studying viewer habits, but also discussing the schedule expansion with LCS teams.

“The overwhelming feeling was, let’s carve out a space where nobody else is,” Greeley said to the Post. “We can start to create some habits right alongside our fans. Get home from work, get home from school and have something to tune into on Monday nights instead of the void we have now.”

All 10 LCS teams will be featured on Monday nights. Greeley said every team will have three Monday nights across the spring season. Week 9 will not feature a Monday night game.

The addition of Monday matches highlights a new broadcast schedule format for the league during its spring split. Fridays will feature four simultaneous matches between LCS Academy teams, with LCS casters jumping from match to match based on which is showcasing the best action at that moment. It’s a format similar to the one the NFL uses with its weekly Red Zone broadcasts, highlighting the top plays around the league. Start times have not yet been determined for those matches each week.

On Saturday the league will air

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films, determined by their performances thus far and categorized by viewing urgency.

Happy watching!

THE ONES YOU MUST SEE Every season has its villain, the lightning rod of a movie that tears audiences apart while continuing to win awards left and right. This year, that movie is “Joker,” directed and co-written by Todd Phillips of “The Hangover” fame. While Joaquin Phoenix’s lead performance as the mentally ill Batman villain has attracted praise — and earned him a Golden Globe on Sunday — Phillips’s direction, sometimes disparaged as too derivative of Martin Scorsese’s style, polarized critics. Still, “Joker” has performed undeniably well, on Tuesday landing more BAFTA nominations than any other project.

Speaking of Scorsese, “The Irishman” stands a good chance of racking up Oscar nominations for the director; screenwriter Steven Zaillian; and stars Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci, in addition to a best picture nod.

Pair that with Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story” — which has landed a number of picture and screenplay nominations at other ceremonies, as well as nods for actors Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson and Laura Dern — and Fernando Meirelles’s papal pas de deux “The Two Popes,” starring Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce,

The 2019 League of Legends World Championship Finals in Paris attracted a huge audience. Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games

matches from four LCS games, along with one Academy match, with the pre-show beginning at 4:30 p.m.

Sunday will mirror that with a preshow start time of 3 p.m.

The Monday broadcasts, dubbed Monday Night League, will begin with a pre-show broadcast at 8 p.m.

It will include two LCS games. Three Academy games will air earlier that afternoon at a time yet to be confirmed.

While the NFL has sold rights to its

and Netflix could make up for flopping at the Globes.

Two subjects that continually woo the academy are war and the film industry, so the future looks bright for “1917,” Sam Mendes’s World War I epic that won best drama at the Golden Globes, and “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood,” Quentin Tarantino’s misty-eyed ode to the industry town in the late 1960s.

While the latter has a glitzier cast — Brad Pitt! Leonardo DiCaprio! Margot Robbie! — both are strong showcases for their directors. Mendes’s surprise win for best director at the Globes over Scorsese and Tarantino bodes well for him.

The academy has an unfortunate tendency to overlook filmmakers who aren’t white men, but two writer-directors could turn things around: Greta Gerwig, whose “Little Women” adaptation has left viewers with full hearts and weepy eyes, and Bong Joon Ho, whose oft-funny thriller “Parasite” twists and turns till the end. Gerwig became the fifth woman in Oscars history to land a best director nomination for 2017’s “Lady Bird,” which earned star Saoirse Ronan a best actress nod — two feats that could very well be repeated with “Little Women.” “Parasite” is all but guaranteed to appear in the international film category — which would make it South Korea’s first nomination — but its popularity overseas hints at a wider reach.

THE ONES YOU SHOULD PROBABLY SEE If you wish to be well-versed in the acting categories, you should see “Judy” for Renée

Robert DeNiro, left, and Joe Pesci in a scene from Martin Scorsese “The Irishman.” Netflix

Monday Night Football games independently of its other rights packages, Greeley said that throughout 2020 there is no change as to where all of its games will air. Greeley said LCS is committed to its current broadcasting options, including its own website, YouTube and Twitch.

Greeley makes no secret that the LCS hopes to mimic the success of the NFL program, however.

“The NFL will be the best example on how they’ve been able to monetize

Monday Night Football,” he said.

“We’re certainly looking to follow a similar model, and we’ll be trying to find different ways to make it special.”

The League of Legends World Championships has been often compared to the Super Bowl, though viewership metrics for the Super Bowl and League of Legends World Finals are calculated differently. Riot Games said it drew in more than 100 million viewers world wide during the Paris finals last year. League of Legends

reportedly had about 8 million players logging in to the game itself daily during 2019, a strong base for the LCS to pull potential esports fans.

Given the schedule of the NFL and LCS, there’s no overlap between Monday Night League and Monday Night Football fans, save for one possible night near the end of the summer.

“In terms of Monday night sporting events, we’ll be the only game in town,” Greeley said of the immediate future.

Roman Griffin Davis and writer-director Taika Waititi on the set of “Jojo Rabbit.” The film earned nods from the producers and directors guilds. Kimberly French/20th Century Fox

Zellweger’s take on troubled Hollywood icon Judy Garland, as well as “Rocketman” for Taron Egerton’s vulnerable depiction of Elton John. Both won at the Golden Globes, and while Egerton’s name hasn’t been tossed around as often as other best actor probables when it comes to the Oscars, last year’s winner, Rami Malek, also played a beloved musical figure in a film directed (at least in part) by Dexter Fletcher.

Zellweger’s and Egerton’s chances are bolstered by the fact that the academy loves to see actors play real people, which also applies to Tom Hanks for “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.” He doesn’t play the lead — director Marielle Heller positions Mister Rogers as a supporting character — but he certainly leaves an impression. “Bombshell” has earned tons of attention for Charlize Theron, who plays Megyn Kelly in the film that chronicles the fall of Roger Ailes, as well as for Nicole Kidman, who plays Gretchen Carlson. Robbie plays a fictional composite of young women who worked at Fox News.

This could be a year for fun surprises, given that Adam Sandler, who leads the Safdie

brothers’ “Uncut Gems,” and Jennifer Lopez, a supporting act in Lorene Scafaria’s “Hustlers,” both delivered what critics considered to be Oscar-worthy performances.

Awkwafina won a Golden Globe for her first dramatic turn in “The Farewell,” Lulu Wang’s heartfelt film with one of last year’s top per-screen box-office averages.

Other films that could spur best actor nominees: James Mangold’s “Ford v Ferrari,” which showcases Christian Bale having one heck of a good time, and Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out,” which does the same with Daniel Craig. (“Ford v Ferrari” could also perform well in the technical categories.) Pedro Almodóvar’s “Pain and Glory,” which will probably earn one of five slots in the international film category, boasts a “career-best” performance from Antonio Banderas.

If we are to believe that the Toronto International Film Festival predicts best picture nominees, then Taika Waititi’s World War II satire “Jojo Rabbit,” which won the audience award, is not to be discounted. But the chatter has dropped off since its release,

Joaquin Phoenix in the film “Joker.” Niko Tavernise/Warner Bros.

Entertainment

with perhaps the exception of Johansson’s supporting role.

THE ONES YOU CAN SAVE FOR LATER Both director Alma Har’el and screenwriter/star Shia LaBeouf have been nominated throughout the past few months for LaBeouf’s critically acclaimed autobiographical drama “Honey Boy.” The same can be said of Lupita Nyong’o for her haunting lead performance in Jordan Peele’s “Us.” But for whatever reason, the films seem to have flown under the radar when it comes to Oscars

prognosticating.

While “Parasite” and “Pain and Glory” seem to be frontrunners in the international film category, fellow promising shortlisters include “Les Misérables,” France’s entry inspired by violent Parisian riots in 2005; “Atlantics,” Senegal’s romantic drama and Mati Diop’s feature debut; and “Honeyland,” a North Macedonian documentary about a wild beekeeper.

“Honeyland” also landed on the documentary shortlist, alongside buzzy titles “American Factory,” “Apollo 11” and “For Sama.”

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Acorn squash is served with cheesy rice and poblanos.

E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune

winter

squash

By JEANMARIE BROWNSON Chicago Tribune

W

inter squash, in all shapes, colors and sizes, fill the market bins at this time of the year. I like to display a variety on my kitchen counter like pieces of art. All too often, I skip cooking these hard beauties because the task feels daunting.

However, a beautiful tower of golden roasted, sliced delicata squash at St. Lou’s Assembly in Chicago jolted me out of my kitchen laziness.

Fantastic. As we gobbled up the tender, slightly sweet squash, skin and all, I vowed to rethink squash at home. Especially since the squash in my display basket clearly mocked me.

Looking for insight, I turned to Deborah Madison’s stunningly beautiful tome “Vegetable Literacy” (Ten Speed Press, $40, 2013).

In her chapter on the cucurbit family she says

These dishes are dressed up for company but easy enough for weeknights

there’s no apparent reason to avoid, shun or fear this plant family. Winter squash sports more nutritive value, loads of fiber and vitamins than summer squash. They also prove a great value for the dollar, in part, because, they keep well for weeks. Most squash — winter and summer alike — make fine soups, add texture to stews, bronze beautifully on a grill or in the oven and take to savory seasonings as well as acid and sweet additions.

OK, that’s enough of a sales pitch. I say let’s cook ‘em while we can!

Acorn squash are everywhere, but these days, butternut, spaghetti, delicata, blue Hubbard and sweet dumpling appear regularly at supermarkets and produce stores. I chose small specimens, free of blemishes and soft spots. Look at the stem end — where it was attached to the vine — it should not be too dried See SQUASH C6

Delicata squash rings are roasted before serving. E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune

Start your day the sweet and savory way MUFFINS: Sweet potato

and apples are baked into mini casseroles

By GRETCHEN MCKAY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Thinking of changing up the way you do breakfast in 2020?

These mini casseroles — made in cupcake tins — are almost as easy to pull together as a bowl of oatmeal.

Studded with crispy bacon bits and topped with shredded cheddar, they pair vitaminrich sweet potatoes with the natural sweetness of apples.

They’re equally delicious warm

or at room temperature, and can be easily packed up to take for lunch. I like them with a little Frank’s Red Hot sauce and sprinkled with salt.

This recipe makes six cupcake-sized casseroles, but you also could bake them in a mini cupcake pan for 24 small bites.

MINI SWEET POTATO AND APPLE CASSEROLES Nonstick cooking spray or butter for pan 8 slices thick-cut bacon 2 Granny Smith apples, cored and chopped ½ red onion, diced 2 medium-sized sweet potatoes or yams, peeled and cut into ¼-inch chunks

½ teaspoon dried thyme, plus more for sprinkling Salt and freshly ground black pepper 6 eggs, lightly beaten ¾ cup milk or half-and-half 1 cup shredded low-fat cheddar Hot sauce for serving, optional Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Coat a 6-cup cupcake pan with cooking spray or lightly grease with butter.

Fry bacon slices until crispy in large skillet over medium heat.

Drain bacon on paper towels, then crumble into large pieces.

Discard drippings from pan.

Return skillet to heat and add apples and onions. Cook,

tossing occasionally, until apples are softened, about 5 minutes.

Add potatoes to pan and cook until tender, about 10 to 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in bacon and season with thyme, salt and pepper. Divide potato mixture among muffin cups.

Stir together eggs, milk and cream in a medium bowl. Pour egg mixture over potatoes, and top with cheese. Sprinkle a little more thyme on top.

Bake casseroles for 25 minutes, or until puffed and a toothpick comes out clean. Cool pan for 5 minutes, then remove casseroles from cups. Serve warm.

Mini sweet potato and apple casseroles are just as good for lunch as breakfast. Gretchen McKay/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Books & authors 5 highly anticipated books of 2020

By MOIRA MACDONALD Seattle Times

How do you single out five books, out of all the hundreds coming out in 2020, for special attention? With great trepidation! Here are five very different books, all highly anticipated, making their way to our shelves in the new year.

1. “HITTING A STRAIGHT LICK WITH A CROOKED STICK: STORIES”

By Zora Neale Hurston (HarperCollins, $25.99, Tuesday). The author of “Their Eyes Were Watching God” died in 1960, and some of her work seemed to have died with her.

Now, eight of her “lost” stories, dating from her years at Barnard College during the Harlem Renaissance, finally find their way into the light, along with other short works by Hurston combined in book form for the first time. Genevieve West, a professor and Hurston scholar from Texas Woman’s University, edited the stories and wrote the introduction; Tayari Jones, whose novel “An American Marriage” won the Women’s Prize for Fiction this year, contributed a foreword.

2. “THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE: A SAGA OF CHURCHILL, FAMILY, AND DEFIANCE DURING THE BLITZ”

By Erik Larson (Crown Publishing, $32, Feb. 25). If you’re a World War II/Winston Churchill buff this book should be just up your alley. Larson, who has a knack for making history come alive (“The Devil in the White City,” “Dead Wake”), will focus on Churchill’s first year as prime minister, beginning in May 1940, and how the newly elected leader taught the British people “the art of being fearless.”

3. “THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHT”

By Hilary Mantel (Henry Holt & Co., $30, Mar. 10). With this book, British author Mantel brings to a close her acclaimed historical-fiction trilogy, which began with 2009’s “Wolf Hall” (winner of the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction) and continued with 2012’s “Bring Up the Bodies” (winner of the Man Booker Prize). The new book follows the final years of Thomas Cromwell, after the execution of Anne Boleyn in 1536.

4.“ANTKIND”

By Charlie Kaufman (Penguin Random House, $28.99, May 12). In the category of Highly Anticipated Debut Novels comes this one, from a familiar name — Kaufman is the wonderfully trippy screenwriter behind such gems as “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “Adaptation,” and “Being John Malkovich.” The novel centers on a “neurotic and underappreciated film critic” named B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, who has stumbled upon an unseen masterpiece — a three-monthlong film that took its director 90 years to make. Expect this novel to be bizarre, in (let us hope) a good way.

5. “THE LYING LIFE OF ADULTS”

By Elena Ferrante, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein (Europa, $26, June 9). The pseudonymous author of the beloved Neapolitan Quartet — four internationally bestselling novels, beginning with “My Brilliant Friend,” which follow the lifelong friendship of two Naples women — returns with a new novel, also set in Naples and featuring a young woman at its center. Italians lined up at midnight to buy copies of this novel and organized reading vigils when it was published there in November; we’ll have to wait a few more months for the English translation.

The world’s most famous orphan finds something to live for

By RON CHARLES Washington Post

Dear Edward

By Ann Napolitano Dial. 352 pp. $27 Don’t read this book on a plane.

Or if you ever hope to fly again.

Ann Napolitano’s new novel, “Dear Edward,” opens with the crash of a sold-out flight from New York to Los Angeles. A conspiracy of freak weather conditions and pilot error sends the Airbus A321 rocketing into the ground somewhere in Colorado.

If that isn’t terrifying enough, in alternating chapters, the novel returns to that flight in its final hours, minutes and seconds. This allows us to get to know some of the doomed passengers — an old tycoon disgusted with his infirmity, a discharged soldier grappling with his sexuality, a young woman hoping to get married — until we experience their plane plummeting into the flatlands anew.

I read these fatalistic chapters in a crouching stance of dread.

There’s something brutal about killing a planeload of people and then introducing a handful of them and killing them all over again.

But the cruelty of this aspect of the novel’s structure is countered by the astonishing tenderness of other sections. Amid the wreckage of that downed jet, one passenger is found alive: a 12-year-old boy named Edward.

Napolitano, the associate editor of One Story magazine, has written a novel about the peculiar challenges of surviving a public disaster in the modern age. She shows with bracing clarity just how cable news and social media magnify misery and exposure as never before. Edward awakens in the hospital as the world’s most famous orphan. Broken and terrified, he must immediately shoulder a weird blend of trauma and adulation. Having lost his loving parents and a brother he idolized, he does not feel “lucky.”

Despite being dubbed “The Boy Who Lived,” he wields no magic, but millions of web pages claim otherwise. Mourning relatives, conspiracy theorists and morbid gawkers grab at him as though he’s in a zombie apocalypse of grief.

Every day when Edward practices walking, a small crowd gathers on

Edward awakens in the hospital as the world’s most famous orphan. Broken and terrified, he must immediately shoulder a weird blend of trauma and adulation. the other side of the street. “Worst parade ever,” he thinks.

Napolitano attends to this cultural context deftly, letting the world’s agony and curiosity play out largely on the sidelines of what remains a delicate story of one boy’s physical and psychological recovery. Although Edward has been abruptly expelled from childhood, he’s not yet an adult either.

“We need to figure out what you are,” his therapist says, “so we can figure out how to help you.” One thing the boy knows instinctively is that the torrent of advice, wisdom and counsel raining down upon him is essentially useless. Suspended in a fugue of depression, he’s largely oblivious to his surroundings. His memories, Napolitano writes, appear “like a burglar

bursting through a locked door without warning.” Bracing himself against such intrusions, he wills himself “to remember nothing, think nothing, until all that exists is a flatness — a flatness that he now identifies as himself.”

That blankness at the center of this novel could have become a kind of black hole absorbing all light and interest, but Napolitano captures the subtle shades of Edward’s spirit like the earliest intimations of dawn. Even trapped in the painful narcissism of bereavement, Edward remains attentive to certain frequencies of others’ sadness. He has “the sensation that he’s being followed by more ghosts than he can personally account for.” He senses immediately, for instance, that his aunt and uncle have set aside their own private sorrows to create a new home for him. They have no time to mourn their latest miscarriage. The unused nursery must be redecorated.

The baby they were praying for has arrived as a 12-year-old boy trailing clouds of death.

I fear I’m making this sound repellently gloomy, but in Napolitano’s gentle handling, it’s persistently lovely. In fact, “Dear Edward” sometimes feels like Judith Guest’s “Ordinary People” reimagined in pastel colors. Much of that sweetness stems from her portrayal of Edward, who is indeed dear, but it’s a strange girl named Shay who really leavens the novel. With Shay, Napolitano captures the authentic quirkiness of a precocious adolescent. She lives next door to Edward’s aunt and uncle, and from the start she’s the only person who speaks to Edward with complete and cleansing candor. While everyone else tries to keep him happy in a little terrarium of normal life, Shay comes right out and tells him early on: “I heard a doctor on TV say that there was a zero percent chance of survival from your plane crash. ... You’ll never be a normal kid.” From the summit of her own oddness, she understands Edward’s oddness.

“Shay feels like oxygen to him,” Napolitano writes. She provides exactly the atmosphere of clarity that this fractured boy needs to rebuild his life, and watching them do that together is one of the most touching stories you’re likely to read in the new year.

Three Kuwaiti boys find solace in fables

By BETHANNE PATRICK Washington Post

Her behavior raises more questions than it answers, ... which leaves readers hungry for even more insight into a country and culture rarely considered in Western literature.

Mama Hissa’s Mice

By Saud Alsanousi; translated by Sawad Hussain Amazon Crossing. 373 pp. $14.95 The recently translated “Mama Hissa’s Mice,” by Saud Alsanousi, takes readers to a place where few American readers have ventured: Kuwait.

In one novel, the winner of the 2013 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, for “The Bamboo Stalk,” aims to do no less than sum up an entire culture in all its messy, human complexity.

Our journey begins in 1980s Kuwait where three 12-yearold boys, Katkout, Fahd and Sadiq, live in close proximity.

Their families differ in faith and ethnicity but exist harmoniously, at least until Iraqi forces occupy their country, at which point the friends’ lives change drastically. Katkout finds

himself sheltering at Fahd’s house and bonding with his friend’s grandmother, Mama Hissa, who is a combination of crone and court jester, but whose fables help Katkout cope with his loneliness.

As they grow, the boys form a group known as “Fuada’s Kids” to fight the occupying forces.

Readers learn about the group long before they understand

why and when it started, as the story opens with Katkout searching for a haven after being wounded by gunfire in a near-future Kuwait where war rages and the “Kids” operate a guerrilla radio station. For most of the book, chapters alternate between past and present, but also between “reality” and a novel called “The Inheritance of Fire,” which Katkout is writing about three allegorical mice who also happen to be rebels.

Meanwhile, readers unfamiliar with the history of Kuwait and its meld of Arab traditions will be trying to untangle the many untranslated words and phrases that the

characters use. On one hand, these integrations strengthen the authenticity of this world; on the other, they interrupt the flow. Translator Sawad Hussain must have made tough decisions while bringing “Mama Hissa’s Mice” into English, but not all of those decisions work.

Nor do Alsanousi’s. The near-future fight to regain freedom from forces determined to eradicate it is complicated enough. To combine it with a novel-within-a-novel diminishes the urgency of both stories. But that doesn’t mean this isn’t a book worth readers’ time. Those who persevere will discover beautiful writing about the Arab world

that includes Mama Hissa’s fables. Katkout and his friends love her tales about the importance of following God’s will, even though they find the very existence of God difficult to fathom considering the wreckage around them.

As a character to be culturally translated, Mama Hissa will challenge readers. She loves her boys, yet she is a creature of her context whose principal insult is to call someone who offends her, including her grandson, a “Jew.” Alsanousi grounds her epithet by saying she was “insulting him the only way she knew how.” Is her continued use of the word meant to unbalance our perceptions of Mama Hissa? Her behavior raises more questions than it answers, as does the rest of the novel, which leaves readers hungry for even more insight into a country and culture rarely considered in Western literature.

Publisher’s Weekly best-sellers Tribune News Service

Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, Dec. 21, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan.

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “The Guardians” by John Grisham (Doubleday) Last week: 2 2. “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” by Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne)

Last week: 1 3. “The Institute” by Stephen King (Scribner) Last week: 5 4. “Criss Cross” by James Patterson (Little, Brown) Last week: 4 5. “Strange Planet” by Nathan W. Pyle (Morrow Gift) Last week: 3 6. “A Minute to Midnight” by David Baldacci (Grand Central) Last week: 6 7. “Blue Moon: A Jack Reacher Novel” by Lee Child (Delacorte) Last week: 7 8. “The Dutch House” by Ann Patchett

(Harper) Last week: 9 9. “Twisted Twenty-Six” by Janet Evanovich (Putnam) Last week: 8 10. “The Testaments” by Margaret Atwood (Doubleday/Talese) Last week: 13

HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. “The Pioneer Woman Cooks: The New Frontier” by Ree Drummond (Morrow) Last week: 1 2. “Guinness World Records 2020” by

Guinness World Records (Guinness World Records) Last week: 2 3. “Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice” by Michelle Obama (Clarkson Potter) Last week: 5 4. “Me: Elton John Official Autobiography”

by Elton John (Holt) Last week: 4 5. “Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History” by Brian Kilmeade (Sentinel) Last week: 6 6. “Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know”

by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown) Last week: 10 7. “Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us” by Donald Trump Jr. (Center Street) Last week: 11 8. “The Body: A Guide for Occupants” by Bill Bryson (Doubleday) Last week: 12 9. “The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience” by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton (Simon & Schuster) Last week: 8 10. “A Warning” by Anonymous (Twelve) Last week: 17

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

THINK ON YOUR FEET Neither vulnerable, South deals NORTH ♠AQJ2 ♥ K 10 2 ♦ Q2 ♣5432 WEST EAST ♠ 10 9 8 ♠K763 ♥ AJ9543 ♥ 86 ♦ 10 9 ♦ 753 ♣AJ ♣KQ87 SOUTH ♠54 ♥ Q7 ♦ AKJ864 ♣ 10 9 6 The bidding:

SOUTH WEST 2♦ 2♥

NORTH 3♦

EAST All pass

Opening lead: 10 of ♠ It’s unusual for the weak twobidder to have as stong a hand as the over-caller, but both bids were reasonable.

South won the opening spade lead with dummy’s ace and drew trumps in three rounds. He then led a spade to dummy’s queen and East’s king. East shifted to a low club, South played his 10, and West

won with his jack. West cashed the ace of clubs and the ace of hearts, but that was it for the defense.

Dummy’s jack of spades provided a parking place for declarer’s third club.

We don’t know how often the final contract would be three diamonds in a duplicate contest, but we would expect to see the same defense at many of those tables. It is a lazy defense, however, and we think West should have done better. East made a good play when he shifted to a low club. The defense would have had no chance had he shifted to a high club. From West’s point of view, it was certainly possible for South to have the queen of clubs rather than the queen of hearts, but how could the defense prevail after West wins the jack of clubs? West should see that the only chance for the defense was to win the club shift with the ace and return the jack.

That would have led to down one.

Always be on the lookout for an unusual play that can’t cost and might be very successful.

(Bob Jones welcomes readers’ responses sent in care of this newspaper or to Tribune Content Agency, LLC., 16650 Westgrove Dr., Suite 175, Addison, TX 75001.

E-mail: tcaeditors@tribpub.com)

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are one of the most curious individuals born under your sign, but unlike the cat who was killed by just such a trait, you’re sure to thrive because you are more than willing to delve into all manner of things for very good reasons. You consider yourself a student of life, and your way of looking at the world is warm, tolerant and accepting.

When it comes to family, you will do your best always to be there when the need arises. Though you may travel the wide world for work or play, you will never forget where you truly belong and whom you can count on in both good times and bad. You will likely prove yourself a loyal child and have the makings of a fine parent.

Also born on this date are: Kevin Costner, actor; Danny Kaye, actor and comedian; Cary Grant, actor; Oliver Hardy, actor; A.A. Milne, author, creator of “Winnie the Pooh”; Daniel Webster, statesman and orator.

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

SUNDAY, JANUARY 19 CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You may have to do a little more digging than usual today before you come up with the answer you seek. An expert shows you the way.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Follow in the footsteps of someone you admire today; you’ll learn a great deal about yourself — and discover a new creative outlet.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — That which begins in the most casual manner is likely to become quite serious before the day is out. Can you afford to make such

an investment?

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You may discover that you have much more in common with someone than you had suspected. The proof is surprising to both of you!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — The more you insist that someone do things in a certain way, the more likely he or she will be to resist you. Try a more subtle approach.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Be as thorough as you can be today, especially when looking into the causes of something that has affected your entire way of looking at the world.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — It’s unlikely that you will have all your questions answered today, but it is quite probable that others will question what you have to offer.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You may be seeing things through a lens that is not of your making — nor is it really suited to you. Try to develop a new perspective.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You cannot afford to let a project go off course at this time. Many people exert controlling influences, but yours counts most of all.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You’re waiting for someone to give you the final word on something that has been in limbo for a while, but that final word won’t change much.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — All you have to do to prevail today is answer questions honestly and do what comes naturally. Being true to yourself is all-important.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — It’s important for you to remember exactly who is on your side, who is not and those you may be able to sway before the day is out.

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2020 is the year to ditch

DIET CULTURE

This is the year to step off the scales and embrace the “body positivity” movement. Writers, researchers, bloggers and influencers creating new cultural norms that emphasize the beauty of all bodies, the value of Health At Every Size (HAES), and radical self-love. Dreamstime/TNS

BODY POSITIVITY: More people are stressing less about numbers and thinking about Health at Every Size

By NAOMI ISHISAKA Seattle Times

Like millions of women before me, I spent most of my life struggling with body-image issues. Countless precious years consumed by diets, worries about weight and after it all, my body shape has pretty much stayed the same. My physical health is great, but it has taken me until my 40s to start to shake the psychological impact of what I know now is called “diet culture.”

Diet culture is a system of values and beliefs that permeate our society and instruct us that shrinking ourselves into smaller bodies will lead to better health outcomes. It believes that those who are striving to make their bodies smaller are more disciplined and more worthy than those who don’t. Diet culture dictates that there is “bad” food and “good” food and that shame and guilt around food are important to keep us “on track.”

The diet culture Goliath has had the upper hand since the turn of the last century and it has led 45 million people each year to pursue diets that are almost inevitably going to fail to shrink their bodies for more than a short time.

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out or bruised.

Most winter squash enjoys a steamy environment for cooking. So, cook them whole (pierced to allow steam to escape) in the oven or microwave, or speed up the cooking by cutting them into pieces and adding moisture (water, broth, oil) during cooking.

Cooked squash keeps several days in the refrigerator and can be frozen. This means it’s now a weeknight option.

The simple roasted squash recipe below can be made with nearly any winter squash.

Butternut is relatively easy to peel and dice. You can roast other squash with the peel still on, but I like to cut it into wedges so I can easily scoop the soft flesh away from the peel. When roasting squash, don’t skimp on the oil — it works to retain the moisture in the flesh.

Stuffed squash makes a great meatless main course or elegant side to a roast chicken dinner. My favorite combination

Singer Lizzo is unapologetic about her weight and exudes confidence. Tribune News Service

But a movement has emerged to fight back.

Writers, researchers, bloggers and influencers embracing “body positivity” or “fat acceptance,” creating new cultural norms that emphasize the beauty of all bodies, the value of Health At Every Size (HAES), and radical selflove.

HAES proponents argue that like height, eye or skin color, humans

come in a variety of shapes and sizes.

Body shape and BMI are not accurate predictors of health — you can be a marathoner in a larger body and ill in a smaller one. Discrimination and stigma toward larger bodies in diet culture actually leads to poorer health outcomes, as people delay health care due to fat shaming in medical settings as well as doctors attributing every ailment to weight. HAES advocates argue that we should take a holistic approach to our health, one that recognizes that being at war with our bodies saps our human potential and does not serve our mental health or well-being.

Perhaps the unintentional reigning queen of this empowerment movement is Lizzo, the self-described “fat bitch” who was just named Time magazine’s entertainer of the year. Lizzo’s unapologetic message of confidence, independence and self-love has inspired a legion of fans.

One of those fans is 12-year-old Taylor Freeman, who said in fifth grade, other students at her school created an unauthorized online poll that ranked Freeman as one of the fattest kids in class. The cruelty of the students hurt

Freeman’s feelings at the time, but not for long. In sixth grade, Freeman started to see Lizzo and other larger-bodied people in the media and on stage and it opened her mind to new possibilities.

One highlight of her life so far was having Lizzo point to her at the 2019 Capitol Hill Block Party and say that Freeman reminded her of herself when she was a child.

The singer made a big impression. “I realized it doesn’t really matter,” Freeman said. “Being fat doesn’t stop you from doing anything. (Lizzo) has sold out shows, a lot of people love her and she’s also fat. We’re all human beings.

And when it comes down to it, you can’t discriminate against other people just because they look a different way ... and even if you try to tear them down, it only matters how you feel about yourself.”

But I know what some of you are probably thinking: We have an obesity epidemic in this country and we need diet culture to help fight it! It is received wisdom that the U.S. “obesity epidemic” is responsible for increased diabetes, heart disease, cancer and a multitude of other health issues. Encouraging weight loss, then, would

of rice, green chile, corn and cheese makes a terrific stuffing for acorn or delicata squash. I like the dark green vegetable flavor of poblano chiles in contrast to the sweet flavor of winter squash.

When stuffing squash (or bell peppers for that matter), the trick is to cook the squash to tenderness first. Then, season the squash and the filling mixture. A few minutes in the oven will blend the flavors together. Alternatively, skip stuffing the squash. Instead, stir 3 or 4 cups of the simple Go ahead and roast a head of garlic along with your butternut roasted butternut into the squash. Add some herbs and dig in. Tribune News Service rice filling for a hearty side sprinkled with herbs.

Chopped fresh or dried herbs dish.

SIMPLE ROASTED BUTTERNUT SQUASH Makes: 4 servings Wedges of acorn squash, sweet dumpling or blue Hubbard (peel on) can be substituted; after roasting, scoop the soft flesh away from the peel.

1 medium-large butternut squash, about 2 pounds OR 2 packages (12 ounces each) diced butternut squash ¼ cup expeller-pressed canola oil, safflower oil or olive oil ½ teaspoon salt

1. Heat oven to 450 degrees.

Trim top (stem end) off the butternut. Cut butternut crosswise in 2 pieces — one the long skinny “neck” and the other the bulbous bottom. Peel each of the pieces.

Cut each in half; scoop out the seeds and fibrous pulp.

Cut the flesh into 1 to 1 ½ inches pieces.

2. Transfer squash to a rimmed baking sheet. Add oil; toss to coat well. Sprinkle with salt.

3. Roast squash, stirring once or twice, until tender and golden, 20 to 25 minutes.

Remove from oven. Serve

ACORN SQUASH WITH CHEESY RICE AND POBLANOS Makes: 4 servings Instead of using the microwave oven, you can bake squash in a 350-degree oven until tender, about 40 minutes.

You also can use sweet dumpling or delicata squash. After halving the squash, cut a small slice from the uncut ends so the squash halves sit level.

4 small (about 1 pound each) acorn squash, halved, seeds and fibers removed 2 to 3 tablespoons unsalted butter or olive oil 1 medium-size white onion, chopped 2 medium-size poblano chiles, halved, seeded, chopped (or 1 poblano and 1 red or yellow bell pepper) 3 large cloves garlic, crushed 2 cups cooked white or brown rice OR 1 pouch (8.8 to 10.5 ounces) fully cooked rice 1 cup frozen corn kernels, thawed ½ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon each: thyme, black pepper 1/8 teaspoon ground allspice 1 1/3 cups shredded Chihuahua or Monterey jack cheese

seem to be a logical and appropriate response to this crisis. Christy Harrison, the author of the new book “Anti-Diet,” argues that looking to diet culture for solutions to improve health is misguided at best and harmful at worst.

Researchers are finally digging deeper into the difference between correlation and causality when it comes to body size and health and some research is reinforcing what Harrison and others have been arguing for years about health: that your level of activity, nutritious foods and social determinants of health, such as walkable communities, matter most. Everyone, regardless of body size, benefits from those choices, but repeated weight loss and gain (or weight cycling) is harmful.

The battle to change the U.S. obsession with diet culture is far from won.

Fat shaming is one of the last socially acceptable forms of discrimination in our country.

But maybe if we could ask more critical questions about diet culture, we might end up with a generation of Taylor Freemans and Lizzos, who know their worth and their health are not determined by a number on a scale.

3 green onions, trimmed, chopped ¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro Lime wedges 1. Put squash halves, cut side down, in a single layer in a microwave-safe baking dish.

(Work in batches to accommodate your microwave oven).

Add about ½ inch of water to the dish; cover with lid or plastic wrap vented at one corner.

Microwave on high, turning dish if needed, until a fork can be inserted easily in the flesh of the squash, 13 to 15 minutes.

Keep covered while you cook the remaining squash. (Refrigerate cooked squash halves up to 2 days.)

2. For filling, melt butter or heat oil in large skillet over medium heat. Add onion and poblano; cook until tender, 5 to 6 minutes. Stir in garlic; cook, 1 minute. Stir in rice, corn, salt, thyme, pepper and allspice; heat thoroughly. Remove from heat. Stir in cheese, green onions and cilantro. Taste and adjust seasonings.

3. Heat oven to 350 degrees.

Arrange cooked squash halves cut side up in oiled baking dishes. Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste. Spoon a quarter of the filling into each squash. Cover with a sheet of oiled aluminum foil.

4. Bake until heated through, about 20 minutes (longer if squash has been refrigerated before stuffing). Serve hot with a squeeze of lime.

Nutrition per serving: 498 calories, 18 g fat, 11 g saturated fat, 49 mg cholesterol, 74 g carbohydrates, 2 g sugar, 16 g protein, 535 mg sodium, 8 g fiber

ROASTED DELICATA SQUASH RINGS

Makes: 4 servings Vary the spice rub on the squash to suit the rest of the meal. Try everything bagel seasoning blend, Old Bay or pumpkin pie spice.

2 medium-large delicata squash, about 1 ½ pounds total, ends trimmed off 2 tablespoons expeller-pressed canola oil, safflower oil or olive oil Salt, pepper 1 to 2 teaspoons favorite spice rub Balsamic glaze, optional Pumpkin seed oil (or other nut oil), optional Chopped fresh chives or green onion tops 1. Cut squash crosswise into ½-inch thick rings. Use a serrated grapefruit spoon or clean hands to pull away and discard the fiber and seeds in the center of each ring.

2. Put the rings in a single layer in a microwave-safe 13-by-9-inch baking dish. Add ½ cup water. Cover with a lid or plastic wrap vented at one corner. Microwave on high until nearly tender when pierced with a fork, 5 to 6 minutes. Let stand, covered, a few minutes.

Drain off the water. (This step can be done up to a day in advance; refrigerate covered.)

3. Arrange squash on a baking sheet. Brush both sides with canola oil. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and spice rub.

(This can be done several hours in advance; let stand covered at room temperature.)

4. Heat oven to 425 degrees.

Roast squash, 10 minutes.

Flip the pieces over; roast until edges are golden, about 10 minutes. Transfer gently to a serving platter. Serve garnished with a drizzle of balsamic glaze, pumpkin seed oil and chives.