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Firefighters from several local fire departments battled flames in a deadly mobile home fire in Cairo this weekend. An occupant of the home was killed, authorities said.

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CAIRO — An investigation into a fatal house fire Saturday morning in Cairo has been launched, the Greene County Sheriff’s Office said Monday.

Firefighters discovered the body of a man as they were opening walls and ceilings to search for traces of possible hot spots.

The person killed in the fire has been tentatively identified as a 69-year-old man

who was the sole occupant of the mobile home, according to the statement from the Greene County Sheriff’s Office.

Investigators are not releasing the name of the man until his next-of-kin is notified. An autopsy was performed Monday morning and the cause of death has been determined as smoke inhalation.

The fire, which broke out at 886 Old Route 23, had quickly spread through the

mobile home when first responders arrived shortly after 9 a.m. Saturday. The blaze was reported to police by a passerby at 8:58 a.m.

The man was believed to be resting at the time of the fire, police said. It’s unclear at this time in what part of the house the fire started.

Although the fire remains under investigation, police do not suspect foul play.

Fire, police and ambulance crews worked in frigid See FIRE A8

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WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of New York’s congressional members sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission last week expressing concern over the state not receiving funding for rural broadband initiatives.

The FCC released on Jan. 14 a list of 48 states with locations deemed eligible to receive Phase I Rural Digital Opportunity Fund awards, to be voted on later by the entire FCC at the end of the month. New York did not make the list that would make it eligible for $16 billion in funding, to the dismay of many of its elected officials.

“Although the state has made progress toward achieving universal broadband access, there are still areas of New York state meeting the FCC’s stated eligibility requirement for RDOF insofar as they lack access to broadband from a fixed provider at speeds of at least 25/3 Mbps,” wrote the group,

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U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik shown here at the recent House Intellgence Committee impeachment hearings. Stefanik co-signed a bipartisan letter to the Federal Communications Commission asking why New York state was denied $16 billion in aid to expand rural broadband access.

led by U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19. “We urgently request that these

communities be considered eligible areas for the purposes of Phase 1.”

Besides Delgado, 21 other congressional members including U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-21, and U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko, D-20, signed the letter dated Jan. 17. The FCC did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The disparity in broadband access between rural and urban areas is significant. According to the FCC Broadband Deployment Report of 2019, more than 25% of rural residents don’t have access to sufficient internet speeds, compared to less than 2% of urban residents.

According to the New York State Broadband Program Office, 98% of New Yorkers have access to broadband. But the number is known to be an extreme overestimate because of mapping flaws. If one home within a census block has access to broadband services, the entire block is marked as served, according to the office.

Addressing the lack of broadband See BROADBAND A8

CMH eyes new Catskill medical plaza

By Melanie Lekocevic Columbia-Greene Media

Columbia Memorial Health has signed an agreement for a purchase option on four acres of land in Greene County, with plans for a new medical plaza.

The site, on the west side of the New York State Thruway, is part of a 60-acre parcel owned by the Greene County Industrial Development Agency.

The land is currently vacant.

While plans are still in the preliminary stages, Columbia Memorial Health plans to open CMH Medical Plaza West, where specialty medical services not currently

available in the county would be provided.

The goal is to expand services — likely specialty outpatient services — and draw on the hospital’s affiliation with Albany Medical Center, hospital officials said.

“CMH’s affiliation with Albany Med has positioned us to envision providing specialty care services currently not available in Greene County, providing local residents with convenient access to even more care,” said Jay P. Cahalan, president and CEO of Columbia Memorial Health.

A specific list of services has

not been finalized, Columbia Memorial Health spokesman Bill Van Slyke said.

The new plaza would not replace the Greene Medical Arts Center, also owned by CMH, which is in Jefferson Heights.

That facility would remain unchanged.

Greene County has not had a hospital since Greene County Memorial Hospital closed in the early 1990s. The building where the hospital once stood is where Greene Medical Arts Center is now housed.

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Columbia Memorial Health in Hudson. Columbia Memorial Health has signed an agreement for a purchase option on four acres of land in Greene County, with plans for a new medical plaza.

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President Vladimir Putin proposed giving broad new authority to set the direction of foreign, domestic and economic policy to the State Council as part of the constitutional overhaul he announced last week.

Putin laid out the details of the plan _ widely seen as the Kremlin’s effort to lay the groundwork for Putin extending his rule beyond the end of his current term in 2024 _ in draft amendments to the constitution submitted to parliament Monday.

The changes, which cover 21 pages, fill out some of the gaps in the plan Putin announced last week in his stateof-the-nation address. The overhaul would weaken the presidency, while giving more power to parliament and particularly to the State Council.

At the moment, that body is a gathering of regional and national leaders headed by Putin but with largely ceremonial powers. Under the proposed changes, the Council’s role would for the first time be written into the constitution and a special federal law.

The State Council would have the power to “set the main directions of the domestic and foreign policy of the Russian Federation and the priority areas of socioeconomic development,” according to the draft. The body

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Russian President Vladimir Putin during the State Council meeting on agriculture policy at the Kremlin on Dec. 26, 2019 in Moscow, Russia. Russia’s prime minister resigned Wednesday to enable Putin to pursue constitutional reform giving more power to the premiership.

would be formed by the president, although the proposed amendments give no indication how that process would take place.

STATE COUNCIL Leading a strengthened State Council could be a role that could allow Putin to continue to dominate Russian politics even after the end of his current term, which must be his last under the constitution.

Putin has described the constitutional amendments as aimed at strengthening

Russia’s democratic institutions. Over the weekend, he said that continuing the Soviet tradition of leaders for life would be bad for the country.

The amendments include a provision to limit presidents to no more than two terms in total, rather than consecutive as in the current constitution.

“The State Council becomes something like a collective presidency,” said Andrey Kortunov, head of the Kremlin-founded Russian International Affairs Council.

“It will be very important who

heads it and how it’s formed.”

Those issues aren’t addressed in detail in the draft published Monday.

In addition to enshrining the State Council in the constitution, the proposed changes also give the parliament greater say over the formation of the government.

The president’s candidate for prime minister would need formal confirmation by the lower house of parliament, instead of the current process of giving consent. The premier’s cabinet picks, currently not subject to legislative approval, would require parliamentary confirmation and couldn’t be rejected by the president.

The proposed changes also formally give precedence to Russian law over international treaties and obligations.

Parliament has scheduled an initial vote on the changes for Tuesday, with full approval expected in the next few months. The draft law says the plan will also be subject to a national vote, which officials have said will be held this spring, though approval is all but certain.

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Thousands descend on Virginia’s statehouse to protest proposed gun laws

By Brock Vergakis, Marie Albiges, Gordon Rago and Alissa Skelton The Virginian-Pilot (TNS)

RICHMOND, Va. — Thousands of protesters descended on Virginia’s Capitol on Monday to protest proposed changes to state gun laws, many of them heavily armed to show their support for the Second Amendment.

Gov. Ralph Northam had placed Richmond under a state of emergency, saying the annual lobby day and rally has drawn the attention of militia and out-of-state groups who have come to “intimidate” and “cause harm.”

The unusually large crowds come after Democrats won majorities in the House and Senate. Gun control measures that have for years been quashed by Republicans — implementing universal background checks, limiting sales to one handgun a month, allowing localities to ban guns in certain places and creating an extreme risk protection order — were passed out of a packed Senate Judiciary Committee meeting last week.

Northam said intelligence officials had received “credible, serious threats” of violence comparable to those targeted towards Charlottesville, where in 2017 neo-Nazis and white supremacists clashed with counter protesters and a woman was killed.

Northam banned weapons from statehouse grounds, and anyone who wanted to be on Capitol Square had to pass through magnetometers and have their bags searched, causing lengthy lines. Many protesters wore orange stickers saying “Guns save lives.”

Outside a temporary fence erected on Capitol Square,

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Gun rights protestors gather under the Virginia State Capitol for a rally in support of Second Amendment rights Monday, Jan. 20, 2020.

other protesters openly carried assault-style weapons on sidewalks and nearby streets that had been closed to traffic.

Karen Blackville said she drew up her will and power of attorney and left it behind for her oldest son before arriving at Monday’s rally.

“Hope for the best, prepare for the worst,” she said.

Blackville lives in Hanover County and isn’t a current gun owner but has owned guns in the past. She said she’s a survivor of domestic violence and wants to protect her right to own guns in the future. She’s against a proposal that would limit some indoor gun ranges, fearful that it would hinder people’s ability to get training.

Protesters arrived by buses from across the state, while others came in from places like Tennessee, Florida, Kentucky, New York and Connecticut.

Roberto Minuta, a 33-yearold tattoo artist from New York, chose to come into capitol grounds unarmed, saying he didn’t want to “come in and

look like a radical.”

He’s upset about the stricter gun laws his state has passed and said he doesn’t want to see Virginia suffer the same fate.

Danny Tumer, a 60-year-old member of the Virginia Citizens Defense League and truck driver who lives in Richmond, said he came unarmed because “I got something I want to say.”

“I want to meet people face to face,” he said.

He’s unlikely to meet any legislators on the grounds today, as the Capitol and lawmakers’ offices are inaccessible once people have passed through security.

“I think there’s an assault on the Second Amendment,” he said, adding he hadn’t read the gun bills Democrats have proposed.

By 8:30 am, the grounds had started to fill up, with people standing on the hillside in front of the Capitol steps watching the crowds on the other side of the fence and chanting things like “Northam out” and “USA”.

Tensions have been building

across the state since Democrats gained a majority in the legislature and vowed to enact tighter gun control laws following the May mass shooting in Virginia Beach. As lawmakers filed bills to limit handgun purchases and require universal background checks, gun owners — first in rural counties, then in large cities like Virginia Beach — packed local government chambers, demanding localities not enforce any proposed legislation they considered an infringement on their Second Amendment rights.

Peter Helms, 63, of Franklin rode on a bus to Richmond on Monday morning to support the Second Amendment. With people he just met, the retired corrections guard stood outside of a fence surrounding the Capitol grounds around 9 a.m. Many armed people surrounded him.

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Martin Luther King Jr. honored in Hudson

By Amanda Purcell Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — The community gathered to celebrate the life and legacy of a leader of the Civil Rights Movement who inspired millions.

Martin Luther King Jr. was the inspiration for the event “Breaking Down Barriers” on Sunday at Shiloh Baptist Church, 14 Warren St. The event was hosted by the Hudson Interfaith Council, a collective of multiple faiths, including Lutherans, Quakers and Baptists, among others.

Religious leaders entered to the beats of Kuumba Drum Corps. Operation Unite NY Dance Corps performed an African dance. Excerpts from King’s most famous words were read aloud by community leaders.

First Ward Supervisor Sarah Sterling quoted King, saying, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.”

“Some days that is really tough and it can feel life-threatening and fear takes over,” Sterling said. “As we know this is how Martin Luther King gave up his life. But I know this is the only way to live.”

King led the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. from 1955 until his assassination in Memphis in 1968 when he was 39. King’s most admired speech, “I Have a Dream,” asked the country to judge people by the content of their character and not their skin color.

U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19, took time out to attend the event and present the Micah 6:8 Award to high school student and aspiring surgeon Pierre Jeune of Hudson.

Recipients of the award must “love with mercy and walk humbly with their God,” according to the Bible. Jeune said he wanted to become a doctor.

“Church is a hospital,” he wrote in his application essay.

“All types of people come in from all walks of life and carrying all types of burdens, looking to be healed and it is our duty as Christians to love them,” said Jeune, who worships at Pentecostal Gospel Lighthouse in Stottville.

“How fitting it is to recognize him on Martin Luther King Jr. Day,” Delgado said. “Dr. King’s legacy is rooted in unconditional love. It was Dr. King who said if you are seeking the highest good I think you can find it through love.”

As part of the ceremony, the Rev. Ronald Grant, pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church, announced his retirement effective the first week in May, and

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Hudson Democratic Committee Chairman Randall Martin presented an award at the inter-faith celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. on Sunday at Shiloh Baptist Church, 14 Warren St.

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Operation Unite New York Dance Corps performs an African dance on Sunday at Shiloh Baptist Church, 14 Warren St. The dance was held in memory of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

that his replacement will be the Rev. Alan Williams of Macedonia Baptist Church.

“You are a true blessing to our community and your guidance and well-being and concern is something I pulled from,” Delgado said to Grant. “From the bottom of my heart, thank you for all you have done.”

The guest speaker was the Rev. Darryl Gray, a veteran of more than 40 years in the U.S. and Canadian Civil and Human Rights Movement. He has worked with senior staff with various civil rights icons, including the Coretta Scott King and the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

“We’ve broken down barriers and we’ve come so far

but there is still so much to do,” Mayor Kamal Johnson said.

Pointing out Delgado, Johnson said, “Here in the front row we have the first person of color

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U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19, presents an award to high school student Pierre Jeune for his service to his church and community.

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The abandoning of New York The objective of the looming U.S. Census is to count every man, woman and child in the nation. That is an undeniably lofty goal but here are the treasures waiting at the end of the quest: Congressional representation and billions of federal dollars. Now here is the challenge confronting us: Recently released population data from the U.S. Census Bureau deliver projections that New York may be losing a congressional seat, and maybe two, in the new decade.

The numbers are discouraging, to say the least. The report found that New York has grown far more slowly than other states over the past decade, adding only about 73,000 people while losing nearly 1 million residents to other states. According to the study, the state would need 537,876 people to keep the 27 seats it holds in Congress.

Even more alarming, if this year’s census information reveals that New York’s population is down by around 237,000, the state could lose a second congressional seat, bringing the number of seats down to 25.

The 2020 projections, based on the growth trends of the past decade, found that New York is only 61,279 people away from losing that second seat.

The population losses are heavily concentrated in the upstate area — that means Columbia and Greene counties — which is probably not surprising, and so a district there could be lost. Also not surprising are two of the three main reasons people are heading out of New York in droves: climate change and high taxes.

The third, the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration, contains its

own logic.

New York grew in population mostly because of immigration, and that has slowed since 2017 with the Trump administration. With a travel ban the administration enacted against several Muslim-majority countries, increased apprehensions and lower numbers of immigrants crossing the southern border, and a lower refugee cap year after year under the administration, immigration slowed to a trickle in New York.

Between 2016 and 2018, there was an approximate 25,000-person drop in immigrants obtaining lawful permanent status in New York, according to data from U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services. Special immigrant visa arrivals to the state were slashed by more than half between fiscal years 2017 and 2019, from 531 to 230, according to Office of Refugee Resettlement data.

The number of refugees who resettled in the state fell by more than 3,000 from fiscal year 2016 to fiscal year 2019, and is expected to drop more dramatically with the White House plan to slash refugee admissions from 30,000 to 18,000.

Experts said the immigrant communities left in New York will have a hard time getting counted in the new census, a problem for a state that is dependent on immigrants to bolster population count.

Holding on to the status quo on congressional representation for New York is in great peril and, as the census begins, the immediate outlook for the state is grim.

ANOTHER VIEW

Trump invited states and localities to bar refugees; a judge says he can’t do that (c) 2020,The Washington Post ·

When President Donald Trump announced last fall that he would require states and localities to consent to the resettlement of legal, thoroughly vetted refugees in their communities, he bragged at a campaign rally in Minnesota, “Believe me, no other president would be doing that.” Trump was right. In four decades, no other president has done so - and there are excellent reasons for that.

First among them is that his executive order - in effect an invitation for Americans to turn away prospective neighbors who might look, sound or think different - reinforces and encourages the most exclusionary, divisive, intolerant faults in America’s social fabric. By doing so, it diminishes the country, not least in the eyes of a world that has long looked to the United States as a leader of humanitarian causes such as resettling the planet’s most desperate people.

No one believes Trump is swayed by such arguments. But here’s another: What he did is probably illegal.

This past Wednesday, Judge Peter Messitte, of the U.S. District Court in Maryland, granted a temporary injunction freezing Trump’s order, and in the process offered a lucid explanation of why it is unlikely to pass legal or constitutional muster. He cited a raft of precedents, including by the Supreme Court, reserving for the federal government - not states, let alone localities - the exclusive power to admit or deny immigrants. He also demonstrated that the president’s stance flies in the face of Congress’s intent when it established the current refugee system, in 1980, and subsequently.

That law provides what it calls “comprehensive and uniform provisions” to resettle and provide for refugees admitted after rigorous screening by U.S. agencies, a process that takes about two years. It establishes a system of consultation between federal and local officials designed to ensure a smoothly functioning system. Nowhere does it grant states and localities a veto; in fact, in amending the law to provide for more consultation, in 1986, the House Judiciary Committee noted in a report that it did not intend to grant states and localities any veto.

Mindful of the legislation, Justice Department lawyers, tasked with defending the president’s order, tried to pretend it did not amount to a veto for states and localities; rather, they said, it was meant only to “enhance the consultation.” The judge rightly labeled that “Orwellian Newspeak.”

Trump’s move was an appeal to the nation’s worst instincts. Most Americans didn’t bite. Ahead of a deadline on Tuesday,at least 42 governors and scores of localities, including many with large Republican majorities, have announced they would accept refugees. Only Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, R, so far has declined; the judge’s decision denies him that power.

That won’t stop Trump from eviscerating the refugee program; he’s already slashed the annual limit on resettlements to 18,000, down from the 110,000 President Barack Obama announced in his last year in office.

The open arms of most states and localities do send a convincing message, though - that Americans are not as fearful, hostile and small-minded as Trump evidently believes.

A dispiriting legal skirmish in the pronoun wars WASHINGTON — “I am a woman,” wrote federal prisoner #18479-078. “Can I not be referred to as one?”

Apparently not, according to a ruling this week from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Dividing 2-1, with President Trump appointee Stuart Kyle Duncan writing the opinion, the panel not only rebuffed inmate Norman Varner’s petition for a name change in the prison system to Kathrine Nicole Jett — it rejected her request that the court use the female pronoun in referring to her.

This is a single, obscure skirmish, although a particularly dispiriting one, in the larger pronoun wars. As the country struggles with questions about the legal and social status of transgender individuals -- and with the parallel, emerging understanding that others may not fit into a binary, either/or gender category — pronouns have become an unexpectedly and unnecessarily heated area of contention.

For one camp, the demand for ever more bespoke pronouns encapsulates political correctness run amok; for the other, the refusal to accommodate their pronouns of choice signifies a deeper lack of respect.

There are any number of questions surrounding the treatment of transgender individuals, and this being America, they all seem, as de Tocqueville observed about the American tendency toward litigiousness, to end up in court. Does federal law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex protect transgender workers, a case now before the Supreme Court? May transgender service members serve openly in the military, as Barack Obama permitted and President Trump has reversed?

Should government programs like Medicare, or institutions like the military or prisons, be required to cover or fund gender reassignment therapy? Last year, a different panel of the same appeals court rejected a claim by a transgender prisoner that Texas prison officials violated her constitutional right against cruel and unusual

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MARCUS punishment by refusing to cover gender reassignment surgery.

Pronoun disputes are both a byproduct of these larger fights and a separate field of battle. In one of a number of similar cases, a Virginia high school teacher was fired for refusing to use the male pronoun to refer to a transgender student who was biologically female; the teacher used the student’s preferred, male name, but said his religious convictions prevented him from referring to “him” as “her.” The teacher is suing, claiming that the firing violated his rights to free speech and religious liberty.

Federal judges hearing these cases have generally treated the transgender litigants with courtesy, which is to say they have used the individual’s preferred pronoun.

Not Duncan. He cited the example of his fellow Trump appointee James Ho in the Texas transgender prisoner case, who said he would refer to the transgender female prisoner by the male pronoun, “consistent with” the policy of Texas prison officials.

In the latest case, Jett was an unsympathetic plaintiff who, in Duncan, faced a judge particularly unsympathetic to her plight. She pled guilty to attempted receipt of child pornography and was sentenced to 15 years in prison, a lengthy sentence that reflected an earlier state child pornography offense.

And she found herself before an appellate panel that included Duncan, who in private practice had argued against same-sex marriage and represented a Virginia school board in a lawsuit brought by Gavin Grimm, a transgender student seeking access to the boy’s bathroom.

(A federal court later ruled that the school board violated Grimm’s constitutional rights.)

Despite his previously expressed hostility to transgender rights, Duncan made the astonishing argument that the court was compelled to deny Jett’s request precisely to avoid “delicate questions about judicial impartiality.”

Duncan was joined by Reagan appointee Jerry Smith; a Clinton appointee, James Dennis, “emphatically” dissented.

In accommodating a litigant’s request to be addressed by the pronoun of her choice, Duncan wrote, “the court may unintentionally convey its tacit approval of the litigant’s underlying legal position. Even this appearance of bias, whether real or not, should be avoided.”

Oh please, as if not accepting the request sends no signal whatsoever.

Then Duncan conjured fears about the slippery slope of potential pronouns, going so far as to reproduce a University of Wisconsin chart of possibilities. “If a court orders one litigant referred to as ‘her’ (instead of ‘him’), then the court can hardly refuse when the next litigant moves to be referred to as ‘xemself’ instead of ‘himself’),” Duncan warned. “Deploying such neologisms could hinder communication among the parties and the court.”

Oh please, again. Surely federal judges are capable of managing such a pronoun crisis, if it were to arise.

“I am a woman,” Jett wrote.

Even in an uncivil, unyielding era, all of us — certainly federal judges endowed with enormous power and lifetime tenure — should be able to summon the grace to grant her simple request to be described that way.

Ruth Marcus’ email address is ruthmarcus@washpost.com. (c) 2020, Washington Post Writers Group Ruth Marcus is deputy editorial page editor for The Post. She also writes a weekly column.

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New literacy campaign applauded To the editor: I applaud Columbia County, Columbia Opportunities Inc. and the Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood’s Early Literacy and Learning Network for teaming up to launch a new literacy campaign to provide books to more than 500 Columbia County children before they enter school.

As Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “we cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.” This program holds

great promise to help local families prepare their children for the future. After all, reading is a critical life skill that starts at home and is vital to success in school.

I encourage families to take advantage of this opportunity as well as other available resources, including our local public libraries. Books and libraries provide more than just access to information; they also provide access to lifelong learning and opportunities.

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Ralph Henry Moshimer Ralph Henry Moshimer Randy (Jeanine) Moshimer (1943-2020) and daughter Mekela (Joshua) VALATIE--Ralph H. Moshim- Flood. He was especially fond er, 76, of Valatie, passed away of his 4 grandchildren: Marissa on January 17, 2020. He was (Ennis) Simmons, Adrienne born October 9, 1943 in Pitts- Moshimer, Jesse Flood and Abfield, MA to Ralph and Doris igail Flood. He is also survived (Neissel) Moshimer. Ralph was by many other loved family a construction supervisor for members and friends. Ralph’s the Massachusetts Carpenter family thanks everyone who has Union until he retired in 1998. supported them since his stroke He oversaw large construction 3 months ago. They are grateprojects such as the ful to the staff of The Chatham High School.

Grand Rehabilitation He served as past chief and Nursing at Barnof the Canaan Fire Dewell for their dedication partment and was alto his care and rehab. ways willing to help They are also grateful neighbors and friends for the amazing support in need. He loved anyof family and friends thing related to the whose many visits outdoors. He enjoyed brightened his days Moshimer camping with his wife during that challenging and kids, hunting with time. his sons, granddaughter and Calling hours will be Thursbest friend George. Then there day, January 23, 2020 from 5pm was fishing, ice fishing and to 7pm at the French, Gifford, snowmobiling; not to mention Preiter & Blasl Funeral Home, watching wildlife from his fa- 25 Railroad Ave, Chatham, NY. vorite recliner when he couldn’t A private funeral service will be be out there in it. On April 16, held at a later date. Condolenc1966 he married Karen “Kandi” es may be conveyed at french(Satrape) Moshimer in Pitts- blasl.com. field, MA. They were married In Lieu of flowers contribu53 years. In addition to his lov- tions in Ralph’s name may be ing wife, survivors include: his made to the Canaan Protective sons, Scott (Wendy) Moshimer, Fire Company.

David Marshall Grandy David Marshall Grandy, passed away peacefully on January 19th, 2020 in Philmont NY. He was the widower of Elizabeth A. Grandy . They shared 46 years of marriage together. Born in Marlboro MA, he was the son of Harold and Beulah Grandy. He graduated from American International College. He served in the US Army from 1951-53. Before he retired, David was employed at IBM in Boca Raton FL in their Maintenance Department. David and Elizabeth moved to Philmont NY in 1993. They attended the Philmont United Methodist Church. He enjoyed fixing mechanical/electronic items and woodworking. Family members and neighbors were so grateful to the help they received. David was a member of the Hawthorne Valley Gnomes who made wooden toys for the annual Yuletide Fair. David is

survived by his daughters Melody (Roger) of Asheville NC and Caroline (Jim) of Philmont NY, his son Chris (Rose) of Wheaton IL and his grandchildren Tristan (Ariel), Andrew (Melissa), Megan, Emily, Annabel, Sarah Ruth, and Abigail Elizabeth. David enjoyed spending time with all of his family including his two great-grandchildren, Addison Elizabeth and Jackson David.

The funeral service will be held on Friday, January 24th at 10am at the Wenk Funeral Home on 21 Payn Ave in Chatham. Interment will follow in the Mellenville Union Cemetery In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Columbia Greene Humane Society, 111 Humane Society Road, Hudson NY 12534 or Hawthorne Valley School, 330 Route 21-C, Ghent NY 12075.

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Dorothy McQuade Hover Dorothy McQuade Hover left this life on January 19, 2020 at home. Born on March 1, 1927 to Frederick and Elizabeth Steuerwald McQuade, Dot lived most of her life in Spencertown moving to Chatham 40 years ago.

She was retired from Chatham Central School District having started her career as the school crossing guard in Spencertown and retiring as the School Lunch Manager. She was an active member of St. Lukes Church, Episcopal in Chatham having served in many capacities on vestry and Altar guild. She spent her life helping anyone in need.

Dot is survived by her children Frank (Barbara) of Boxford, ma; Edward (ann) of Murrell’s Inlet, S. Carolina; Dorothy of Ghent; Richard of Catskill; Margaret (Kevin Johnson) of Chatham,

15 grandchildren and 24 great grandchildren. She is also survived by her nephew David McQuade and her niece, Ivy Brockley. Beside her parents, she was predeceased by her husband Frank and her brother Rev. Frederick McQuade. Friends may call on her family at St. Luke’s Church Episcopal from 12 to 2 on Saturday, January 25th. A funeral service will follow at 2pm. With interment in Spencertown immediately following.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Dot’s name to either St. Luke’s Church, 12 Woodbridge Ave, Chatham, NY 12037 or the Austerlitz Historical Society, at 11550 State route 22, Austerlitz, NY 12017.

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Marilyn J. Neer Marilyn J. Neer – Niver, 87 of Copake NY passed away on Thursday January 16, 2020 at Fairview Commons in Gt. Barrington, MA. She was born on April 27, 1932 in Hudson NY to the late Henry and Ella (Piester) Alberti. Marilyn retired from the United States Postal Service in 1992.

She was pre deceased by her spouses, Fred Neer in 1984 and Kermit Niver in 2017 and also by two brothers, Harold and Kenneth Alberti. Survivors include her children and their spouses,

Reed (Penny) Neer, Bonnie (Milton) Spangler, Rita (Brian) Adrianos and Keith (Brenda) Neer.

The family would like to thank both Fairview Commons and Hospice for their compassionate care. Private services will be held at the convenience of the family. Interment will be in the Copake Cemetery.

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Joyce Marie Teator Joyce M. Teator of Hudson, N.Y. passed away peacefully on January 17, 2020 at Columbia Memorial Hospital, where she volunteered as a member of the Hospital Ladies Auxiliary. Joyce Marie was born on November 17, 1938 in Catskill, N.Y. to Raymond C. and Ruth H. Brooks (Schoonmaker). The family made a home in Athens, N.Y. where they operated a fruit farm on Schoharie Turnpike. Joyce graduated from CoxsackieAthens High School in 1955.

She went to work for New York State in Downtown Albany and began a career in public service.

In 1958, Joyce married David Teator of Hudson, NY. Soon after, they welcomed their 2 sons into the world, David A. Jr (Ruth) and Jeffrey A. Teator (Susan),

who both survive her. In 1964, social groups such as the Red Joyce began her dream job at Hatters of Hudson and the supHudson High School, first as a port group known to many as stenographer and later as the the Sassy Lassies. Joyce was secretary to the Principal. Joyce afforded the privilege of beretired from Hudson ing Nanny to six great High in 1998. She grandchildren, who alfound great joy in workso survive her. In addiing with the staff and tion, Joyce is survived students of the school by her sister Karen L. during her many years Templeton (Dennis) of there.

Catskill. She is also surAfter retirement, vived by brothers Ray Joyce stayed busy carBrooks (Rose) of Athing for her 5 grandchilens, George Brooks of Teator dren, volunteering at Clifton Park, and Walter St. Johns Emmanuel Lutheran Brooks (Kathryn) of Kinderhook, Church, as well as the Columbia and her grandchildren; Douglas Memorial Hospital Ladies Aux- Teator (Carina) of Troy, Nichoiliary. In 2005 her husband Da- las Teator and Zachary Teator vid passed away. They enjoyed (Lydia), both of Gilbertsville, 47 years of marriage. In recent Pa., Stephanie Gaylord (Aaron) years she became involved with of Spencertown, and David

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Teator III (Ashley) of Castleton. Joyce was predeceased by a sister, Joanne Bullis along with her parents. Joyce’s many nieces and nephews, friends and neighbors, also mourn her passing.

Please join us in celebrating Joyce’s life on Thursday, January 23rd from 4-7pm at Bates & Anderson Funeral Parlor Green St. Hudson, N.Y. A mass will be celebrated on Friday January 24th at 10am from St. John’s Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 6th St. in Hudson, N.Y. Joyce’s cremated remains will be interred at Mellenville Union Cemetery immediately following her service. Memorial contributions in her name can be made to Columbia Memorial Hospital Ladies Auxiliary.

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Trump falsely claims House Democrats didn’t want impeachment testimony from Bolton

By Chris Sommerfeldt New York Daily News

President Donald Trump falsely claimed Monday that House Democrats didn’t try to secure testimony from former national security adviser John Bolton as part of their impeachment inquiry, accusing them of being “in too much of a rush.”

Trump’s assertion comes as Senate Democrats are pushing for Bolton to be subpoenaed for testimony in the president’s impeachment trial, which is set to start in earnest Tuesday.

“They didn’t want John Bolton and others in the House,” Trump tweeted. “They were in too much of a rush.

Now they want them all in the Senate. Not supposed to be that way!”

The president also took a factually dubious dig at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who says he will force votes as early as Tuesday on calling witnesses like Bolton for trial testimony if his Republican colleagues refuse to make such a commitment off the bat.

“Cryin’ Chuck Schumer is now asking for ‘fairness’, when he and the Democrat House members worked together to make sure I got ZERO fairness in the House. So, what else is new?” Trump posted, even though he refused an offer from Democrats to participate in the second half of the impeachment inquiry.

House Democrats requested documents and testimony from Bolton as part of their three-month inquiry into the president’s pressure campaign for Ukrainian investigations of Joe Biden and other Democratic rivals.

But Trump ordered Bolton and several other former and current administration officials to stonewall any and all House

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impeachment requests for testimony and records.

Bolton complied with Trump’s orders and made it clear to Democrats that he would take them to court if they subpoenaed him, reasoning that a federal judge should decide which party to listen to.

Acknowledging that such a court case would likely drag on for months, Democrats never subpoenaed Bolton before impeaching Trump on Dec. 18 on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

Since then, Bolton has announced he’s willing to testify at Trump’s Senate impeachment trial if he’s subpoenaed.

Bolton cited his change of heart to a court case involving Charles Kupperman, his former deputy on the White House National Security Council.

Kupperman was

subpoenaed in the House impeachment inquiry, but followed Trump’s orders and asked a federal judge to decide who he should listen to.

In late December, the judge declared Kupperman’s case moot without delivering a final verdict, and Bolton said that was good enough for him to testify in the Senate trial.

Schumer and other Senate Democrats want testimony from Bolton, White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and two other White House officials who never testified in the House.

Bolton and Mulvaney have been described in testimony as some of the most important firsthand witnesses of Trump’s attempts to pressure Ukraine’s president to announce investigations of Biden and a Russiapromoted conspiracy theory

Suspected ‘Pillowcase Rapist’ who terrorized South Florida women in early 1980s arrested

By David Ovalle Miami Herald (TNS) MIAMI — Authorities have arrested a man they believe is the notorious Pillowcase Rapist, who was blamed for attacking over 40 women in South Florida during the early 1980s.

Law enforcement sources identified the suspect as 60-year-old Robert Eugene Koehler, a registered sex offender from Palm Bay. He was arrested on Saturday and is being held at a jail in Brevard County to await transfer to Miami-Dade.

The Pillowcase Rapist terrorized women from South Miami to Deerfield Beach between May 1981 and February 1986. Using a pillowcase, towel or shirt to hide his identity, the rapist broke into town homes and apartments and attacked at least 44 women.

But for years, detectives could not identify the Pillowcase Rapist, despite a large-scale manhunt. Detectives conducted stakeouts,

checked hundreds of leads, passed out fliers and even created a sculpture from one victim who saw his face.

Investigators also explored the possibility that the attacks may have been committed by more than one rapist. The task force created to find the attacker was ultimately disbanded in 1987.

At the time, police detectives said the rapist was likely young, athletic and white and with no discernible accent.

From lab tests, they concluded his blood type was O, but with a rare subgrouping characteristic found in 1% of the population. They also knew he wore a size 10 ½ shoe.

Among his victims were a schoolteacher, nurse, airline flight attendant, artist, model, health spa instructor, insurance executive, publicist and student. All but one lived in townhouses or apartments.

He usually entered their homes through unlocked sliding glass doors and open windows, threatening them

with a knife, assaulting them quickly and sometimes stealing cash.

Details of what led police to Koehler remained unknown on Monday. The case was investigated by Miami-Dade police, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Koehler would have been in his early 20s during the sexattack spree. FDLE lists him as a registered sex offender for a sexual battery conviction in 1991 in Palm Beach County.

Edna Buchanan, the Miami Herald’s legendary crime reporter, wrote a string of stories first linking the spree of attacks and spurring police to form a task force in March 1986 to hunt for the rapist. It was disbanded a little more than a year later without tracking down a suspect. Buchanan’s coverage of the case was part of her work that won her the Pulitzer Prize for general news reporting in 1986.

about the 2016 election while holding up $391 million in U.S. military aid as leverage.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has yet to unveil his proposed blueprint for a trial. He has previously said he wants to shelve all votes on potentially calling new witnesses until opening arguments are over.

On Sunday, Schumer said he will force votes Tuesday if McConnell follows through on that pledge in his proposal.

“We are going to do it at the beginning on Tuesday if leader McConnell doesn’t call for these witnesses in his proposal,” Schumer said during a press conference in New York.

“Then if they say well let’s wait and hear the arguments we’ll want a vote after they hear the arguments as well and we will do everything we can to force votes again.” (c)2020 New York Daily News Visit New York Daily News at www. nydailynews.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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Helpers for Health: Learning to live your healthiest life

CELEBRATING BIRTHDAYS AT BREAKFAST

By Kelly McGiffert, Project Coordinator For Columbia-Greene Media

The Healthcare Consortium is excited to announce a new program to help you get and stay healthy called Helpers for Health. The Helpers for Health Project was formed in April 2019 and represents a transition of the SUNY Women’s Health Projectably — led for many years by our friends and colleagues, Dr. Annis Golden and Jeanette Johnson — to the Healthcare Consortium. We feel honored and privileged to provide a home to the project, which has done so much good in our community for so long.

The Helpers for Health program focuses on connecting men, women and children to healthcare services. Individuals and families in Columbia and Greene Counties can get help with things like understanding how to use health insurance, finding a doctor, scheduling medical appointments, and arranging transportation.

To do this work, we rely on Community Health Workers (CHWs). Community Health Workers are frontline public health workers who are trusted members of a community with a close understanding of its history, language, and traditions. The role of CHWs is to help people in their own communities access the health and human services they may need to both get — and stay — healthy.

At the Healthcare Consortium, we call our CHWs

“Helpers.” Through our Helpers for Health Project, our Helpers assist individuals and families in a variety of ways.

They provide information, education, coaching, advocacy, and assistance.

For instance, Helpers can help clients to find: n Primary care providers n Specialists n Dentists n Eye doctors n Counselors/therapists n Pharmacies In addition, the Helpers can assist clients with the following: Understanding health insurance terms; Learning how to use health insurance and making use of all its benefits; Scheduling medical appointments; Arranging medical transportation, childcare and interpretation services; Setting health goals and making a plan to achieve them.

The Helpers also conduct outreach and group-directed health promotion and health education work.

Since the Helpers for Health Project began individual service delivery back in May, assistance has been provided to over 300 people, primarily in finding providers, pharmacies, medical transportation, understanding new health insurance plans and terms and learning how to use health insurance.

The Helpers provide free, one-on-one service,

regardless of income or insurance status. We do not bill your health insurance, and you do not have to be receiving Medicaid benefits to be eligible for help. The services offered by the Helpers for Health are available to all of the residents of Columbia and Greene Counties. Clients can be assisted by phone or in-person at a location that is most convenient for them (for example, a local library).

Helpers for Health is housed at the Healthcare Consortium’s main office on the second floor of the Human Services Building at 325 Columbia Street, Hudson.

This allows close coordination between the Project and other agency programs, including our Navigator, NY Connects, and Transportation Programs.

If you are interested in receiving help, contact Helpers for Health Project Coordinator, Kelly McGiffert, by phone at 518-822-8820 or via email at kmcgiffert@columbiahealthnet.org. We are on a mission to help you be a healthier you.

The Healthcare Consortium is a non-profit organization with a mission of improving access to healthcare and supporting the health and well-being of the residents in our rural community. The agency is located at 325 Columbia St. in Hudson. For more information: visit www.columbiahealthnet.org or call 518-822-8820.

Margaretville Hospital to hold addiction action summit Jan. 24 MARGARETVILLE — Margaretville Hospital, a member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth), invites the public to participate in a free, four-county summit on Jan. 24 to exchange ideas about how to deter opioid misuse in the Catskills and how to help people deeply touched by the crisis. The summit will be held 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Jan. 24 at the MTC Community Center, 61 Academy St., Margaretville.

The second Addiction Action Summit, led by Margaretville Hospital, a member of the Catskills Addiction Coalition, is expected to include adolescents and young adults, people who use drugs and people in recovery, social and human services specialists, clinicians and religious leaders, educators and lawmakers, law enforcement officials and media representatives, and other individuals and groups from Delaware, Ulster, Sullivan and Greene counties with an interest in curbing and ultimately ending the opioid crisis and other substance-related disorders in the region.

“Individuals, families and communities all across the Catskills are severely affected by this crisis,” says Kenneth Oclatis, Ph.D., Director of Outpatient Behavioral Health

Services for WMCHealth and a member of the Catskills Addiction Coalition. “We believe people in the communities themselves are the best source of ideas for developing the most innovative approaches to reversing the crisis in our area.”

The Catskills region has been especially hard-hit by the national opioid overdose crisis, with the number of people dying in the region from opioid-related overdoses much higher than New York State and U.S. national averages.

Ulster County led the state in overdose deaths in 2016, when 54 people died of overdoses, while Delaware County had the highest rate that year of “neonatal withdrawal,” a syndrome among infants caused by in-utero exposure to opioids taken by their mothers.* Sullivan County’s death rate from opioids spiked alarmingly in 2018 to 30 overdose deaths, rivaling some of the highest overdose rates in the country. Ulster’s death number was 56. The two counties recorded some of the highest death rates from opioid overdoses in the state.* And Greene County had the state’s highest heroin-overdose death rate outside New York City in 2016, at 17.4 people for

every 100,000.* Summit participants in Margaretville will be invited to break into small groups to tackle specific issues, which may include: Affordable child care; Co-occurring conditions; Criminal justice reform; Food security; Harm reduction; Health insurance coverage; Livable wages; Local treatment options; Mental health; Prescribing practices; Quality education; Recoveryfriendly businesses; Safe housing; Social cohesion; Social determinants of health; Social support; Stigma reduction and education; Youth engagement.

The coalition is made up of Margaretville Hospital, the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office, Roxbury Central School, Friends of Recovery of Delaware and Otsego Counties, the Mark Project, the Catskills Recreation Center, Samadhi Recovery Outreach Center, the Ulster County Opioid Response as County Law Enforcement (ORACLE) Program, and the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Council of Delaware County.

Free breakfast and lunch will be served. To register for the summit, call Margaretville Hospital at 845-586-2631, ext.

3114, or sign up at catskillsaddictioncoalition.org.

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Honeyford Memorial American Legion Post 110 celebrated the birthdays of two members at their recent monthly breakfast Jan. 14 at the Ambrosia Diner. Richard Schloss turns 88 and Charles Israelian will be 93.

Seventh annual blood drive in memory of Stephen E. Ives ALBANY — An American Red Cross blood drive will be held 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Jan. 25, in memory of Stephen E. Ives, who passed away in 2013 from acute myeloid leukemia at the age of 62.

The blood drive will be held at the Glens Falls Elks Lodge 81, 32 Cronin Road, Queensbury.

Friends remember

Stephen Ives as a man who lived each day to the fullest, he loved his family and looked forward to getting together with them often.

He spent much of his time outdoors golfing and fishing.

Painting and drawing were also a source of joy to him.

Ives’ treatment for acute myeloid leukemia required considerable quantities of

donated blood and platelets.

Because of these transfusions, he was given an opportunity to not only spend time with his loved ones, but a chance to battle the disease.

To make an appointment to donate, download the Blood Donor App, call 1-800RED CROSS or visit redcrossblood.org.

Hudson Valley Community College announces fall 2019 dean’s list TROY — More than 1,000 students were named to the Fall 2019 dean’s l ist at Hudson Valley Community College.

Olivia Scully of Athens, Russell VanHoesen of Athens, Kelly Byrne of Cairo, Christopher Kirsch of Cairo, Laura Miller of Catskill, Mya Speller of Catskill, Madeline

McTigue of Coeymans Hollow, Olivia Bradt of Coxsackie, Justin Hatch of Coxsackie, Michael Jewett of Coxsackie, Mark Lewis of Coxsackie, Josephine Mattraw Johnston of Coxsackie, Emily Nazi of Coxsackie, Erwin Lampman of Earlton, Samuel Mataraza of Earlton, Jessica Scarlata of Earlton, Michael Cassidy of

East Durham, Sonia Alexander of Elka Park, Alexandra Cullen of Freehold, Zoe Mullen of Freehold, Cameron Baitsholts of Greenville, Jackson Dushane of Greenville, Donal O’Flynn of Greenville, Garrett Ingraham of Hannacroix, Sylvia Vitoulis of Leeds, Garth Aull of Prattsville, Margaret Kilts of West Coxsackie.

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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 518795-7491 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. We will also discuss the science behind maple sugaring, how to bottle your finished product and options for expanding your operation once you are hooked on this very sweet hobby. Members, free; non-members, $10. No reservations necessary. For information, call 518-5893903.

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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Surviving a no-spend month Could you survive a nospend month?

Would you take on a 30-day challenge to spend money only on necessities such as rent, utilities, and groceries? During a no-spend month, many common activities — including dining out, buying movie or concert tickets, and shopping for clothes — are avoided at all costs.

The idea behind a 30-day challenge is that the time period is just long enough to help change bad habits without seeming intolerable. If frugality isn’t normally your forte, closely scrutinizing your spending could reap hundreds of dollars in savings.

More important, it could help identify ways you might be wasting money on a regular basis. Start by setting a positive goal for the money. Will you use the extra savings to pay down credit card debt or build up an emergency fund?

Here are some other ways to prepare for a successful challenge. Time it right. Periods

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BARTHOLOMEW that include major holidays, planned vacations from work, and family birthdays are probably not the best for taking on this type of household experiment. On the other hand, it could be ideal to begin the new year with a “fiscal fast.” Establish rules. Take your fixed expenses (i.e., rent/ mortgage, utilities, phone bill, insurance payments) into account when planning your no-spend month. Evaluate your typical monthly discretionary spending to figure out where you can reduce or eliminate your spending for the month.

Plan to break patterns. Fill up your freezer and pantry with groceries and collect ideas for easy homemade meals. Steer clear of your personal spending triggers, which could mean staying off the internet or waiting until later to meet up with friends who are big spenders. Seek out free and fun entertainment. You don’t have to stay home for an entire month.

Spend the day visiting a public park or beach, or look for free concerts, outdoor movies, art festivals, workshops, and other special events hosted by community groups. Stay focused. When you get tempted to spend, remember your goal for the money you’ve saved.

Keep a record of your progress to have a tangible reminder that your efforts will pay off.

Tim Bartholomew is an Investment Representative with Greene Investment Services located at the Bank of Greene County. Please call 518-943-2600 ext. 2153 with your comments or questions.

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RPM Raceway celebrated the grand opening of its authentic racing experience at the Poughkeepsie Galleria on Jan. 13. RPM Raceway president and co-owner Karen Davis-Farage welcomed local dignitaries, members of the community and media to the brand new location. The destination features more than 40,000 square feet of adventure including a quarter-mile European-style racing track, racing simulator and state-of-the-art arcade with a redemption counter. Here, Ciara Mulligan of Senator Serino’s office presented a Certificate of Recognition to Karen Davis-Farage, president and co-owner of RPM Raceway.

Comptroller announces director of Sustainable Investments and Climate Solutions appointed ALBANY — New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli announced that Andrew Siwo has joined the New York State Common Retirement Fund (Fund) as its first-ever director of Sustainable Investments and Climate Solutions to support the implementation of the Fund’s Climate Action Plan.

“We are fortunate to have Andrew Siwo’s experience and expertise to help advance the Fund’s ongoing pursuit of smart climate-related investments,” DiNapoli said. “Climate change is an increasingly urgent risk facing all investors, and I am determined to protect New York State’s pension fund by keeping it at the forefront of those addressing it.

Andrew will be a great asset in sourcing investment opportunities in the growing lower carbon global economy.”

“Investors who fail to take advantage of the growth in

climate investing may miss out on a chance to strengthen their portfolios,” said the Fund’s Chief Investment Officer Anastasia Titarchuk.

“Andrew brings in-house the expertise and insight we need to significantly expand our climate solutions portfolio.”

“Comptroller DiNapoli’s innovative Climate Action Plan puts New York’s pension fund at the forefront of the low carbon economy,” Siwo said.

“I have spent much of my career sourcing, assessing, and managing sustainable investments and am looking forward to growing the Fund’s sustainable investments portfolio.”

The Fund’s Sustainable Investments and Climate Solutions Program Director will report directly to the CIO and will oversee an outstanding $12 billion commitment to the Climate Solutions Program, working in partnership with all asset class teams. In addition,

the director will provide internal training to investment teams on sustainable investing to further integrate ESG factors into investment selection decisions.

Siwo has worked on Wall Street for nearly 15 years. Most recently, he was an investment director and head of MissionRelated Investing at Colonial Consulting, focusing on SRI, ESG and impact investments.

Prior to that, Siwo was a manager at the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), where he validated impact investment funds and curated an impact investing platform designed for institutional investors and fund managers.

Siwo began his career on Wall Street in the investment banking division at JPMorgan. He graduated cum laude from Morehouse College and holds an MPA in Finance and Fiscal Policy from Cornell University.

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New director appointed to Bard Globalization and International Affairs program ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON — Bard College announces the appointment of Elmira Bayrasli as the new director of the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program (BGIA) in New York City.

BGIA provides a unique opportunity for college students and recent college graduates from around the world to take advanced courses in international affairs while working in carefully selected internships based on individual interests. BGIA students engage in the study and practice of international law; international relations theory; global public health; political economy; international reporting; and other aspects of international affairs.

Bayrasli has taught in the program for the past four years. She is the co-founder

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of Foreign Policy Interrupted and the host of Project Syndicate’s podcast, Opinion Has It. She is the author of “From the Other Side of the World: Extraordinary Entrepreneurs, Unlikely Places,” a book that looks at the rise of entrepreneurship

globally. Bayrasli has lived in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, where she was the chief spokesperson for the OSCE Mission.

From 1994-2000 she was presidential appointee at the U.S. State Department, working for Madeleine Albright and Richard Holbrooke, respectively.

Elmira is a regular contributor on global entrepreneurship for Techcrunch.

She also provides analysis on foreign policy, particularly on Turkey. Her work has appeared in Reuters, Foreign Affairs, Washington Post, Quartz, Fortune, Forbes, CNN, NPR, BBC, Al Jazeera, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. Bayrasli sits on several boards, including Invest2Innovate, Turkish Women’s International Network, and Our Secure Future.

CADE and SUNY Cobleskill taking registration for workshop COBLESKILL - The Center for Agricultural Development and Entrepreneurship (CADE) and SUNY Cobleskill invite Farm and Food Business Entrepreneurs to register for the annual business workshop series, which runs from Jan. 25 through March 7.

“The workshop series is intended to assist agribusinesses with a full range of their business needs--from instruction on developing business plans to secure loans and grants, to polishing up their marketing and branding, to identifying and securing new markets, to developing and piloting new value-added product lines, to supporting farmers-especially dairy farmers--to consider growing new products like grains where there’s a high market demand,” says Jim Manning, CADE’s lead for running the Incubator.

For nearly 30 years, CADE has been working with entrepreneurs to build stronger, more viable farm businesses.

SUNY Cobleskill is one of the leading agricultural colleges in the Northeast and is the home of new farm and food business incubation facilities including commercial kitchens and licensed dairy and meat processing facilities.

The Farm and Food Business Incubator (FFBI) is a partnership between CADE and SUNY Cobleskill launched in 2016 and is a New York State certified business incubator designated by NYSTAR. Together, CADE and SUNY Cobleskill identify the technological and commercialization needs of regional producers, conduct outreach and education activities, organize interested businesses into cooperative groups, and secure financial support to move projects into production.

The number of entrepreneurs benefitting from Incubator services has been growing year by year, says Schreiner. “Last year we served nearly 400 clients, up from around 200 the year before.”

This year’s Business Planning workshop series consists of three consecutive Saturday morning sessions and a final workshop in the Business Planning series brings all of this material together: January 25: Business Planning 1: Introduction; February 1: Business Planning 2: Operations; February 8: Business Planning 3; Marketing; March 14: Business Planning 4:

Putting it all together, including cash flow projections.

There will also be two special Saturday workshops for entrepreneurs interested in developing a value-added business: February 22: Product development, rules and regulations, and marketing for value-added products (please note this workshop will take place on the SUNY Cobleskill campus); March 7: Valueadded grains as an alternative enterprise.

For complete details on these FREE workshops, and to register, go to www.cadefarms.org/2020-incubator-workshops. Each of the workshop sessions will be facilitated by CADE staff and specialist presenters on the topic at hand. Our workshops are interactive, hands-on, and built around real-world examples and case studies.

Participants are encouraged to bring and share examples and questions from their own experiences and plans.

There is no charge for any of the workshops in the series, but pre-registration is required. Except where noted, the workshops will be held at CADE’s Oneonta office location at 189 Main Street, 5th Floor, Oneonta.

Nuvance Health appoints new president of Vassar Brothers Medical Center POUGHKEEPSIE — Joseph J. Mullany has joined Nuvance Health as Vassar Brothers Medical Center president, effective Jan. 6.

“Joe is a strategic and visionary healthcare leader with more than 25 years of success leading complex organizations to excel in highquality and safe healthcare with a high level of service,” said Kerry Eaton, chief operating officer of Vassar’s parent organization, Nuvance Health.

“He has a strong track record of enhancing operational performance in a wide variety of areas.”

Most recently, Mullany was president and CEO at Bayfront Health Systems in St. Petersburg, Fla., where he transformed a collection of seven independent hospitals into an integrated health system.

Prior to that, he served

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as president and CEO at Detroit Medical Center, a 2,100-bed academic health system with eight hospitals, five surgery centers and approximately 14,000 employees.

“This is an exciting time to join the Hudson Valley community and to begin work with the talented Vassar Brothers Medical Center

physicians, nurses and other staff to further enhance the high quality of care and services offered,” Mullany said.

“There is extraordinary work underway as the new patient pavilion gets set to open later in 2020 and collaborative new thinking and innovations will tie in perfectly with economic development and other initiatives. Vassar Brothers is the destination of choice for healthcare in the region.”

Mullany earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Wake Forest University in 1986 and a Master of Health Science degree and MBA from the University of Florida in 1989.

He has been named a “Top 100 Most Influential Healthcare Leader” by Modern Healthcare and was a Crain’s “Newsmaker of the Year.”

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2 dead, 15 wounded in shooting outside Kansas City bar, police say Michael Brice-Saddler The Washington Post

Two people were killed and 15 others wounded Sunday in Kansas City, Missouri, when a gunman opened fire on a line of people waiting outside a bar, police said.

Capt. David Jackson of the Kansas City Police Department told reporters that officers were called in from all over the Missouri metro area when the shooting began about 11:30 p.m., adding that they arrived at a “chaotic scene.”

Jackson said a man and woman were found dead in a parking lot soon after.

“As the investigation unfolded, at least 15 other victims arrived at area hospitals,” police said in a tweet about 6 a.m. Monday. Three of the victims are in critical condition, he added.

Police said an armed security guard engaged the assailant outside the bar, but few other details were immediately available Monday morning. The department said it thinks the gunman was the deceased man.

“A preliminary investigation shows that there was a line of people to get into the establishment and that the suspect approached the line and started shooting into the line,” Jackson said. “We don’t know if he was targeting a specific person or if there was a relationship or anything that led up to that.”

Citing local media outlets, the Associated Press identified the bar as the 9ine Ultra Lounge. Before the shooting, a Facebook page associated with the lounge advertised an event that appeared to be a celebration of the Kansas City Chiefs football team, which advanced

to the Super Bowl on Sunday after beating the Tennessee Titans.

Jean Peters Baker, the prosecutor for Jackson County, Missouri, told reporters that the shooting marked a “tragic end to such a wonderful day in Kansas City.”

“It’s hard to stand here and talk about this kind of tragedy on really one of the best days Kansas City has had in a long time,” she added.

The shooting in Kansas City followed a series of violent incidents Sunday throughout the United States. On Sunday morning, two police officers in Honolulu were fatally shot near the base of a volcanic crater. A fire was started and quickly spread, destroying five homes. A neighbor told the Associated Press that a woman who had filed four days earlier to evict the alleged gunman left in an ambulance with stab

wounds.

The two slain officers were Tiffany Enriquez, who was with the Honolulu police for seven years, and Kaulike Kalama, who was on the force for nine years, Honolulu Police Chief Susan Ballard said at a news conference Sunday.

Another shooting Sunday night inside a San Antonio club left two dead and five injured after an assailant began firing “indiscriminately” inside, police said. All of the victims were patrons.

That incident was apparently preceded by an argument, though police provided few details.

Police were still searching for the assailant Sunday night.

“I’m confident we will identify the individual and have that person in custody sooner than later,” San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said.

Millennials’ share of the U.S. housing market: small and shrinking Christopher Ingraham The Washington Post

Today’s young adults are starting their lives on drastically different financial footing than their parents did decades ago. Necessities cost far more and wages have flattened; as a result, many young families have to dig through mountains of debt before they can even think about growing their wealth.

A data point from the Federal Reserve, highlighted recently in a special report on housing by the Economist, underscores the differences between

millennials’ financial trajectory and those of earlier generations: In 1990, baby boomers, whose median age was 35, owned nearly one-third of American real estate by value.

In 2019, the millennial generation, with a median age of 31, owned just 4 percent.

Millennials, many of whom are entering their prime home-buying years, are likely to make up some of that gap by the time they see 35. But they’re not likely to reach 30 percent of the housing market - or even the 20 percent attained by the smaller Generation X at

the same point in their lives.

Because homeownership is the chief builder of wealth for middle class families, if this trend continues “we’re looking at a generation that will have lower lifetime wealth,” said Jenny Schuetz, a housing policy expert at the Brookings Institution. “That’s bad news for the economy overall, not just millennials,” she added.

The challenge facing would-be millennial home buyers is two-pronged.

In many of America’s most desirable cities, the median price of a home is well beyond the reach of a typical

salary. For the past several decades, developers in major metro areas like New York City have built a glut of luxury condos while ignoring the needs of the middle class. Strict land use and zoning regulations, as well as opposition to new development by many existing homeowners, have exacerbated the problem.

Millennials’ massive debt burdens also make it difficult to them to save for a down payment at any housing price.

For households headed by someone younger than 35, median debt ballooned from $21,000 in 1989 to $39,000

in 2016. During that same time period, the percentage of under-35 households with student loan debt more than doubled, from 17 percent to 45 percent, and their median debt more than tripled, from $5,600 to $18,500.

These factors are propelling us toward an inflection point. As baby boomers slowly age out of homeownership, a projected $13.5 trillion in housing inventory will come on the market in the coming years. But millennials and younger generations might not be able to afford them.

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temperatures to douse the flames. It took around four hours to extinguish the fire.

Because of the bitterly cold temperatures, the Greene County Hazardous Materials Team was called in to provide a warming tent.

“Our members are really cold, pumps are freezing, so that is our biggest hassle right now,” Cairo Fire Chief Ray Feml said at the scene Saturday.

Eight fire companies provided mutual aid and battled the fire. Cairo, Round Top, Leeds, East Durham, Freehold, Greenville, Oak HillDurham and Windham fire departments responded to the scene along with Greene County Paramedics and Cairo Ambulance personnel.

The fire is being investigated by the Greene County Sheriff’s Office, Greene County Cause and Origin

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Medical Plaza West, would add to services now provided at Greene Medical Arts, as well as other CMH-owned facilities throughout Greene County, including CMH primary care clinics in Windham, Cairo and

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access in rural areas has been a priority of Delgado’s during his time in office.

The Rhinebeck congressman in October held a congressional field hearing to

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Smoke pours from the home as firefighters battle the blaze.

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Firefighters on the scene of a fatal fire in Cairo this weekend.

Team and the Hazmat team.

The Greene County Fire Investigation Team and state fire investigators also were called to the scene.

The sheriff’s office is being assisted by state police and the Cairo Police Department.

Lance Wheeler contributed to this report.

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

First responders from Freehold and Greenville fire departments were among those providing mutual aid in Saturday’s fire.

Coxsackie.

“While it is still early in the process, we are envisioning with this new site to add to those services,” Van Slyke said. “We are finalizing services that would be likely for the location, but that will take some months to complete.”

CMH is working on plans for the site, and specifics, such as the size or design of

the building, as well as services that would be offered, have not been finalized. More details may become available later this year, officials said.

“Over the last decade, CMH has invested heavily in Greene County services and locations,” said Cahalan, a long-time resident of Greene County. “Thanks to the good work and vision of the Greene

County IDA, and strong support for CMH initiatives by business leaders and local government, this project will add additional health care resources, and further expand health care service offerings in Greene County.”

Eric Hoglund, chairman of the Greene County IDA, said a medical plaza would be a good addition to the county and the

services available to its residents.

“The availability of medical services is a key factor in attracting new business to the county,” Hoglund said. “In our experience, corporate site selectors are strongly interested in investing in communities where their employees will have access to quality housing, recreation and medical

care, and we are pleased to help CMH with their vision for the medical plaza.”

The site, located on the west side of the Thruway, is opposite another vacant IDAowned site, dubbed the Exit 21 East Site — where the former Quality Inn once stood before being razed last year, and where the IDA is hoping to attract a hotel developer.

address the issue at Columbia-Greene Community College, which was attended by FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks. He heard from educators, medical professionals, small business owners and broadband providers in his district about the ways in which broadband access to provide economic,

educational and health prosperity, and the challenges in providing it.

Delgado then announced a package of legislation that would improve issues with broadband mapping procedures: the Broadband Speed Act, to enforce factual advertising of speed rates for rural areas, and the Community

Broadband Mapping Act, to adjust the current one-served, all-served measurement flaw.

“Our rural communities need broadband internet that is accessible, reliable, and matches their internet needs and these measures are important steps to closing the digital divide,” Delgado said when he announced the bills

in October.

Also in October, Delgado co-authored yet another bipartisan letter to leaders of the Senate and House appropriations subcommittees on rural issues, calling on them to designate $605 million to ReConnect. The program itself offers loans and grants to businesses and local officials to expand

broadband in underserved, rural areas.

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Catskill’s Aaliyah Shook drives to the basket during Friday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game against Chatham.

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CHATHAM — The Catskill Lady Cats visited the Lady Panthers of Chatham on Friday night and escaped with a 52-49 Patroon Conference victory.

Janay Brantley led both teams in scoring with 29 points in this nail-biter.

Much of the first period was full of great defense, and each team forcing the other to settle for low percentage shots.

With only a few seconds remaining in the first, Catskill hit a three pointer and converted one of two free throws to end the quarter with a 13-10 lead.

The Cats worked their way to better looks in the second, and took advantage of extra chances when they could. But the Panthers stayed with the Cats for the duration of the period, and scored a few buckets themselves before halftime to cut Catskill’s lead to 25-19 going into the locker room.

The third quarter began with the Cats failing to box out the Panthers for rebounds on multiple occasions, giving Chatham an advantage over them in the painted area.

With the Panthers down 12 points with under 3:00 to play in the quarter, they fought their way back held the Cats to 4 points for the rest of the period. Chatham made two important free throws to end the third, and were down just five points, 4237, going into the final eight minutes.

The Cats maintained a seven point cushion for the first few minutes of the fourth

CATSKILL — Lavon Fernandez and Leviticus Johnson combined for 42 points to spark Catskill to a 70-44 victory over Chatham in Friday’s Patroon Conference boys basketball game.

Fernandez finished with 22 points and Johnson had 20 for the Cats (10-0, 11-1).

DeVon Haye chipped in with 13.

Kendrick Clarke topped Chatham with 14 points.

Quinten Kastner added 12.

Cat skill led 20-13 at the end of one quarter, then broke the game open with a 20-2 scoring advantage in the second stanza. The Cats led 54-29 through three quarters.

CHATHAM (44): Baccaro 1-0-2, Clarke 7-0-14, Ford 0-3-3, Gregg 2-0-6, Kastner 5-1-12, Talbott 1-0-2, Thorsen 1-0-3, Williams 0-2-2. Totals 17-6-44.

3-pointers: Gregg 2, Kastner, Thorsen.

CATSKILL (70): Christian 1-02, Donely 1-0-2, Fernandez 8-6-22, Haye 5-0-13, Johnson 5-9-20, Lowe-Scott 1-1-3, Lyles 1-0-2, Scott 3-0-6. Totals 25-16-70.

3-pointers: Haye 3.

Hudson 74, Cairo-Durham 38 HUDSON — Hudson earned its fourth straight victory on Friday with a 74-38 Patroon Conference boys basketball victory over Cairo-Durham.

Sophomore Isaiah Maines’ 24-point effort

topped the Bluehawks (72, 8-5), who built quarterly leads of 21-15, 36-26 and 52-26.

Dayquan Griffin had 12 points for Hudson. Vic Gorman added nine and George DeJesus had eight.

Ethan Phillips’ 12 points led Cairo-Durham. Ethan Handel contributed 11.

CAIRO-DURHAM (38): Doble 3-0-7, Handel 5-111, Leo 2-0-4, Mintinski 1-0-2, Morgan 0-2-2, Phillips 5-1-12. Totals 16-4-38.

3-pointers: Doble, Phillips.

HUDSON (74): Anderson 1-2-5, Daly 1-0-3, DeJesus 3-0-8, Gorman 3-0-9, Griffin 5-1-12, Hedgepeth 1-2-5, Johnsn 1-0-2, Maines 10-3-24, Romano 3-0-6. Totals 28-8-74.

3-pointers: Gorman 3, DeJesus 2, Anderson, Daly, Griffin, Hedgepeth, Maines.

Rensselaer 62, Maple Hill 58 CASTLETON — Ramell Johnson, Samir Lockhart and Patrick Sullivan combined for all but four of Rensselaer’s points as the Rams edged Maple Hill, 62-58, in Friday’s Patroon Conference boys basketball game.

Johnson had 25 points, Lockhart 19 and Sullivan 14 for the Rams.

Rian Jewett’s 29 points led Maple Hill. Ben Marra added 12.

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The 49ers are the NFL’s biggest bully, and even Aaron Rodgers couldn’t stand up to them Jerry Brewer The Washington Post

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Chatham’s Hailey Cascioli (11) defends against Catskill’s Kiana Salierno during See BRANTLEY B3 Friday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — There was the thought, as nostalgia drifted into minds, that maybe Aaron Rodgers had some vintage greatness under his sleeve. Maybe he could do something magical. Maybe he could avenge his worst performance of the regular season, find a way to hogtie the San Francisco 49ers’ mammoth defense and transform this NFC championship game into

a triumphant homecoming.

It was a cute, fleeting thought.

On Sunday, with a Super Bowl berth at stake, the 49ers bludgeoned all quarterbacking fairy tales with their brand of harsh reality. They pounded Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers, 37-20. They led 27-0 at halftime and needed only eight total pass attempts from their quarterback, Jimmy See 49ERS B3

Putting team on his back, Mahomes refuses to lose AFC title game again Sally Jenkins The Washington Post

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs are some large men to carry, but that’s what Patrick Mahomes did, all the way to their first Super Bowl in 50 years. Sometimes he did it by nimbly running along the sidelines for another first down. Sometimes he did it with his slinging passes from that strangely supple, hybrid arm. But mostly he did it with that great thumping organ in his chest, the one that makes him play so carefree from behind.

The little shreds of paper kept floating down prematurely, as if the confetti operator was too impatient to wait after all this time. Arrowhead Stadium was a huge undulating dash of color in the otherwise dun-colored tundra, the field frozen hard by a 5-degree wind chill. But the 24-year-old Mahomes kept animating it and heating the crowd into a frenzied boil with his escapades, until the beat of applause from their glove-padded hands and their bellowing roar of satisfaction was constant.

He stood in the middle of it all with his arms upraised in triumph after a 35-24 victory over the Tennessee Titans, and the paper flooded down, and he was carried away in a tide of lights and cameras.

Again, Mahomes had brought the Chiefs

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Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) celebrates with the Lamar Hunt Trophy after beating the Tennessee Titans in the AFC Championship Game at Arrowhead Stadium.

from behind. Again, he was not only their leader but their leading everything - throwing for

three touchdowns and running for another, that extraordinary 27-yard jaunt just before

halftime that galvanized them after they had trailed by 10 points. Again, he was their vengeful soul.

“You could see the entire team looking to him when times were darkest,” team owner Clark Hunt said.

Other players mattered hugely, of course.

The Honey Badger, safety Tyrann Mathieu, who never stopped jump-jacking all over the field. Wide receivers Tyreek Hill, so fast he almost flickered, and Sammy Watkins, who exploded for seven catches for 114 yards, including that arching 60-yard score from Mahomes.

Damien Williams, who gave the Chiefs a power running game of their own. A gang-tackling collective defense that shut down the Titans’ monster running back, Derrick Henry.

“It takes an army,” pointed out Coach Andy Reid, the long-seeking savant who is in the postseason for the 15th time as a head coach but who reached just his second Super Bowl.

But none mattered more than Mahomes, whose spirit imbues the entire organization.

Understand this about Mahomes’s will to win and hatred of losing: In the two years he has been the Chiefs’ starter, the team has never lost a game by more than seven points. That includes a year ago in the AFC championship See MAHOMES B3

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How Miami went from nearly forgotten by the NFL to back on top as ‘Super Bowl City’

By Greg Cote Miami Herald MIAMI — The idiom of dangling a carrot in front of one’s nose sees its extreme in the NFL dangling the prospect of hosting Super Bowls in front of wide-eyed cities.

The perfume is powerful enough to move mountains, to see local governments genuflect, to get new stadiums built.

In Miami, it was powerful enough to convince Stephen Ross to part with $350 million. And the result is South Florida’s transformation to “Super Bowl City” — a place at the center of the NFL universe.

If he hadn’t, the Kansas City Chiefs and the winner of Sunday night’s NFC Championship game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Green Bay Packers would not be headed to Miami, where the eyes of the world will be fixed on the biggest sporting event in America on Feb. 2.

Miami and his Hard Rock Stadium are only hosting the city’s record-setting 11th Super Bowl this season because Ross made that commitment.

SUPER BOWL LIVE/TNS The NFL had made that clear.

An artist rendering of Super Bowl Live, which will be staged at Miami’s Bayfront Park Jan. 25-Feb. 1.

“Our stadium wasn’t modern and up to date and had left for Miami (1971); the Steelers winning it really wasn’t a showcase,” as Ross put it. “The lower maximum attendance.

Ross funded the 20-month renovation for a num- their second for four Super Bowls within six years league said they weren’t coming back to Miami (1976); Terry Bradshaw back for Pittsburgh’s third ber of reasons. unless we did upgrade the stadium.”

It would benefit his Dolphins and other main ten- of four titles (1979); the 49ers reigning on two Joe Ross, the Miami Dolphins owner, spent more than a third of a billion dollars in a privately funded ant, Hurricanes football. It would attract the major Montana fourth-quarter touchdowns (1989); the 2015-16 facelift of the stadium Joe Robbie had annual Miami Open tennis tournament. It would Niners on top again, this time with Steve Young built (also privately funded) in 1987. That is why bring the College Football Playoff (HRS hosts (1995); Denver and John Elway going back-toMiami ended its 10-year drought, after previously the 2020 season national championship game). It back (1999); Peyton Manning leading the Colts to last hosting a Super Bowl following the 2009 sea- would attract major music concerts like the Roll- his first championship (2007); and New Orleans son, and earned the distinction of hosting the Super ing Stones. It would lure one-off big events like winning its first Super Bowl to lift a city still recovBowl 54 game that will crown and cap the league’s Wrestlemania. And it would create a destination for ering from Hurricane Katrina (2010).

The 2007 game was Miami’s only Super Bowl major international soccer including, Ross expects, 100th season. bothered by bad weather, but even that was sort of With this 11th Super Bowl — five in the old 2026 World Cup matches here.

Mostly, though, Ross’ financial investment was a win. I mean, who can ever forget the late, great Orange Bowl and this will be the sixth time in what is now Hard Rock, in the suburb of Miami Gar- made with Super Bowls in mind. With getting Prince singing “Purple Rain” in a driving deluge — for many perhaps the most memorable halftime dens — Greater Miami breaks a tie and surpasses Miami back in the rotation.

“That weighed a lot,” he says. “I’m hoping we’ll show of them all.

New Orleans’ 10 for the most ever, with Pasadena The next four Super Bowls after this one already a distant third place with five Super Bowls hosted. have a Super Bowl at least once every five years.

Add this to Miami’s claim to the title “Super The cities in the rotation all the time should be are committed — to Tampa, to Inglewood, California (the new Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Bowl City”: The Dolphins’ five Super Bowl team Miami and Los Angeles.”

Miami hosted three of the first five Super Bowls, Park), to Glendale, Arizona, then back to New appearances mean 16 of the first 54 SBs (or 30 percent) will have involved Miami as host or par- so South Florida and the promise of postcard Orleans.

Will Miami bid for the next available SB in ticipant, comfortably the most of any city or region. weather were appealing to the NFL from the start.

But the league’s interest in Miami began to sag February 2025?

But Miami as a Super Bowl destination had “We’re signed up for any game in ‘25, ‘26, ‘27, dried up after the 2010 game, perhaps permanently. as the aging Orange Bowl did the same, and it “Until Ross decided to write the big check,” said took Robbie building his brand new stadium to ‘28, ‘29 and ‘30,” said Barreto. In other words, Rodney Barreto, chairman of the Miami Super rekindle the league’s interest — just as decades Miami wants as many SBs as it can get.

The NFL has changed its bidding process. It Bowl Host Committee since 1988. “That got us later it would take Ross’ massive makeover of the The House That Joe Built to get the NFL’s atten- had gotten out of hand. Barreto recalls his first bid back in the game.” proposal in 1989 was 36 pages long. The one that The massive makeover featured giant video tion back.

Every Super Bowl is history making, and the won this season’s game was 565 pages. boards in the four inside corners of the stadium, Cities no longer make elaborate presentations to additional suites, and an open-air canopy over the 10 in Miami have not fallen short. In the briefest the league in a dog-and-pony show. Now, cities that main seating areas. In the redesign capacity was chronology, we have hosted: The triumph that would end the Vince Lom- can meet benchmark standards for facilities, hotel reduced by around 10,000, to roughly 65,500, but the higher percentage of premium seating meant bardi/Packers dynasty (1968); the Jets stunningly rooms and so forth simply add their name to a list overall revenue increases for Ross (and for the fulfilling Joe Namath’s “guarantee” (1969); the and the NFL decides. Miami’s track record would NFL putting Super Bowls here) even with the Colts winning it all the first season after Don Shula seem to a plus moving forward.

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Patriots QB Brady ‘open-minded’ about free agency Field Level Media

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady plans to play football next season when he’s 43, but he is not tipping his hand about a return to New England as he prepares to become an unrestricted free agent.

“I’m open-minded about the process,” Brady said Sunday in his weekly interview with Westwood One radio. “At the same time, I love playing football and I want to continue to play and do a great job. I’m looking forward to what’s ahead.

Whatever the future may bring, I’ll embrace it with open arms.”

All of Brady’s decorated 20-year NFL career has been spent in New England, where he has won six Super Bowl rings. He made $23 million this season after signing a contract extension last offseason that technically took him through the 2021 season.

But the final two years of that deal automatically void at the end of the league year – March 18 – and the deal prevents New England from using the franchise tag, allowing Brady to call all the shots about his destination in 2020 and beyond.

CBSSports.com’s Jason La Canfora reported that it would be “extremely surprising” for Brady to reach agreement with the Patriots before the start of free agency.

Brady and the Patriots were bounced from the 2019 playoffs in the wild-card

round by the Tennessee Titans. Brady often has repeated his belief that he can play until he’s 45.

Patriots owner Robert Kraft said this month that he “hopes and prays” Brady plays for the Patriots next season.

Brady led the Patriots to a 12-4 record in 2019, completing 60.8 percent of his 613 passes for 4,057 yards, 24 touchdowns and eight interceptions. He failed to make the Pro Bowl for the first time since the 2008 season.

Browns won’t retain DC Wilks The Cleveland Browns spent a good part of their Sunday shaking up the coaching staff that new head coach Kevin Stefanski inherited, with a couple of assistants reportedly out the door.

Cleveland.com reported the club will not bring back defensive coordinator Steve Wilks, while ESPN reported that offensive line coach James Campen will also be let go.

Wilks had been under consideration to stay after joining the Browns last season under Freddie Kitchens, but multiple outlets have reported that San Francisco 49ers defensive backs/ run-game coordinator Joe Woods is the favorite for the job.

ESPN reported later Sunday that Woods is expected to get the job as long as he and the Browns can agree to a contract.

“We’ve done this before,” as Barreto puts it.

The politically connected host committee chairman is a born and raised Miamian. The committee consists of Baretto, seven board members and 12 employees. That’s it. Well, for starters. Under what Barreto calls that “lean fighting machine” is an array of corporate sponsors, partners in Broward and Palm Beach, and volunteers.

“Ten thousand volunteers? We’ll check that box,” says Barreto.

Halftime performers for the 2020 Miami game will be Latina singing sensations Shakira and Jennifer Lopez, a.k.s J. Lo. Baretto initially suggested to the league a Miami-centric bill featuring J. Lo, Flo-Rida and Pitbull and found the NFL receptive.

The NFL owners party is set for the Perez Art Museum and the NFL Honors awards show for the Arsht Center. The two teams will practice at the Dolphins and Hurricanes facilities. The teams will stay at the Marriott Marquis and Turnberry Isle hotels and the league at the Intercontinental. Demi Lovato will sing the national anthem.

Super Bowl Live will be a weeklong series of free entertainment at Bayfront Park. The Super Bowl Experience interactive theme park will be at the Miami Beach Convention Center, as will media headquarters. The Taste of the NFL “Party With a Purpose” fundraiser will be at the Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood.

Super Bowl Week unofficially kicks off on Jan. 27 with Super Bowl Opening Night, when both teams appear for interviews before hundreds of gathered media at Marlins Park.

It is a massive undertaking that Barreto notes is “so much more than a game” and will generate a local economic impact “north of $400 million.” It culminates with the biggest annual sporting event in America, by a lot, perhaps joining the Fourth of July as the country’s biggest holiday.

This Super Bowl will draw to South Florida an estimated 150,000 visitors and the eyes of the world. The week will be priceless in terms of helping attract tourists year-round.

The previous 10 Miami Super Bowls have been seen by just under 1 billion TV viewers in the U.S. (about 990, 900). This next SB figures to add at least another 150 million to that total.

The host committee’s hype video for this Super Bowl is funky and urban, emphasizing the area’s diversity, and referring to “the 3-0-5” and “the Magic City.” Notes the narrator: “We let the whole world in.”

Super Bowls weren’t always this big, of course.

Tickets were $6 to the very first one, and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum wasn’t nearly sold out.

Barreto, 62, was barely a teenager when Miami’s Orange Bowl hosted three of the first five.

“I think I remember sneaking into one of those games, by the way,” he says with a smile.

What you need to know about Super Bowl LIV Sam Fortier The Washington Post

In the NFL’s 100th season, the Kansas Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers will battle for the league’s crown in Super Bowl LIV. For Kansas City, this moment - reaching the Super Bowl - is immense. That was underscored Sunday afternoon when Clark Hunt, the owner of the Kansas City Chiefs, was handed the AFC championship trophy as his team advanced to its first Super Bowl in 50 years. The trophy bears the name of his father, Lamar Hunt, a key figure in sustaining the early days of the NFL. The Chiefs will face they the 49ers, who hadn’t finished with a winning record in five years before they burst onto the scene with a balanced offense and dominant defensive line. The rode those units, and Coach Kyle Shanahan’s play-calling, to the NFC’s top seed this year.

Both teams reached the Super Bowl with convincing victories. The 49ers blew out the Green Bay Packers in Sunday’s NFC championship game and the Chiefs dispatched the Tennessee Titans, 35-24, earlier in the day.

Here’s what you need to know as the Super Bowl approaches.

-When is the Super Bowl?

Super Bowl LIV is Sunday, Feb. 2. Kickoff is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Eastern.

-Where is the Super Bowl?

Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, home of the Miami Dolphins, will host this year’s game. It’s the sixth time the stadium has hosted the Super Bowl - most recently in 2010 - and the 11th time the game has been played in the Miami area, starting with Super Bowl II in 1968.

-What channel is the Super Bowl on? Is it streamed?

The game will be broadcast by Fox, and it will be streamed on FoxSports.com. Joe Buck will be the play-by-play announcer, Troy Aikman will provide color commentary, and Erin Andrews and Chris Myers will be the sideline reporters.

-Have the Chiefs played in the Super Bowl before?

Yes, years and years ago. The Chiefs lost Super Bowl I to the Green Bay Packers in the 1966 season and then won Super Bowl IV in the 1969 season, back when the matchups were still known as the “AFLNFL World Championship Game.”

Chiefs Coach Andy Reid is one of the league’s best, but he lost the only Super Bowl in which he has appeared. That was in the 2004 season, when Reid, who was

with the Philadelphia Eagles at the time, lost to the New England Patriots. Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City’s brilliant quarterback, will be playing in his first Super Bowl.

-What about the 49ers?

Yes, the 49ers have played in six Super Bowls and won five of them (in the 1981, 1984, 1988, 1989 and 1994 seasons). They were the most successful team of the 1980s.

-How do the teams match up?

The Chiefs and 49ers built similar rosters to succeed in the modern NFL. They rely on young quarterbacks, versatile defenses and creative, offensive-minded coaches. The key for the Chiefs is slowing a 49ers defensive line stuffed with stars. The 49ers need to contain the reigning league MVP, quarterback Patrick Mahomes.

-Have they met in the Super Bowl before?

No. The most notable recent history between these teams is that San Francisco quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo tore the ACL in his left knee against Kansas City in September 2018. He missed the rest of that season.

-How is the Super Bowl host city selected?

The owners of the 32 NFL teams used to vote on bids from cities, but that is no longer the case, Michael Zimmer, president of the Miami Super Bowl host committee, told CNN last year. The NFL is transitioning to a model in which the league asks a city if it would like to host, he said, and if it does, the two parties negotiate the terms.

-Why does the Super Bowl use Roman numerals?

The Super Bowl uses Roman numerals to avoid any confusion that could be caused by playing the Super Bowl in the year after the regular season, according to the NFL media guide. This is Super Bowl LIV, or Super Bowl 54.

-What does the Super Bowl winner get?

The winner of the Super Bowl claims the Vince Lombardi Trophy - a 22-inchtall, seven-pound, sterling silver football on a stand. Each member of the winning team also gets $118,000.

-Why is it called the Super Bowl?

In 1966, the established National Football League announced it would merge with the upstart American Football League, and the contest between the league winners was, for a few years, called some variation of “the AFL-NFL World Championship Game.” The NFL knew it needed a catchier name.

The legend goes that one owner, the aforementioned Lamar Hunt of the Kansas City Chiefs, suggested “Super Bowl” because his children loved the Super Ball, a bouncy and popular toy. He said “bowl” was a phonetic confusion with “ball.” But the name’s true origins are somewhat unclear.

-How much is a ticket to the Super Bowl?

The average ticket price for a ticket to the Super Bowl is between $4,000 and $5,000, according to SeatGeek.com. The cheapest tickets on the secondary market were more than $3,000 before Sunday’s games, but prices for better seats were many multiples of that.

-Who are the halftime performers?

Shakira and Jennifer Lopez, two pop icons, will be this year’s performers. Shakira, who is Colombian, and Lopez, a Puerto Rican from the Bronx, called attention to the fact that two Latina performers would be sharing such a major stage; Shakira called the gig “a true American Dream.”

This is the first Super Bowl halftime show since the NFL and Jay-Z announced a partnership last year that included having the rapper and his agency, Roc Nation, co-produce the event.

-Who is singing the national anthem?

Demi Lovato -How did Super Bowl commercials become a thing?

After Apple’s famous “1984” ad, the value of the 30-second spots exploded. Last year, they reportedly sold for north of $5 million each and would be seen by more than 112 million viewers.

-Which team has won the most Super Bowls?

The New England Patriots and Pittsburgh Steelers have won six Super Bowls each.

-Which teams have never won the Super Bowl?

Twelve franchises have never won the Super Bowl.

Eight teams have played in at least one Super Bowl but lost: the Minnesota Vikings (four), Buffalo Bills (four), Cincinnati Bengals (two), Carolina Panthers (two), Atlanta Falcons (two), Los Angeles Chargers (one), Tennessee Titans (one) and Arizona Cardinals (one).

Four teams have never appeared in the Super Bowl: the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Houston Texans and Jacksonville Jaguars.

The Washington Post’s Elahe Izadi contributed to this report.

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quarter but they were lackadaisical on defense, failing to pick up Chatham’s open shooters until it was too late.

After a Catskill timeout, the Panthers stole two consecutive inbound passes from the Cats, scoring four straight points to tie the game at 47. Chatham continued their intense defense and stole yet a third inbound pass and converted the open layup in the face of their opponent, to take a 49-47 lead in only 25 seconds of game time.

After trading two pairs of missed free throws, Janay Brantley knocked down a three point shot, the eventual gamewinner, with 17.4 seconds left on the clock.

After Brantley made two crucial free throws, Chatham had a last chance to throw up a long shot to try and tie it but it fell short, and the Cats won by a hair.

Chatham will be on the road in Hudson for their next game, and Catskill will be back on their homecourt to host Maple Hill on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.

CATSKILL (52): Brantley 9-929, Konsul 3-0-6, O’Connell 1-02, Salierno 1-1-3, Shook 4-0-12.

Totals 18-10-52.

3-pointers: Shook 4, Brantley 2.

CHATHAM (49): Cascioli 5-0-12, Daigle 2-7-11, Eaton 1-0-2, Madsen 1-0-2, H. Taylor 7-6-22. Totals 16-13-49.

3-pointers: H. Taylor 2, Cacioli 2.

Hudson 50, Cairo-Durham 34 EAST DURHAM — Hudson

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Baker 1-0-2, Johnson 9-5-25, Lockhart 8-3-19, Nixon 1-0-2, Sullivan 6-0-14. Totals 25-862.

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game, when their 37-31 overtime defeat to the New England Patriots left them “bitter,” as Reid put it. Mahomes had nearly choked on it and sworn he wouldn’t let it happen again.

“To watch the Super Bowl and not be in it, that was something I could barely do,” Mahomes said Sunday night, and you could hear how much it still bothered him.

If the Chiefs are an outfit that, as Reid says, “gives you four quarters of honest football on every single snap,” it’s largely thanks to the habits of Mahomes, who merely fought

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Garoppolo, to be so dominant.

There are blowouts, and then there are completely demoralizing beatdowns that make you reexamine everything you know about the game. This was definitely the latter.

Given that San Francisco stomped Green Bay, 37-8, in the regular season, it’s no great surprise that the 49ers proved to be superior again.

Nevertheless, it was stunning to witness Rodgers - that baaaaad man for so long, the NFL’s most feared somethingout-of-nothing genius - yield to a greater force without the least bit of adjustment. Rodgers and the Packers had seen the 49ers at their mightiest, underestimated them, gotten embarrassed and taken the time to reflect and revise their approach. But the rematch wasn’t much different from their November meeting, when Rodgers threw for just 104 yards on 33 pass attempts. In fact, this humiliation felt worse because they knew what was coming, and not even the league’s improvisational master could come

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Chatham’s Veah Daigle (32) looks to pass to a teammate as Catskill Aaliyah Shook (33) and Hannah Konsul (24) defend during Friday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game.

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Catskill’s Aaliyah Shook walks the ball up the floor during Friday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game against Chatham.

game.

Abigail Dolge had 14 points and Ashley Ames 11 for the Riders, who connected on 12 threepointers.

The Riders built quarterly leads of 21-5, 36-18 ad 57-24.

ICHABOD CRANE (68): A. Ames 4-0-11, H. Ames 2-0-4, Culver 1-0-2, Dolge 5-2-14, Graham 10-0-27, Knapp 2-0-4, More 2-2-6. Totals 26-4-68.

3-pointers: Graham 7, A. Ames 3, Dolge 2.

VOORHEESVILLE (35): Bogart 2-2-6, Bogdany 0-1-1, Gifford 2-1-5, Hunt 1-0-2, Morris 3-0-6, Rowland 0-1-1, Thayer 1-1-3, Whalen 2-2-6, Zanello 2-1-5. Totals 13-9-35.

Germantown 36, Hawthorne Valley 29 HUDSON — Nine players reached the scoring column for Germantown in a 36-29 Central Hudson Valley League girls

basketball win over Hawthorne Valley on Friday.

Kierland Denninger and Jen Ljutich each had six points to top the Clippers.

Merril Lewis hit a game-high 16 points for the Wildcats.

Germantown trailed 11-7 after one quarter, but battled back to take a 17-16 edge at halftime and widened the gap to 31-21 after three quarters.

GERMANTOWN (36): Anderson 1-0-2, Decker 0-2-2, Denninger 3-0-6, Dunn 2-0-5, Gibbons 2-1-5, Hayes 1-0-3, Ljutich 1-4-6, Mergenthaler 1-0-2, Wyant 2-0-5. Totals 137-36.

3-pointers: Dunn, Hayes, Wyant.

HAWTHORNE VALLEY (29): Lewis 7-2-16, Suesada 2-0-6, Udjate 2-2-7, Mentzer 0-0-0, Jansen 0-0-0. Totals 11-4-29.

3-pointers: Suesada 2, Udjate.

Voorheesville 60, Ichabod Crane 47 VALATIE — Zaveon Little dropped 24 points to highlight Voorheesville’s 60-47 Colonial Council boys basketball victory over Ichabod Crane on

Friday.

The Blackbirds led 14-12 afte one quarter, 36-25 at halftime and 53-36 through three quarters.

Tanner Tedesco followed Little in scoring for the Blackbirds with 19 points.

Zach Kennedy led Ichabod

Crane with 24 points. Brett Richards had 11.

VOORHEESVILLE (60): Barringer 1-0-2, Erickson 1-02, Little 9-5-24, Parker 1-0-2, Piccini 2-0-5, Puma 1-0-3, Tedesco 7-2-19, Vink 1-0-3. Totals 24-7-60.

3-pointers: Tedesco 3, Vink,

Puma, Piccini, Little.

ICHABOD CRANE (47): Kennedy 8-3-24, Mulica 1-0-2, Ogden 3-0-7, Richards 5-1-11, Schmidt 1-0-2, Suafoa 0-1-1.

Totals 18-5-47.

3-pointers: Kennedy 5, Ogden.

through a dislocated kneecap. Credit Reid for detecting Mahomes’s internal drive and making him a first-round draft pick coming out of Texas Tech three years ago. “I was going to do whatever it took to win games,” Mahomes said.

Credit Reid even more for bringing this unconventional, winning-ravenous kid along so brilliantly and so patiently, literally sitting next to him on the bench between every possession for the past two years and talking him through it all like a kindly Little League coach.

Reid says of Mahomes, “He sees the whole picture.”

If so, it’s thanks to his coach.

Through the lens of Mahomes, it’s finally becoming apparent to laymen and outsiders just

why Reid is so respected by his coaching peers and beloved by players: He is simply one of the finest teachers in the history of the game. “I’ve been accepted to go out and be who I am,” Mahomes said.

Who is he? For one thing, he is a mentalist who can see victory where others can’t.

This time it was a more modest 10-point deficit, as opposed to the 24-point hole he rallied the Chiefs from against the Houston Texans in the divisional round. Still, with a ball-controlling mauler like Henry allowing the Titans to mount drives such as the one that took up nine minutes of the first quarter, that could have been a deadly deficit. The Chiefs still trailed 17-7 with 6:39 left in the first half. But

Mahomes turned it all into just a throat clearing.

“We don’t care if we’re down 10-0 or up 10-0,” he said.

What a jolt Mahomes was to his team, how he vitalized it with those two straight touchdowns before halftime. First there was that absolute lightning bolt to Hill - who wasn’t even open when Mahomes reared back and threw it; Hill came free just at the last step as the ball arrived. As retired defensive back Domonique Foxworth remarked on Twitter, it was as if Mahomes’ passes “were catching receivers, not the other way around.”

And then with 11 seconds left in the first half came the 27-yard run, the one that, some day when he is a Hall of Famer, will be in the highlight

package. It all started when Mahomes dropped back and darted left to avoid pressure.

He scrambled for the sideline and then turned sharply, leaving linebacker Derick Roberson to dive vainly at his feet.

He made the decision that turned the entire game. “I saw how much space was there and realized I could cut it up,” he said.

As Reid said, it was one thing to read the defense. It was quite another to turn his eyes and body upfield and see a route to the end zone from that distance.

“For him to be able to see that in the heat of it is something,” Reid said.

Mahomes shook off linebacker Rashaan Evans, skipped along the sidelines

just a few inches in bounds, dashed inside, spun out of the grip of cornerback Tramaine Brock at the 5 and then powered his way into the end zone with lineman DaQuan Jones diving at his heels. He stood up and flexed his muscles, popping his fists to his biceps.

As well he should have. The Chiefs would never be behind again.

“To see him slither and slide and run a guy over,” Watkins said, “I mean, that guy’s amazing. He’s been leading this team all year.”

And then Watkins added a final thought that the entire stadium agreed with.

“That’s a guy you need on your team to win games and be in this position right now.”

In the Super Bowl.

up with a better way to combat the ferocious defensive pressure.

Over on the AFC side, Kansas City defensive end Frank Clark celebrated the Chiefs’ Super Bowl LIV berth by declaring of his squad, “We’re the baddest MF’ers on the planet.” Well, for certain, the offense supporting Clark is as potent as it gets. But if we’re talking bad - physical, overpowering, relentless, attacking from all angles, in all phases - well, San Francisco made a much more compelling case during that first half Sunday.

The 49ers may not be the best of the two teams. We’ll figure out that part in a couple of weeks. But baddest? The bully resides in the NFC, and it has perhaps the most gifted defensive line the NFL has ever seen to go with playmakers all over the field. And it possesses the perfect complementary offense, featuring a downhill, punishing, cramit-down-your-throat running game that somehow manages to be just as creative as it is pulverizing.

San Francisco didn’t just want to win. It wanted to pound Green Bay into submission, something that hardly ever happens with Rodgers under center making miracles

happen. But the Packers lost their spirit early in this game.

Rodgers could not extend plays; when he tried, he looked foolish and helpless as he took sacks. He muffed a snap and gave little effort as 49ers defensive tackle DeForest Buckner fell on the fumble. Later in the second quarter, he threw an interception to Emmanuel Moseley that led to 49ers running back Raheem Mostert’s third touchdown of the first half for 49ers running back Raheem Mostert, who finished his career day with 220 of San Francisco’s 285 rushing yards and four touchdowns.

Rodgers improved in the second half and finished with respectable statistics: 31 for 39 for 326 yards, two touchdowns, two interceptions. He did not quit. But those numbers were deceiving because they were accumulated mostly against a defense that had turned conservative.

The first half was more indicative of the kind of game Rodgers had. He went into halftime having completed 9 of 12 passes for just 64 yards.

He had those two turnovers and posted a 52.1 passer rating. He was sacked twice, so the Packers had only 41 net passing yards at the break.

To be successful against San

Francisco, Rodgers knew he needed to get rid of the football quickly. He knew he needed to be accurate and on time. He knew he had to trust the rest of the team to assist him, which is something the notoriously stubborn quarterback had done well in leading Green Bay to a 13-3 record and an NFC title game appearance. But he also needed more flurries of brilliance, and that just wasn’t going to happen against this defense.

Rodgers looked like a 36-year-old quarterback at times this season, but most of that was by design as Coach Matt LaFleur focused on building around the star.

But despite Rodgers posting human statistics, you never thought of him as irreversibly human. You always knew he could channel more. But on Sunday, he couldn’t.

And that should be the largest feather in the 49ers’ conference championship cap. They ruined one of the last good chances Rodgers had to win a second Super Bowl. They may have also sent him officially into a new existence as an old quarterback.

“It definitely hurts, I’d say, a little more than early in the career,” Rodgers said. “It’s just because you realize how

difficult it is to get to this spot.”

With a 25-year-old running back in Aaron Jones and outside linebacker Za’Darius Smith in his prime and leading a defense that can grow into a consistent force, Green Bay has the talent, the youth and enough salary cap flexibility to remain a contender. But for the first time with Rodgers at quarterback, their championship aspirations rest more on how easy they can make the task for their future Hall of Famer. The days of Rodgers saving the day aren’t necessarily over. The days of Rodgers saving the day with regularity have already ended.

Sunday marked the Packers’ third straight loss in the NFC title game since they won the Super Bowl nine years ago.

The past two of those have been blowouts. For nearly a decade, Green Bay has been the NFL’s premier good-notgreat team. While it is an underrated feat to stay in the hunt, it is no less frustrating to be unable to break through.

“You realize I don’t have the same number of years ahead of me as I do behind me,” Rodgers admitted. “So it’s slightly more disappointing.”

In the quarterback arms race, Rodgers has gone from having to complete with older

legends such as Drew Brees, Tom Brady and Peyton and Eli Manning to seeing younger, dynamic players - Russell Wilson, Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson - enter the competition. Although Rodgers has had a run in which he was considered the league’s best individual player, he never got to own the league like Brady did.

Now he is just fighting to keep the future from taking over.

His challenge, his new reality, become quite clear at Levi’s Stadium on Sunday. He was in an impossible situation, and he couldn’t make the impossible happen. That’s nothing to be ashamed of - Green Bay’s overall improvement from missing the playoffs the previous two seasons to NFC title game participant was quite inspiring - but the end provided a sobering truth. “I think it’s a new beginning for us,” 36-year-old Packers cornerback Tramon Williams said, “but it’s so tough to get back.”

The San Francisco 49ers are the NFC’s greatest force, and they are just getting started. It leaves Rodgers in a place familiar to many who persist in this game: as an aging legend in need of help.

overcame an early deficit to defeat Cairo-Durham, 50-34, in Friday’s Patroon Confernce girls basketball game.

The Bluehawks trailed 9-4 after one quarter of play, but went ahead 20-19 at halftime and extended the margin to 34-29 through three quarters.

They iced the victory with a 16-5 scoring edge over the final eight minutes of play.

Shayna Coppersmith led Hudson with 13 points. Katie Jepsen had 12.

Cairo-Durham’s top scorer was Arianna Myers, who had 14 points.

HUDSON (50): Coppersmith 5-3-13, K. Jepsen 3-6-12, A. Jepsen 2-0-6, Johnson 4-0-8, McDonald 3-0-8, Oliver-Ragland 1-0-3. Totals 18-9-50.

3-pointers: A. Jepsen 2, McDonald 2, Oliver-Ragland.

CAIRO-DURHAM (34): Bruck 3-0-6, James 2-1-5,

Mudge 1-0-2, Myers 4-3-14, Wolcott 3-1-7. Totals 13-5-34.

3-pointers: Myers 3.

Taconic Hills 39, Albany Leadership 31 ALBANY — Marleah Perry scored 15 points on five threepointers to power Taconic Hills to a 39-31 victory over Albany Leadership in Friday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball action.

Kirsten Shumsky had nine points for the Titans, who held quarterly leads of 16-10, 21-17 and 33-21.

Kamira Galloway paced Albany Leadership with 16 points.

TACONIC HILLS (39): Beck 2-0-4, Cooper 1-0-2, Kernan 0-2-2, Mottoshsiki 1-2-4, Perry 5-0-15, Shumsky 3-1-9, Sparacino 1-1-3. Totals 13-6-39.

3-pointers: Perry 5, Shumsky 2.

ALBANY LEADERSHIP (31): Galloway 8-0-16, Jacobs

1-0-2, Jones 2-3-7, Mabry 1-0-2, Langston 1-2-4. Totals 13-5-31.

Maple Hill 64, Rensselaer 41 CASTLETON — Maple Hill had three players reach double figures in scoring during Saturday’s 64-41 Patroon Conference girls basketball victory over Rensselaer.

Sophia Chevrier led the Wildcats with 12 points. Callie Haller added 11 and Natasha Strock had 10.

Mechelle Cancer had a game-high 17 for Rensselaer.

Mackenzie Brown chipped in with 15.

3-pointers: Johnson 2, Sullivan 2.

MAPLE HILL (58): Decker 3-3-9, Hirschoff 1-2-4, Jewett 11-2-29, Marra 5-2-12, Sherwood 1-0-2, Utter 1-0-2. Totals 22-9-58.

3-pointers: Jewett 5.

COLONIAL

COLONIAL Ichabod Crane 68, Voorheesville 35 VOORHEESVILLE — Madie Graham knocked down seven three-pointers and finished with 27 points to spark Ichabod Crane to a 68-35 victory over Voorheesville in Friday’s Colonial Council girls basketball

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Announcement of Public Review and Comment Period Under the Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act the ColumbiaGreene Workforce Development Board is responsible for developing, integrating and coordinating a workforce development system for the two counties that meets the needs of business, provides career opportunities for workers, and assures meaningful education and employment opportunities for youth.

In accordance with WIOA Law, the CG WIB is required to develop and implement a Local Plan for WIOA Title 1 for a five year period ending on June 30, 2021. Periodically, the plan must be updated.

The CG WDB is inviting your comments on these updates. The updated plan will be posted on our website until January 27, 2020 and can be viewed at: www.columbiagreeneworks.org A hard copy is also available at the Workforce New York Career Center at Columbia Greene Community College, in the Professional Academic Center, Room 709.

Anyone having questions, or wishing to provide input, may do so in writing to: Katy Drake, Consulting Director, ColumbiaGreene WDB, P.O. Box 753, Catskill, NY 12414 or by e-mail to o n e s t o p @ s u nycgcc.edu.

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ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY 358 EICHYBUSH, LLC Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (“LLC�). Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (“SSNY�) on 01/17/2020. Office location: Columbia County.

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

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

Purpose: To engage in any lawful activity.

INDUSTRY STUDIO LLC. Filed 6/6/19. Office: Greene Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: Bennett D Krasner, 1233 Beech St, No 49, Atlantic Beach, NY 11509. Purpose: General.

Becket East Realty, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/26/14. Office: Columbia County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC,140 Arch Bridge Road, Ghent NY 12075. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Casa Craryville LLC. Filed 11/6/19. Office: Columbia Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: c/o Roger Leaf, 70 E 10th St Apt 12a, NY, NY 10003. Purpose: General.

COLUMBIA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING Please take notice that there will be a meeting of the Columbia Economic Development Corporation Board on January 28, 2020 at 8:30am at One Hudson City Centre, Suite 301, Hudson, NY 12534 for the purpose of discussing any business presented to the Corporation for consideration.

Dated: January 21, 2020 Sarah Sterling CEDC Secretary Columbia Economic Development Corporation CROW HILL GROUP, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/09/20. Office: Greene County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 194 CR 51, Coxsackie, NY 12051.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Eggena.Co LLC. Filed 12/30/19. Office: Columbia Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 560 Snydertown Rd, Claverack, NY 12513.

Purpose: General.

E Wheeler & Company, LLC Arts. of Org. filed w/ SSNY 12/9/19. Exist Date: 1/1/20. Off. in Greene Co. SSNY desig. as agt. of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, PO Box 126, New Baltimore, NY 12124.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice is hereby given that an on-premise license, #TBA has been applied for by Kitty’s Restaurant LLC to sell beer, wine, cider and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment with one additional bar. For on premises consumption under the ABC Law at 60 South Front Street Hudson NY 12534

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HANNAH TURNER REAL ESTATE, LLC Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company ("LLC").

Articles of Organization of 39 Lasher LLC filed New York Sec. of State ("NYSS") 7/11/2018. Office loc.

Columbia County.

Certificate of Amendment of Articles of Organization amending the name of the limited liability company to Hannah Turner Real Estate, LLC filed NYSS 2/15/2019. NYSS designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. NYSS shall mail a copy of any process to c/o The LLC, 471 Route 19, Hudson, New York 12534.

There is no specific date set for dissolution.

Purpose: to engage in any lawful activity or act. Name and Business Address of Organizer is Adeline P. Malone, Esq., 6369 Mill Street, P.O. Box 510, Rhinebeck, NY 12572.

Herman K. Schmidt HVAC LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 1/8/2020. Cty: Columbia. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 29 Merle Ave., Hudson, NY 12534. General Purpose.

HVC Freight LLC Arts of Or.field with Sec. of State of NY.{SSNY} 8/25/2019 as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall and shall mail process to 469 County Route 10 Germantown NY 12526 General Purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of Cherry Alley Designs LLC. Articles of Organization filed with New York Secretary of State on January 2, 2020. Office location: Columbia County. Secretary of State is designated as agent of LLC upon whom service of process against it may be served. Secretary of State shall mail process to Robert A. Huston, 531 Warren St., Hudson, NY 12534.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity within the purposes for which a limited liability company may be organized pursuant to the Limited Liability Company Law. LEGAL NOTICE TOWN OF GREENPORT NOTICE OF RECEIPT OF TAX ROLL AND WARRANT TAKE NOTICE, that I, Sharon Zempko, the Collector of Taxes for the Town of Greenport,

PURSUANT TO NEW YORK LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY LAW SECTION 206 1. The name of the limited liability company is Barracks Nine Holdings, LLC. 2. The date of filing of the articles of organization with the Department of State was November 20, 2019.

3. The County in New York in which the office of the company is located is Columbia.

3-a. The street address of the principal business location of the company is 61 Flints Crossing Road, Canaan, NY 12029.

4. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the company upon whom process may be served, and the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the company served upon him or her to: 61 Flints Crossing Road Canaan, NY 12029.

5. The business purpose of the company is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under the laws of the State of New York. /s/ Francis J. Roche Attorney at Law NOTICE OF FORMA- 538 Union Street TION OF ALTERNA- P.O. Box 321 TIVE BODYWORK Hudson, NY 12534 CENTER, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with Depart- Notice of Formation of ment of State, Division Dylan Thompson Golf of Corp. (SSNY) on LLC. Arts. of Org. filed 12/16/2019.

County: with the Sect’y of Greene. SSNY is des- State of NY (SSNY) on ignated agent of LLC 12/26/2019. Office loto whom process be cation, County of served. SSNY may Greene. SSNY has mail a copy of any pro- been designated as cess to LLC, 41 Five agent of the LLC upon Mile Woods Road, whom process against Catskill, N.Y. 12414. it may be served.

Any legal act or ac- SSNY Shall mail a tivity. copy of process to: Dylan REQUEST FOR PRO- Thompson, P.O. Box POSAL FOR LEGAL 62, Haines Falls, N.Y. SERVICES For the pe- 12436. Purpose: For riod February 1, 2020 – any lawful purpose.

December 31, 2021 Proposals can be Notice of Formation of INTEGRITY picked up at the ad- GLOBAL dress below or from LLC Articles of Orthe Town website: ganization filed with the Secretary of State chathamnewyork.us INQUIRIES AND PRO- of N.Y. (SSNY) on POSALS SHOULD BE 12/9/2019. Office locaDIRECTED TO: Donal tion: Greene County.

Collins, Supervisor SSNY designated as Town of Chatham 488 agent of LLC upon State Route 295, Chat- whom process against ham, NY 12037 it may be served.

(518) 392-0044 super- SSNY shall mail copy v i s o r @ c h a t h a m n e w - of process to: PO Box 335, Round Top, NY york.us Proposals must be 12473. Purpose: any submitted no later than lawful activity.

4:00 p.m. on February NOTICE OF FORMA6, 2020.

By order of the Chat- TION OF LIMITED LIham Town Board Dat- ABILITY COMPANY. ed January 17, 2020 NAME: OLSEN DCM, Beth Anne Rippel, LLC Articles of OrganizaTown Clerk tion were filed with the Secretary of State of NOTICE OF FORMA- New York (SSNY) on TION OF A NEW December 11, 2019.

YORK LIMITED LI- Office location: Columbia County.

ABILITY COMPANY

County of Columbia, have received the tax roll and warrant for the collection of taxes within the Town of Greenport for the year 2020 and that I will be collecting taxes at the Greenport Town Hall, 600 Town Hall Drive, Monday thru Friday from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM during the month of January, February, March, April, and May. TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, that taxes paid on or before January 31, 2020 are without penalty and after that date a 1% penalty per month will be added until such taxes are paid or until the return of unpaid taxes to the Columbia County Treasurer pursuant to law.

TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, that pursuant to the provisions of law the tax roll of the Town of Greenport will be returned to the County Treasurer of the County of Columbia on the 1st. day of June, 2020 Sharon Zempko Town Clerk/Tax Collector Town of Greenport P. 518-828-4656 Ext. 1 Opt. 2 F. 518-828-2350

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC to Mark P. Cawley, Esq., 175 Hunt Road, Hillsdale, New York 12529.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Mountain Family Ventures LLC The name of the Limited Liability Company is Mountain Family Ventures LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the New York State Secretary of State on December 27, 2019. The office of the LLC is located in Columbia County, New York. The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of such process to Mountain Family Ventures LLC, c/o The West Firm, LLC, 677 Broadway, 8th Floor, Albany NY 12207. The LLC is organized to engage in any lawful act or activity within the purposes for which limited liability companies may be organized pursuant to New York State Limited Liability Company Law provided that the limited liability company is not formed to engage in any act or activity requiring the consent or approval of any state official, department, board, agency, or other body without such consent or approval first being obtained.

The name of the Limited Liability Company is Mountains of Laundry LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the New York State Secretary of State on December 27, 2019. The office of the LLC is located in Columbia County, New York. The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of such process to Mountains of Laundry LLC, c/o The West Firm, PLLC, 677 Broadway, 8th Floor, Albany NY 12207. The LLC is organized to engage in any lawful act or activity within the purposes for which limited liability companies may be organized pursuant to New York State Limited Liability Company Law provided that the limited liability company is not formed to engage in any act or activity requiring the consent or approval of any state official, department, board, agency, or other body without such consent or approval first being obtained.

Retreatopia LLC. Arts. an Org. filed with the SSNY on 8/15/19. Office: Columbia County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 9030 State Route 22, Suite 3, Hillsdale, NY 12529. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF COLUMBIA, SEFCU, Plaintiff, vs. BRIAN W. HOFFNOTICE OF FORMA- MAN A/K/A BRIAN TION OF Mountains of HOFFMAN, ET AL., Laundry LLC Defendant(s).

Pursuant to an Order Confirming Referee Report and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on December 17, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Columbia County Supreme Courthouse, 401 Union Street, Hudson, NY 12534 on February 21, 2020 at 10:00 a.m., premises known as 116 Summerset Road, Stuyvesant, NY 12173.

All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Stuyvesant, County of Columbia and State of New York, Section 52.1, Block 2 and Lot 3.

Approximate amount of judgment is $71,619.05 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 12644-18.

Timothy R. Shevy, Esq., Referee Schiller, Knapp, Lefkowitz & Hertzel, LLP, 200 Town of Austerlitz Columbia County New York The Town of Austerlitz invites all parties interested in serving on the Planning Board, to submit a letter of interest to the Town Clerk

by February 15, 2020.

Letters can be dropped off or sent to 816 Route 203, PO Box 238, Spencertown, New York, 12165 or emailed to shaag@austerlitzny.com. Please call 518-392-3260, Ext 300 with questions.

By Order of the Town Board January 17, 2020 Susan Haag, Town Clerk

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COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Board of Fire Commissioners of the Copake Fire District are holding a special election on February 18, 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 ¾ 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 18 day of February, 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 18th and who are residents of the Fire District for 30 days preceding the referendum shall be eligible to vote.

The Bunker Recordings LLC Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/19/2019.

Office: Greene County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 6405 Rt 32 Cairo NY, 12413. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) The name of the LLC is Sage Elements, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on January 3, 2020. New York

office location: 544 Route 23B, Town of Claverack, County of Columbia and the State of New York.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: Sage Elements, LLC; 544 State Route 23B, Hudson, New York 12534. Purpose/Character of business: Any lawful business purpose permitted under the New York Limited Liability Company Law. This notification is made pursuant to Section 206 of the Limited Liability Company Law. PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) The name of the LLC is TK Firearms, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on January 3, 2020. New York office location: 449 Fairview Avenue, Town of Greenport, County of Columbia and the State of New York.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: TK Firearms, LLC; 449 Fairview Avenue, Hudson, New York 12534. Purpose/Character of business: Any lawful business purpose permitted under the New York Limited Liability Company Law. This notification is made pursuant to Section 206 of the Limited Liability Company Law STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY COURT : COUNTY OF GREENE NOTICE OF SALE Index No. 18-0590 Hon. Charles J. Tailleur Greene County Court Judge PETER J. CANARELLI, Plaintiff, - against MARILYN S. CANARELLI, Defendant.

In pursuance of an Order Confirming and Adopting the Referee's Report and directing the sale of premises in this partition action duly made and entered in the above-entitled action bearing the date 10th day of December, 2019, the Referee in said Judgment named, will sell at public auction at the Greene County Courthouse, Basement, 320 Main Street., Catskill, New York 12414 on the 11th day of February, 2020 at 10:00AM o'clock in the forenoon of that day the premises described by said Judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: (See Schedule A annexed hereto) Ralph C. Lewis, Jr. Attorney for Plaintiff

Dated: December 20, 2019 ALL that certain piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the Town of Jewett, County of Greene and State of New York, being bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point marked by an iron pin in the northerly bounds of a fifty (50) foot wide existing private road or right of way, said point being the southwest corner of lands now or formerly of Malcom and Katherine McGregor (L 540 P 291).and runs thence along the northerly bounds of said right of way or private road the following two (2) courses and distances" N 48° 21* 50" W, 56.33 feet to a point and N .58° 48' 10" W, 232.40 feet to a point marked by an iron pin" thence along other lands now or formerly of Countryside Acres Corporation N 36° 25' E 744.65 feet to a point" thence S 48° 21' 50" E, along lands now or formerly of Gertrude Peters, a distance of 325.00 feet to a point marked by a stone on end with stones around in a stonewall? thence along lands now or formerly of Malcom and Katherine McGregor S 39° 22' 30" W, 700.00 feet to the point and place of beginning.

Containing 5.038 acres of land more or less.

TOGETHER with a right of way fifty (50) feet in width for ingress and egress along the existing private road extending from Greene County Route No. 14, known as Goshen Street, northerly and westerly to and along the southerly bounds of the above described parcel BEING a portion of the premises conveyed to the grantor herein by deed dated February, 1982 and recorded in the Greene County Clerk's Office on Feburary 16, 1982 in Liber 513 of Deeds at Page 1197.

NOW, THEREFORE, Countryside Acres Corporation hereby declares that the following covenants, easements and restrictions shall apply to the aforesaid premises and shall run with the land and be binding upon Countryside Acres Corporation, its successors and assigns, and each and every prospective purchaser of any lot or portion of the aforesaid premises agrees by the acceptance of a deed thereto that such property shall be held, transferred, sold, conveyed, occupied and used subject to the following covenants, easements and restrictions" 1. No lot or parcel of land may be further subdivided so as to create any parcel of land less in area than the original conveyance.

2. All lots shall be used exclusively for private residences and

no commercial enterprise of any kind shall be conducted. Only a one or two family dwelling shall be allowed on any lot, which may Include an attached or detached garage.

3. No structure shall be constructed within seventy-five (75) feet from the edge of any roadway and must be built at least fifty (50) feet from the lot line.

4. No trailer and/or mobile home may be parked, maintained, used or occupied on said property.

5. Any building to be constructed upon the subject premises just be enclosed by the builder within one (1). year from the date construction on said building is commenced.

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Steve Nash says his godson RJ Barrett ‘will evolve into a great playmaker’ Stefan Bondy New York Daily News

RJ Barrett’s full potential won’t be displayed until he physically develops and is afforded more playmaking opportunities.

That’s according to Barrett’s famous godfather, Hall of Famer Steve Nash, who said the Knicks should be giddy about the possibilities. “(Barrett’s) shown very much of what I thought he’d show. He’s an incredibly talented, well-rounded basketball player. He does a bit of everything. I think he will evolve into a great playmaker because that’s a natural ability for him that he doesn’t necessarily get to shine in at this stage of his career and on this stage of this team,” Nash said. “That’s exciting for Knicks fans that he still produces, he’s versatile, he can score. He’s growing defensively. And for me, he’s a

natural playmaker and that hasn’t been a part of his upside yet that’s highlighted. So for the franchise, that’s exciting.”

Nash, who lives in Los Angeles, attended Sunday’s Knicks-Sixers game at the Garden but missed Barrett because the rookie sat with a sprained ankle. Barrett was a primary ballhandler at Duke last season but, in New York, often becomes a secondary initiator behind Julius Randle, Marcus Morris or whomever is running point guard.

Still, Barrett’s usage rate is high (23.2%) and he’s averaging 14.1 points with 5.2 rebounds on 39.3% shooting.

New York’s short-lived experiments of playing Barrett at point guard didn’t go well.

With the force and frequency Barrett drives to the basket, scouts have questioned whether he will stay healthy. However, the third

overall pick was injury-free until turning his ankle in Thursday’s loss to the Suns.

Barrett, who was turning up his production before the injury, is expected to miss at least the next three games.

“I think RJ’s physically not fully developed,” said Nash, whose relationship with Barrett stems from playing alongside the 19-year-old’s father, Rowan, on Canada’s national basketball team.

“I think he can improve his quickness off the mark. He’s athletic when he gets momentum. But his quickness and dexterity from a standstill position is something that, he’s so young, I think will improve. And his shooting has trended up for the last four or five years. I think when these things continue to trend up, we’re talking a player that has incredible potential.”

Despite Barrett’s gaudy

stats, he’s not considered a Rookie of the Year candidate for three reasons — Memphis’ Ja Morant has been amazing, Barrett has been inefficient and the Knicks (1132) are terrible.

“For him to do the best for himself and the franchise, he just needs to keep his head down and work to develop himself. He can’t allow losing to deter him from continually pushing to be the best player he can be,” Nash said.

“And fortunately, that’s the type of character and kid he is. And you have to find a way when you’re that competitive to not allow losing affect your plan. And as much as that’s a challenge for him, he’s equipped to do that. So I don’t see it as an issue for him. I see that as something that has the potential to spur him on.”

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New York Knicks shooting guard RJ Barrett (9) drives to the basket against New Orleans Pelicans shooting guard Josh Hart (3) during a recent game at Madison Square Garden.

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As Serena Williams pursues singles record, Opposing pitchers know why Yankees icon Derek fires cast pall over Australian Open Jeter will be a first-

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The Australian Open is often called the “Happy Slam” for its relaxed feeling and swarms of knowledgeable fans who invest their emotions in every point of the year’s first major tournament.

But the cheer that customarily reigns has been replaced this year by anxiety over the bushfires that have ravaged parts of Australia and dispatched smoky air toward Melbourne Park, where several players complained of breathing problems last week.

Some qualifying matches were delayed because of poor air quality that triggered coughing spells and gasping. Delila Jakupovic of Slovenia collapsed during her match, Maria Sharapova and Laura Siegemund agreed to halt an exhibition match, and Australia’s Bernard Tomic needed medical attention for breathing problems.

Denis Shapovalov of Canada, seeded 13th, said he wouldn’t play if he believed conditions to be unsafe. “Obviously it’s a Grand Slam, it’s a big opportunity, but I’m 20 years old. I don’t want to risk my life, risk my health being out there in these conditions when I can play for the next 10, 15 years,” he told reporters on Saturday. “For my own health, if it gets bad, I just don’t see what the point is.

“I think everyone’s kind of on the same page. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone happy with the way things are being dealt with.”

Tournament director Craig Tiley said competition will start Monday as planned. “We do have three indoor arenas in which we can compete. It may look different but the tournament will happen,” he said. “We are speculating if that would happen, but if we had to work it out we would.”

An array of elite players, including Serena Williams, Naomi Osaka, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Australia’s Nick

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Serena Williams hits to Bianca Andreescu in the women’s final match on day thirteen of the 2019 U.S. Open tennis tournament at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

Kyrgios, united to participate in a charity fundraising event to support firefighting efforts.

Soon, they’ll all be competitors again.

Williams, seeded No. 8, is still pursuing her 24th Grand Slam singles title and a share of the record held by Australia’s Margaret Court. Williams hasn’t won a Slam event since she prevailed in Melbourne in 2017 while in the early stages of pregnancy.

She has since lost in the final of Wimbledon twice and the U.S. Open twice, but she might gain confidence from her victory in a warm-up tournament in Auckland, New Zealand, her first title since she returned to competition.

Unlike the lead-up to her recent Slam appearances, she has been able to train without being hampered by injuries. “I think if she just takes a little bit of pressure off herself and she can just play her brand of tennis, I think she’s got a good shot at winning it,” said Chris Evert, who won two of her 18 Grand Slam singles titles in Australia and will be on site for ESPN.

Williams is in the same quarter of the draw as her sister Venus, the oldest woman in the field at 39. Venus Williams will start by facing the youngest woman in the draw, 15-year-old Coco Gauff of Florida, who won the pair’s matchup at Wimbledon last summer in straight sets and became an instant sensation.

No. 1 seed Ashleigh Barty of Australia, last year’s French Open winner, comes in buoyed by winning a pre-Open tournament in Adelaide, Australia. Defending champion Osaka is the No. 3 seed. Bianca Andreescu of Canada, the 2019 U.S. Open winner, withdrew because of a lingering knee injury.

On the men’s side, the “Big Three” of Rafael Nadal, Djokovic, and Federer will try to maintain their Grand Slam stranglehold. One of the three has won the Australian Open in 13 of the past 14 years, a run interrupted

by Stan Wawrinka in 2014.

Nadal, 33, ended last year as No. 1 in the world after he and Djokovic each won two Slams.

He has two Australian Open titles among his 19 Slam singles

championships.

Djokovic, the defending champion, is a seven-time winner in Australia and the youngest of the trio at 32. With 16 Slam singles titles he has the potential to surpass the 20 won by Federer, who is 38 and hasn’t won a Slam singles event since the 2018 Australian Open.

Djokovic and Federer are in the same half of the draw, setting up a potential semifinal meeting.

John McEnroe, a seven-time Slam singles winner who’s now a commentator for ESPN, said the top three remain favorites despite the advances made by young challengers such as No. 4 seed Daniil Medvedev, who lost a thrilling five-set final to Nadal at last year’s U.S. Open.

“Medvedev, to me, is the guy that has the best chance of winning it right now,” McEnroe said during a conference call. “I think it’s closer than ever, obviously, that these young guys are going to make a breakthrough, but you’ve got to tip your hat to the three guys.”

Conor McGregor, in return to UFC, beats overmatched Donald Cerrone Gene Wang The Washington Post

Conor McGregor spent the days leading to his UFC return keeping a humble profile in stark contrast to his typical prefight bravado. The dynamic Irishman then made an emphatic statement inside the octagon Saturday night, disposing of Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone via stoppage 40 seconds into the first round of the welterweight headline bout in UFC 246 in Las Vegas.

The technical knockout in front of a sold-out, star-studded crowd at T-Mobile Arena was the second quickest in McGregor’s career behind the 13 seconds it took him to finish Jose Aldo in 2015.

McGregor (22-4) took the fight to Cerrone (36-14, 1 no contest) immediately, landing a shoulder strike in the opening seconds that bloodied the nose of UFC’s career leader in

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Conor McGregor meets with Donald Cerrone following his victory during UFC 246 at T-Mobile Arena.

wins, finishes and performance bonuses. With Cerrone hurt, McGregor, 31, wasted no time throttling his veteran opponent while in a clinch before a high kick sent Cerrone back into the cage.

Another left hand sent the

36-year-old Cerrone to the mat, and not long after that strike, referee Herb Dean halted the proceedings, with Cerrone all but helpless to defend himself against the only simultaneous two-division UFC champion.

“I made history here

tonight,” said McGregor, who indicated he wants remain at 170 pounds but welcomes any and all challengers. “I set another record. I’m the first UFC fighter to secure knockouts in featherweight, lightweight and now welterweight.”

McGregor was fighting for the first time since October 2018, when he lost via fourthround submission to Khabib Nurmagomedov, also at T-Mobile Arena.

McGregor revealed he had been drinking throughout training camp leading to the fight against Nurmagomedov, leaving him unfocused and underprepared. He left no doubt against Cerrone, proving his skills have not eroded despite the extended layoff.

“I had never seen anything like it,” Cerrone said after the loss. “I got my ass whipped early.”

Gauff topples Venus again at Australian Open Field Level Media

Six months after her shocking upset of Venus Williams in the first round at Wimbledon, 15-year-old Coco Gauff repeated the feat with a 7-6 (5), 6-3 win over the former world No. 1 in the opening round of the Australian Open on Monday in Melbourne.

The youngest player in the field struck 17 winners and only faced two break points (saving one) against the 39-year-old Williams, the oldest in the field.

After taking the opener on her fourth set point, Gauff broke Williams early in the second set and closed out the match in one hour and 40 minutes.

“My mission is to be the greatest,” Gauff said. “That’s my goal, to win as many Grand Slams as possible.

“But for today, my mission was to win.

I didn’t want to let the nerves come to me.

I know I had a couple set points, and she played well. I knew I had to take it from her.

She wasn’t going to give it to me. That was really the mission.”

Williams, a seven-time Grand Slam singles champion and two-time finalist at the Australian Open, was playing her first match since October.

“She just played really well and really focused,” Williams said. “She clearly wants it, works very hard, is extremely mature for her age. I think the sky’s the limit for her.”

Gauff’s second-round opponent is Romania’s Sorana Cirstea, a 6-2, 7-6 (5) winner against No. 32 seed Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic.

Other first-round winners Monday included defending champion Naomi Osaka of Japan, 23-time major champion Serena Williams, and top-ranked and top-seeded local favorite Ashleigh Barty.

Osaka, the No. 3 seed, saved five of six break points and served seven aces in a 6-2, 6-4 defeat of the Czech Republic’s Marie Bouzkova. The eighth-seeded Williams, a seven-time champion here, opened with a 6-0, 6-3 win against 18-year-old Anastasia Potapova of Russia. Barty overcame a sluggish start for a 5-7, 6-1, 6-1 victory over Ukraine’s Lesia Tsurenko.

Other seeded players advancing included No. 7 Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic, No. 13 Petra Martic of Croatia, No. 14 Sofia Kenin and No. 25 Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia.

In other action, China’s Shuai Zhang eliminated No. 24 seed Sloane Stephens 2-6, 7-5, 6-2 and 2018 Australian Open champ Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark, who is retiring after this event, defeated Kristie Ahn 6-1, 6-3.

NEW YORK — Derek Jeter’s numbers speak for themselves and will get him elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first time on the ballot.

But that part is easy for all to see: 3,465 hits, eight 200-hit seasons, .310 batting average, 1,923 runs scored, five World Series rings, etc. What about the men whose job it was to limit some of those statistics?

In advance of Tuesday’s announcement of the Hall’s Class of 2020 at 6 p.m. on MLB Network, Newsday asked three MLB Network analysts, each of whom — like Jeter — spent more than a decadeand-a-half in the majors, what it was like to pitch to him.

“Derek for me, obviously the numbers reflect it, he was a nuisance,” said Al Leiter, against whom Jeter was 17 for 41, a .415 average. “He was difficult because his approach to hitting wasn’t good for me with respect to how he went the other way. There were a lot of inside-out swings. He took advantage of Yankee Stadium.

“Not that he was a home run guy, but his approach was right-center. My strength was a cut fastball that generally stays on plane, and it jams right-handed hitters. Most guys, they smother it, break their bat, hit a ground ball to short or a little pop-up. His swing, that pitch, unless it was in, he could carve it to right pretty nicely.

“The pitch that got Derek was more of a depth, vertical-break slider from a lefty, something going down and in. That’s the pitch he would smother.

“Derek through what he was with respect to the lineup he was in. I mean, for much of his career, he batted first or second, and those are tablesetters. Those are guys who are trying to get on base, create havoc on the bases, steal a bag here or there, not try and hit the ball out of the park, tough at-bats, grinds it out, sees a lot of pitches.

“That complement for all those years with all the great teams that they had really fit nicely with respect to trying to get the lineup out as a whole but specifically was what made Derek so much more difficult to pitch to.

“Because he was different from some of the other guys, in particular the middle lineup on some of those teams that the Yankees brought out.

Whether it was Tino or Bernie Williams) or O’Neill or some of their other guys back earlier, Strawberry and others. He was not an easy out, and clearly the numbers reflect it.”

Hall of Famer John Smoltz, against whom Jeter was 2 for 18, said, “I pitched long enough to watch him break in and then be able to hit his stride as an obvious, no-brainer Hall of Famer. He was so good at being able to do what I would call take advantage of what pitchers were trying to do to him.

“He was so good at going to right field, but a lot of times going to right field, he did that off of inside pitches where he’d fight them off and get those hits, and if you made a mistake, he’d be able to pull it and hit with power. So I had tremendous respect for him in that regard.

“But I was a guy who lived on the outside part of the plate. So maybe part of my success is it wasn’t the pitch he wanted to hit the other way, that pitch on the outside part.

He would fight them off. We’re not talking about a ton of atbats, but I just know when you step on the mound and Derek is in the box, you have to be really good, because he wasn’t going to go up there and take an at-bat off or kind of take it for granted.

“He was grinding to put the ball in play and obviously get

a hit. I didn’t deviate off my strength and fortunately, I guess I made enough pitches away to get him out more times than he was able to get hits off me.”

Smoltz said the Yankees of the late 1990s — who in 1996 and 1999 beat his Braves in the World Series — were a “perfect blend” as a batting order.

“They weren’t like a bash team where they beat you to death with homers,” he said.

“They worked the lineup, and that was a byproduct of how they constructed their team, so every guy made the next guy better.

“Derek’s presence in the top of that lineup was pretty important, because he worked pitches, he got on base and he got hits and he could run.

“So your attention to detail went straight up when you were trying to limit traffic for the guys who were coming up behind him. I just will never forget ‘96, because ‘96, that was a team where I don’t think they had anybody in the top five or 10 in homers. They just battled and made pitchers work for everything they were trying to get.”

Ryan Dempster faced Jeter 10 times and allowed four hits.

“It was about executing,” he said. “Some guys when you face them, if you didn’t execute a pitch, you get away with it because that wasn’t necessarily like their loading zone or whatever. But with Derek, especially with two strikes, if you didn’t execute that fastball down and away and it ran back over the plate just a little bit, it’s a base hit the other way.

“Everybody says, ‘Oh, he’s trying to go the other way,’ and you try and throw a sinker down and in, and if that ball doesn’t get in on his hands, it’s a line drive back up the middle.

“I know he wasn’t a power hitter, but everybody plays the game differently and he was as good as anybody in playing the game the way he did. Just made you pay for mistakes, especially with two strikes, and pay for them in a way where you weren’t going to get him out.

“He’d foul off tough pitches. He made you make that mistake. He waited. You think of a guy playing Ping-Pong and you’re just sitting there hitting the ball back and forth and back and forth, and then the minute he tries to smash it, it’s off the table. That’s his line drive the other way with two strikes.”

Of course, the Jeter mystique goes well beyond his attributes as a batter. Leiter said it would have been there even if old No. 2 had spent his entire career in, say, Denver.

“He is the essence of a quote-unquote baseball player,” Leiter said, “complete on both sides of the ball, has a high level of care and obviously the fact of being captain, center of the field, shortstop, premium position.

“It sounds kind of basic, but if you talk about the poster of a baseball player with respect to high baseball IQ, understanding what his role is and he’s bringing it to every game and to complement the other players around him, oh, absolutely.

“Now you know and I know, whether it’s New York, Chicago, L.A., cities with greater media attention, of course, forget about Derek, that just makes everybody bigger. Broadway, Madison Avenue, big lights, shiny lights.

“However, I would also say that you’ve seen and I’ve seen how many stars quote-unquote come to New York and can’t handle it, don’t handle it. There’s a comfort level to some players that would stay away from the huge media attention, bright lights, the distractions, etc.”

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Is the status quo what you want forever? Bear in mind, if this man moves in, it will prevent you from finding a partner who is your equal in all ways.

Dear Abby, I have been dating a great guy for a year and a half. He’s funny, smart, and when he comes to my house, he washes my dishes and plays with my son. He is attentive, and he cooks for me. He’s a super fun guy, and he often leaves sweet DEAR ABBY little notes around the house for me.

The downside is, he has zero ambition, zero motivation and no life goals. We are in our early 30s, and I’m a professional with my own home. He lives in a small room in a house with two housemates. His job pays very little, but although he has few responsibilities, he has been very slow to look for other jobs.

Abby, I have talked to him about our future.

We both want to be together, but I told him I am not going to support him. We want to move in together, but he needs to be more financially stable. He needs to be my equal.

When we spoke, he agreed with me and the fact that he can do better. He promised he would be looking, but I have been waiting months to see a change in him and — nothing.

Should I wait for him? Should I talk to him again? I want so much more, and I am not sure he can deliver. What should I do?

Hopelessly Vexed

Dear Abby, My son got married eight months ago. I recently found out he and his wife haven’t sent thank-you notes to anyone.

Some of our friends and family took time off work, traveled across the country, spent a lot of money on airfare, hotels, meals, as well as wedding gifts. I am mortified.

Abby, there were only 60 guests, so there were fewer than 30 thank-you notes to send.

When I asked my son about it last week, he said they hadn’t sent them because so much time had passed and it was too late. I told him it was inexcusable, and they need to get those notes written now because this is definitely a case of better late than never.

If they don’t do it within the next week, I intend to contact my friends and family and thank them myself and apologize for their rudeness. My son was not raised to be ungrateful and rude. What do you think?

Furious In Arizona

I understand your position. You seem to want the whole package, and from what you have written, this person is not it. You should not have to support him, and he shouldn’t expect it.

It appears that while the two of you care for each other, he simply cannot summon up the

What you have in mind may be well-intentioned, but it won’t make up for your son and daughter-in-law’s lack of courtesy. If they fail to contact the guests who made such an effort to attend their wedding, do not speak up on their behalf because it will only make them look worse.

JEANNE PHILLIPS

Evidence of immunity to mumps may have waned over time I am a 67-year-old woman who works with young children. I get a physical each year for my job, and until this year it was acceptable to say that because I was born before 1957, I was presumed to have immunity to measles, mumps and rubella. This year I was required to get an immunization TO YOUR titer, and it came back that I do GOOD HEALTH not have immunity to mumps, although I clearly remember having the mumps. Is mumps as prevalent and as serious as measles? Can I be a carrier and not know it?

DR. KEITH ROACH

Mumps is a highly infectious viral illness. Although both natural infection, like you remember having, and vaccination lead to lifelong immunity in most people, evidence of immunity by blood testing wanes over time. So it is possible that you are still immune to mumps. A high antibody titer is very good evidence of protection, but some people can still fight off reexposure despite low antibody titers.

However, it is strongly recommended that health care workers and others who might be exposed get two doses of MMR vaccine to be sure of protection. The MMR vaccine covers measles, mumps and rubella; there is no vaccine available just for mumps.

Mumps, as a disease, is normally fairly benign; there are no carriers. However, there are still risks of serious complications. Men must be concerned for orchitis: Mumps can directly affect the testes, potentially causing infertility. Inflammation of the ovaries in women is less common, happening in 5% of women who get the disease after puberty. Given the choice between contracting mumps and the far more serious measles, it’s

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You may not have been party to whatever upset a good friend or loved one, but you can surely do a great deal today to ease his or her pain.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — A memory has you swinging into action today in a most surprising way. Those with you may not know where you’re going, but they’ll surely follow.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You may not be

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Blondie

best to get vaccinated and avoid both.

There are a number of gut tests being offered by different companies to look at a person’s microbiome. I have been recommended to use one to look at my gut microbial ecology. Can you comment on the reliability and usefulness of these tests?

It is increasingly clear that the trillions of bacteria that live in our gut have significant impacts on our overall health, but we are just beginning to understand the complex associations. I believe that a comprehensive evaluation of the microbiome may lead to important insights into development of specific medical conditions.

However, I am pretty sure that we aren’t yet at a place where consumer testing is likely to lead to benefits for an individual.

Before ordering any test, it is worthwhile to ask, How will the test result change my behavior?

What will I do differently, and what benefit can I expect? This is true with any clinical laboratory or radiology test a doctor orders, and now that consumers can order this test and others, they should consider whether it’s worth it. I have not found convincing evidence that there are specific actions a person should take based on the results.

There is strong evidence that a diet high in vegetables, legumes, fruits and whole grains, and low in saturated fats, in addition to the known benefits in reducing risk for both cancer and heart disease, also increases the diversity in the microbiome.

In my opinion, there isn’t enough knowledge yet to make commercial microbiome testing likely to lead to an individual benefit.

Hagar the Horrible

Zits

Baby Blues

Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are an energetic and forward-thinking individual, but you know well enough to remain connected to the past — at least to such an extent that you can learn from what has gone before and apply those lessons to what you do today and will do tomorrow and in the days to come. You are upstanding and genuine in all that you say and do; to be untrue to yourself would be the greatest tragedy as far as you are concerned — and there is no excuse for it!

Your ability to anticipate what lies around the next corner is likely unmatched by anyone else born under your sign, and this is a skill you put to good use in all things — but most importantly in your personal affairs.

Also born on this date are: Jerry Trainor, actor; Emma Lee Bunton, singer; Geena Davis, actress; Mac Davis, actor and singer; Hakeem Olajuwon, basketball player; Jack Nicklaus, golfer; Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, Confederate military leader.

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.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22

Family Circus

able to settle into one task or activity today because there are so many people who want something from you. Give what you can!

TAURUS (April 2-May 20) — You may not be able to deal with mounting pressure today unless you find time for yourself. The social scene adds to your anxiety.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You may find yourself making unexpected progress in a new direction today. Those who have been there before have some valuable advice to give.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Preparations may take longer today than the task for which you are preparing, but your thoroughness will surely be worth it come nightfall.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You may spend a great deal of thought on a problem that was not of your making. During afternoon hours, a solution slowly begins to take shape.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — A promise is kept today that gives you renewed enthusiasm for something you thought was fading away for good.

Give someone what he deserves.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — A new opportunity is revealed to you today, but you may not be able to take advantage of it right away. You have a brilliant idea!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Whether you are inside or outside, you will be affected by environmental influences — some that you can feel directly and some that you cannot.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — A perceived threat seems to be much more than it really is, and you can lessen its overall impact today by addressing it head-on.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Whether you are in charge of others or only yourself, you’ll want to do all you can to optimize resources and preserve integrity.

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B8 Tuesday, January 21, 2020 Close to Home

SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

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Yesterday’s Saturday’s

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

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

Beach Level 1

2

3

(e.g., It’s in the center of South Carolina’s “The Grand Strand.” Answer: Myrtle Beach.)

Freshman level 1. The hard-packed sand made this Florida beach a mecca for motorsports.

2. Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate is in this Florida beach town.

3. This beach was popularized by the song “The Girl From ____.”

Graduate level 4. “The ____ Beach Diet” was a best-selling 2003 book.

5. Brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson were part of this rock band.

6. This beach is a neighborhood in Honolulu on the island of Oahu.

PH.D. level 7. This California beach is home to Balboa Island.

8. Neil Simon play: “_____ Beach Memoirs.”

9. On D-Day, Allied forces landed on the beaches of this French region.

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

(Answerstomorrow) tomorrow) (Answers Jumbles: AROMA TOXIN EAGLE METHOD TRUSTY Jumbles: SCARF DECEIT HUMANE When the politician Answer: For Ringo, replacingwas Petearrested Best asfor thecorruption, Beatles’ Answer: his supporters — RAN OUT OF “ESTEEM” drummer — MADE HIM A “STARR”

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Solution to Saturday’s puzzle Monday’s puzzle

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

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SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Daytona Beach. 2. Palm Beach. 3. Ipanema (Beach). 4. South (Beach). 5.

The Beach Boys. 6. Waikiki (Beach). 7. Newport Beach. 8. Brighton (Beach). 9.

Normandy.

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

Mutts

Dilbert

Pickles For Better or For Worse

Get Fuzzy

Hi & Lois

Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 Be lost in thought 5 Sticker 10 Unconscious state 14 Aggravates 15 Sidestep 16 Felt remorseful about 17 Middle __; historical period 18 Harassed 20 Matching pair 21 Dull lecturer 22 Puts in danger 23 Thorax 25 Pub. prosecutors 26 Globe’s shape 28 Tendons 31 Planet’s path 32 Traditional Sioux home 34 So. state 36 Word attached to bell or knob 37 Stockpile 38 Crock-Pot meal, perhaps 39 Hustle & bustle 40 Crevice filler 41 Kinder 42 Coils of yarn 44 Powerful 45 Jet __; travel woe 46 1 of the 5 senses 47 Many times 50 Word attached to eye or whip 51 TV’s “The __ Couple” 54 Like a child growing up too fast 57 Out of town 58 “Krakatoa, __ of Java”; 1969 film 59 Right __; 90-degree figure 60 __ up; become cheerful again 61 Pecans & pistachios 62 Goes on and on 63 Acacia or alder DOWN 1 Farrow & Hamm 2 Exhort 3 Drawing tablet 4 Feminine suffix

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5 Oust from the throne 6 Chris of tennis 7 “I couldn’t __ less” 8 Promos 9 Marvin or Majors 10 Vacation at sea 11 Time-__; game pauses 12 “Blessed are the __…”

13 Finds a sum 19 Lifting machine 21 Ernie’s buddy 24 One listed in a will 25 Breathed one’s last ord attached 26 Scotch & __; to mixed drink 27 Elbows 28 Full of pep 29 Lookout post 30 Wicked weather sight 32 Tricycle riders 33 “Please Don’t __ the Daisies” 35 Twisted; askew 37 Like some juries 38 Exhale audibly

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Saturday’s Puzzle Solved Solved Monday’s Puzzle

Non Sequitur

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40 Keyboard instrument 41 Near, to a poet 43 Chooses for public office 44 Unmarried women 46 __ Ste. Marie 47 Out in the __; exposed

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48 Hamburg wife 49 SAT, for one 50 Cabin wall pieces 52 Show boldness 53 Actor Dick Van __ 55 Baseball’s __ Ripken Jr. 56 __ flash; instantly 57 Tenement bldg. unit

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