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continuing to generate jobs,” he said.

Throughout the state, leisure and hospitality had the third-highest employment increase in the last year, with almost 21,000 jobs gained.

Greene County had the third-highest percentage for job growth in rural areas in the state and the fourth highest overall, Greene County Chamber of Commerce President Jeff Friedman said.

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A recent report from the state Department of Labor revealed that the number of jobs in Greene County is at an alltime high, county officials said Monday.

The county experienced a 1.9% increase in nonfarm jobs from December 2018 to December 2019, according to the report, going from 15,700 jobs to 16,000. Greene County was among seven areas that are gaining jobs faster than

the state rate, according to the report. The other counties include Allegany, Seneca, Ithaca Metro, Cortland, Sullivan and New York City.

“We are doing well in a variety of sectors,” Greene County Department of Economic Development and Planning Director Karl Heck said.

The county is experiencing growth in a few sectors, such as manufacturing and hospitality, and none of the sectors are declining, Heck said.

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CATSKILL — A historic fog bell on the Greene County approach to the Rip Van Winkle Bridge rang for the first time in nearly two decades last week after it was restored.

Fog bells served as navigation tools for ferry boats traveling on the Hudson River.

Marc Griffin, an assistant foreman with the New York State Bridge Authority, had been advocating to have the bell restored for about 15 years.

“It’s a piece of forgotten history,” Griffin said. “It’s a local bell, made in Troy.”

Griffin estimates that the company, Meneeley and Company, may have been the first bell company in the United States.

“They were renowned for their work throughout the world,” he said.

Meneeley and Company was founded in 1826 by Andrew Meneeley in West Troy, today known as Watervliet, according to nysl.nysed.gov. Meneeley studied under Julius Hanks, who CONTRIBUTED PHOTO was the first man to open a bell Marc Griffin with the roof he built for the bell display. foundry in the Troy area.

The bell was stationed on a pier close to the river when the bridge was built in 1934, Griffin said.

“Fog bells were used so ships would not hit the bridge on foggy days on their way up the river,” he said. “This was long before radar.”

The bell stopped working and was removed from the pier about 19 years ago, Griffin said.

“I cleaned it up and we put it on display,” Griffin said.

Griffin’s first display was made using a wooden beam, which deteriorated over time.

The new design will be more weather-proof, according to the SARAH TRAFTON/COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA Bridge Authority.

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The historic fog bell at the Rip Van Winkle Bridge approach in Catskill.

Public hearing Tuesday on Greenport detox center

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Brush is cleared at the corner of Merle Avenue and Route 66 in Greenport on Monday near the proposed People USA detox center will stand. The project is before the Greenport Planning Board.

GREENPORT — A public hearing will be held Tuesday on a detox center proposed for the town that would help local addicts get the fresh start they need.

The town Planning Board will hold two public hearings Tuesday at their monthly meeting, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the town offices, 600 Town Hall Drive, Hudson, for two major projects proposed in the town.

The first hearing is for three 12-unit and two 10-unit apartments for a 56-unit apartment complex at 540 Joslen Boulevard proposed by PDP/ Joslen Luxury Apartments.

The second will be for the proposed 20-bed, medically supervised withdrawal and stabilization facility on 1.5 acres at Merle Avenue and Route 66.

The detox facility project is being proposed by People USA, whose CEO, Steve Miccio, said the facility would fill the need for a center between Albany and Poughkeepsie and would serve patients locally in Columbia and Greene counties.

The building will measure 10,610 square feet. The facility has 30 feet of sidewalk for access to the facility, but People USA said it does not anticipate much foot traffic back and forth from the site, according to the minutes. The facility

would be built across from an apartment complex, The Falls, a day care and Questar III on Route 66.

Columbia County Board of Supervisors Chairman Matt Murell said the county has been working in concert with Greene County to develop an opioid response plan. The detox facility falls in line with one of the Twin Counties’ needs outlined in the plan, first drafted by Columbia County.

“What ultimately happens with the project will be up to the local government to decide,” Murell said. “But we have identified a detox and rehab facility as something we need in Columbia County, and See DETOX A8

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to announce an investigation of Joe Biden, who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, and his son Hunter.

The president denied Bolton’s claims in a series of angry tweets that began after midnight and picked up again in the early morning.

“I NEVER told John Bolton that the aid to Ukraine was tied to investigations into Democrats, including the Bidens,” he wrote. “In fact, he never complained about this at the time of his very public termination. If John Bolton said this, it was only to sell a book.”

It’s unclear whether Bolton’s description of his conversation with the president will cause Trump’s lawyers to alter their defense arguments. After giving an abbreviated defense on Saturday, they were expected to shift the focus Monday toward Biden and his son Hunter, who served on the board of a Ukrainian gas company.

Trump and his lawyers have tried to portray the Bidens as corrupt in order to justify Trump’s request for Ukraine to investigate them. The Bidens

have denied any wrongdoing.

After defense arguments are finished, senators will get 16 hours to submit written questions followed by an opportunity to debate whether witnesses should be called. That debate could occur as soon as Thursday.

Bolton has offered to testify to the Senate if he is subpoenaed.

He had resisted a request from the Democratic-controlled House during the impeachment proceedings there.

It’s still unclear if four Republicans will join Senate Democrats to subpoena Bolton and possibly other witnesses.

Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., have sought to ensure a speedy path to acquittal without any witnesses.

Trump could try to block the testimony from his former national security adviser on the basis of executive privilege, which allows presidents to keep confidential their deliberative conversations with aides. But it’s not clear that Trump has any enforcement provisions if Bolton decides to honor a Senate subpoena.

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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 27: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) arrives at the U.S. Capitol January 27, 2020, in Washington, DC. The defense team will continue its arguments on day six of the Senate impeachment trial against President Donald Trump.

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WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans’ loyalty to President Donald Trump could face its starkest test yet this week after John Bolton, the former national security adviser, reportedly wrote that Trump told Bolton he had blocked U.S. military aid to Ukraine in an effort to get Ukraine to investigate a Democratic rival.

The revelations, contained in a book draft, sent tremors through Capitol Hill on Monday morning hours before Trump’s lawyers were set to resume their defense of the president, which began Saturday morning.

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, told reporters that “it’s increasingly likely” that there will be enough votes to subpoena Bolton as a witness, as Democrats have demanded.

“The reports about John Bolton’s book strengthens the case for witnesses and have prompted a number of conversations among my colleagues,” said Sen. Susan Collins, RMaine, another key moderate.

Even Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a firm Trump ally who has opposed having any witnesses, suggested he would be open to some kind of agreement to bring in witnesses.

“If there is a desire and decision by the Senate to call Democratic witnesses, then at a minimum the Senate should allow President realDonaldTrump to call all relevant witnesses he has requested,” Graham tweeted.

Trump’s lawyers have staked their defense in part on denying any link between the events at the heart of the impeachment case, which alleges that Trump abused his power by pressuring a foreign government to help his reelection campaign — and then obstructed Congress by ordering aides not to testify or provide documents.

Trump’s lawyers also have repeatedly declared that no witness had firsthand knowledge of a direct link between the White House order to withhold $391 million in congressionally authorized security aid and Trump’s push for Ukraine

Democrats say a claim of executive privilege would fail because Bolton has already written his story in his book draft, which was submitted to the White House for classification review on Dec. 30 and is scheduled to be published in March, and because executive privilege is not a shield for presidential wrongdoing.

“Senators should insist that Mr. Bolton be called as a witness, and provide his notes and other relevant documents,” the House impeachment managers said in a joint statement Sunday after the New York Times reported the details from Bolton’s manuscript. “The Senate trial must seek the full truth and Mr. Bolton has vital information to provide.”

Bolton could have additional evidence in his possession as well.

“He is known to be a voracious note taker,” said a Democratic aide working on the impeachment trial, and may have a “contemporaneous account” of his conversations with Trump on Ukraine.

Unlike some who testified during House impeachment hearings, Bolton is a Republican establishment figure with government service dating back to President Reagan’s administration. His hawkish views and sharp elbows in bureaucratic battles made him controversial, but he’s respected by many high-profile Republicans.

Romney called Bolton a “brilliant man” when Trump fired him in September after disputes over the president’s policy in Syria, North Korea and other parts of the world.

McConnell also praised Bolton at the time.

“I always appreciated John’s candor and clear advice,” he said.

BAGHDAD — A suspected militia attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad wounded one person late Sunday, officials said, underscoring the growing risks to personnel there amid calls for an end to the American military presence.

Late-night rocket or mortar attacks on Baghdad’s Green Zone, home to government buildings and embassies, have become commonplace as the Trump administration increases financial and political pressure on Iran, which backs a number of militias in Iraq.

The strike Sunday marked a rare direct hit inside the U.S. Embassy’s heavily fortified compound and was the first in years to apparently wound foreign personnel inside the facility. One mortar shell hit the dining area, while two others landed close by, officials said.

The identity of the wounded individual was not made public Monday, but U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject, said the person suffered an injury that was not life-threatening

and that a small fire was extinguished.

Speaking to reporters after a visit to Cairo, Gen. Kenneth “Frank” McKenzie Jr., head of U.S. Central Command, said that the attack injured one person but that the person has since “returned to duty.” Initial reports suggested that the person was a U.S. contractor.

The mortar attack also caused a fire that was put out, McKenzie said.

Maj. John Rigsbee, a U.S. military spokesman, said all Defense Department personnel in the compound have been accounted for.

Sunday’s attack came almost exactly a month after a similar attack killed an American contractor on a military base in northern Iraq, sparking an intense round of brinkmanship that pushed the United States and Iran to the edge of open conflict.

In late December, after the United States launched retaliatory airstrikes on an Iranian-backed militia, Kataib Hezbollah, its supporters responded with a brief siege of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

Days later, President Trump ordered a drone strike that killed one of Iran’s top military commanders as he arrived in Baghdad. Tehran

hit back with waves of ballistic missiles on a section of Iraq’s Ain al-Asad air base housing U.S. troops. At least 34 U.S. service members have since been treated for traumatic brain injuries.

Although tensions have ebbed, Sunday’s attack highlighted the persistent threat to U.S. diplomatic and military facilities in Iraq.

The Iraqi prime minister is under growing pressure to expel foreign troops, and rocket attacks on the Green Zone have become a weekly occurrence. No group has asserted responsibility for the Sunday strike, or any before it. Kataib Hezbollah denied involvement. Militiamen from other groups also publicly condemned the attack.

In a statement, Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi described it as a “hostile” act.

“While condemning this illegal act, we instructed our security forces to arrest the attackers and bring them to justice,” he said.

Analysts and Western officials believe that Abdul Mahdi has limited control over Iraq’s constellation of militia groups, particularly those backed or influenced by Iran.

Several have been involved in a deadly crackdown on

anti-government protesters in Iraq. Although the prime minister has repeatedly vowed to punish those responsible for the worst violations, no senior figures have been faced any consequences.

The Washington Post’s Mustafa Salim in Baghdad, Missy Ryan aboard a military aircraft and John Hudson in Washington contributed to this report.

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CALENDAR Tuesday, Jan. 28 n Catskill Town Planning Board 7 p.m.

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

HUDSON — The city has received grant funding and technical assistance to address community displacement triggers such as gentrification and lack of affordable housing, officials announced Thursday.

Hudson is one of 10 communities across the state to receive a New York State Anti-Displacement Learning Network grant from Enterprise Community Partners in conjunction with the state Attorney General’s Office.

The grant will help city officials prevent displacement of low-income communities through peer advice and possible funding for specific strategies.

The city adopted a resolution on Oct. 29, 2019 to submit the application to Enterprise Community Partners at the request of 1st Ward Alderwoman Rebecca Wolff before she was named Common Council minority leader.

“Hudson’s low- and middle-income residents are being displaced in the current inflated housing market,” Wolff said. “This is a crisis of community that is negatively affecting the character and health of our city. The anti-displacement grant comes with a mandate to bring together elected officials, agencies and impacted residents to identify and implement meaningful

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Tuesday, Feb. 4 n Durham Town Board workshop

meeting 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham

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

the Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Coxsackie Town Planning Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 16 Reed St., Coxsackie n Coxsackie Village Workshop meeting 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

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

Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m. Catskill Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

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ees at 3:30 p.m. Library, 15 Railroad Ave., Cairo 518-622-9864 n Coxsackie Town Board workshop 6 p.m. Town Hall, 16 Reed St., Coxsackie n Coxsackie Village Historic Preservation Committee 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

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solutions to address the crisis.”

The goal of the grant is to target displacement caused by a variety of triggers, ranging from gentrification to limited supply of quality rental housing and tax foreclosures and can be exacerbated by local code enforcement and housing policies, according to the grant application.

“Displacement, according to the application, disproportionately harms low-income communities, under-resourced, marginalized, and communities of color, but its impacts

reverberate across local communities, causing lasting impacts on poverty and economic mobility and over community well-being,” according to the application.

The program consists of three phases, according to the Enterprise Community Partners’ website: n Phase I: Municipal teams will learn about various strategies to address displacement through webinars and peer-to-peer discussions. n Phase II: Each municipal team will receive up to 20 hours of technical assistance from Enterprise’s

consultant team to select an anti-displacement strategy and develop a plan to implement the chosen strategy. During this phase, each team may submit a funding request of up to $1 million to Enterprise to implement the chosen strategy. n Phase III: Municipal teams that have been awarded implementation funding will execute their chosen strategies.

The program would be completed by Dec. 31, 2021.

Enterprise will provide technical assistance and peerto-peer learning on antidisplacement strategies for

Hudson. Each participant will join a peer learning exchange by phone or in person on a biweekly basis for a period of three months.

The first two phases include a stipend of up to $25,000 per project team to “support community stakeholders’ time participating in the process,” according to the application.

Wolff led the Hudson grant application, with assistance from 3rd Ward County Supervisor and Mayoral Aide Michael Chameides. Dan Kent from the Galvan Foundation provided technical support. The Anti-Displacement Project team also includes 3rd Ward Alderman Calvin Lewis, service provider Serria McGriff and Mayor Kamal Johnson.

“Several community organizations contributed to the application and expressed interest in collaborating on the project,” according to a statement from the city.

“This grant is an important step in addressing our housing crisis,” Johnson said in a statement Thursday. “I look forward to partnering with community leaders from Hudson and around New York State to create solutions.”

To reach reporter Amanda Purcell, call 518-828-1616 ext.

2500, or send an email to apurcell@thedailymail.net, or tweet to @amandajpurcell.

Wednesday, Feb. 12 n Catskill Central School District BOE

The TurfMutt Foundation announces The (Really) Great Outdoors Contest

6:30 p.m. High School Library, 341 West Main St., Catskill n Jewett Town Board 7 p.m. Jewett Municipal Building, 3547 County Route 23C, Jewett

Thursday, Feb. 13 n Windham-Ashland-Jewett CSD BOE

audit finance committee 5:15 p.m. in superintendent’s office; regular meeting 6 p.m. in the School Library, 5411 Route 23, Windham

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The TurfMutt Foundation announces The (Really) Great Outdoors Contest 2020, focused on urging kids to use their imaginations around the many uses and benefits of green space and the outdoors.

Open to students in grades six to eight, last year’s contest drew over 2,700 submissions from middle school youth.

Created in partnership with Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education and media company, the contest encourages students to write about and/or draw a nature space their community could use. Students are also asked to include text to

Monday, Feb. 17 n Coxsackie Town Offices closed in

observation of President’s Day n Coxsackie Village Offices closed in observation of President’s Day n Greenville Town Offices closed in observation of President’s Day

Tuesday, Feb. 18 n Durham Town Board 7:30 p.m.

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

Wednesday, Feb. 19 n Catskill Library Board 6:45 p.m. at

either the Catskill Library, 1 Franklin St., Catskill or Palenville Library, 3303 Route 23A, Palenville

describe the space, discuss what elements are needed, and how their space will be used to benefit the community. Each entry can be no more than three pages.

“We mean it when we say nature starts at your back door. Introducing kids to the outdoors is good for them and good for all of us,” says Kris Kiser, President and CEO of the TurfMutt Foundation and the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute. “Family yards, school yards and parks are part of a vast ecosystem that supports all of us. The contest helps the next generation envision how people— wherever they may live— can spend time outside.”

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Last year’s contest was open to middle schoolers for the first time. “Our winners last year imagined beautiful and, more importantly, functional and purposeful designs for green spaces,” said Kiser.

“We want kids to understand that our lawns and greenspaces are urban habitats. These spaces are critical to wildlife, pollinators, and the health and well-being of communities,” said Kiser.

“They need to picture themselves within those greenspaces — and the contest is a great way for them to do that.”

Ten thousand dollars in prizes will be awarded through the contest. The grand prize for a student is $2,500, with teachers and the school each receiving a $750 prize. The first place student will receive $2,000 and the teacher and the school will each receive $500. The second place student will receive $1,500 and the teacher and the school will each receive $250. The third place student will receive $750 and the teacher and the school will each receive $125.

Teachers can download lesson plans and contest entry information from www.

scholastic.com/turfmutt.

Entries can be accepted online and uploaded by teachers, or mailed in by teachers or students alike. Entries are due March 16, 2020. Last year’s winning entries are available online for viewing.

The program’s educational materials are free and support Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) standards for grades K–8. The TurfMutt environmental education program, funded and managed by OPEI’s Research and Education Foundation, has reached 70 million students, teachers, and families since 2009.

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Prison closings demand more study As inmate populations in New York state decline, Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed legislation last week that would allow for more state prisons to be closed. In other words, Cuomo would have largely unchallenged power to close prisons. The idea is good. The method is not.

There are numerous dimensions of this plan to be examined first.

One is prison violence. The New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association have legitimate concerns. “At a time when prison violence is at an all-time high, the governor and the Legislature should be working with us and our members to find solutions to make our prisons safer,” NYSCOPBA President Michael B. Powers said. “The last thing we need is incarcerated individuals tightly crammed into prisons, creating nothing more than a powder keg of violence.”

Greene County’s two state prisons, Greene and Coxsackie correctional facilities, both experienced inmate-on-CO assaults in the fall. Over the last 20 years, state prisons have seen a 39% reduction

in the inmate population, but violence in state prisons is on the rise, the union said.

“The governor’s call for more prison closures is shortsighted and fails to consider the devastating impacts a closure can have on the men and women working inside the facilities, their families and the surrounding communities,” the union said. “Fifteen prisons have closed under Gov. Cuomo’s administration, forcing consolidation of the state’s most dangerous criminals into close quarters with one another.”

Closing a prison has an economic impact. With two prisons, Coxsackie is virtually a company town. A prison closing there would end the livelihoods of hundreds of people.

State law requires a year’s notice before a prison can be closed. Cuomo wants to accelerate that clock to just 90 days’ notice. The state inmate population is in free fall, so there is no need for an overabundance of prisons, but giving Cuomo sweeping authority to close prisons more quickly is the wrong way to go.

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Spyware is everywhere (c) 2020, The Washington Post

We don’t know for certain that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman hacked into Washington Post owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s iPhone by sending him malicious code on WhatsApp, though a contracted cybersecurity consultancy has concluded as much with “medium to high confidence.” We do know, however, that spyware sold by private companies has been responsible for similar intrusions - and that the world has done far too little to shed light on the shadowy industry that sells these tools.

Once upon a time, high-tech surveillance was out of reach for all but the most sophisticated countries. Now, almost any government that wants to penetrate citizens’ (or noncitizens’) most sensitive communications can do so, simply by buying one of the more than 150 tools available on the market. These products can be used for tracking down terrorists domestically or for spying on enemies abroad. But they can also be used for stamping out dissent, blackmailing business executives or many other nefarious ends.

There’s NSO Group in Tel Aviv, whose Pegasus software has been harnessed by Saudi Arabia, Mexico and other governments to target hundreds of civil society organizers around the world. There’s DarkMatter in Abu Dhabi, which transformed a human rights defender’s baby monitor into an eavesdropping device.

There’s the Anglo-German Gamma Group, whose FinSpy program in 2012 transmitted the communications of an Ethiopian dissident back to that country’s then-ruling regime - along with the Web

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searches of his young son. There’s Hacking Team in Milan, which reportedly has the capability to carry out an attack of the sort Bezos may have suffered.

NSO Group claims it only sells its technology to countries with acceptable records on civil liberties that seek the tool for criminal investigations. Yet not only has NSO furnished authoritarian regimes with its product anyway; it has also looked the other way when governments go after dissenters - and even aided them. At least NSO claims to have a policy; other companies don’t even pretend. Similarly, while some countries have imposed export controls on spyware purveyors, many licensing regimes are too opaque to do much good. And other countries have done nothing.

U.N. special rapporteur David Kaye this summer urged a global moratorium on the sale and transfer of spyware until the international community devises a regulatory framework. That’s the correct approach. Governments should require vendors to certify that clients pass human rights muster, and that they don’t abuse a tool after purchase. A body of independent reviewers, in turn, should certify that the companies are living up to those obligations.

The world has a spyware proliferation problem. Democracies that work together to stem the flow won’t stop countries such as China from exporting surveillance systems to despots around the world. But it will at least tell those who care about civil liberties that this abuse is the exception, and not one that should be tolerated or condoned.

GOP senators must focus on their duty to find the truth WASHINGTON — The upside of Republicans’ determined illogic in the impeachment trial of President Trump — arguments first, fact-finding later — is that it has injected a note of drama into proceedings whose finale seems inevitable.

Will the House managers be permitted to call witnesses? More pointedly, does the Republican-controlled Senate care more about acquitting the president — and avoiding antagonizing his base — or about living up to its constitutional responsibilities?

This is, sadly, the most open of questions. The lead House manager, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., put the challenge directly to senators in his opening argument Tuesday, quoting, of course, Alexander Hamilton from Federalist 65: “Where else than in the Senate could have been found a tribunal sufficiently dignified, or sufficiently independent?

What other body would be likely to feel confidence enough in its own situation, to preserve, unawed and uninfluenced, the necessary impartiality between an individual accused, and the representatives of the people, his accusers?”

Hamilton’s lofty expectations ring hollow in an era when Republican senator after senator has remained silent in the face of Trump’s conduct. There are few better angels in the age of Trump, at least angels who have managed to remain in office. Still, it must have been painful for at least a handful of Republicans to be confronted with Hamilton’s hopes.

“It is up to you to be the tribunal that Hamilton envisioned,” Schiff told them.

Woven throughout the presentation was this challenge to senators: Before voting to acquit the president, if that is their inclination, shouldn’t they at least insist on obtaining and weighing the facts?

“The truth is going to come out,” Schiff said later.

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MARCUS “Indeed, the truth has already come out, but more and more of it will. More emails are going to come out. More witnesses are going to come forward. They are going to have more relevant information to share.

And the only question is: Do you want to hear it now? Do you want to know the full truth now?”

In pressing their case for additional witnesses and documents, Schiff and the House managers confront an obvious tension: If the evidence they are now seeking is so important, why did the House Democratic majority not pursue it more vigorously when it had the power to issue subpoenas?

One response is that maybe the House erred, but we are where we are, and it’s up to the Senate to seek relevant information. Another is that new details and significant witnesses have emerged since the House acted. A third, snarkier answer is that insisting that the House should have gone to court is more than a bit rich, given that the Trump Justice Department is in court arguing that the House has no authority to seek to enforce subpoenas there.

A related tension: If the evidence against the president is strong enough to justify his removal from office, is more really needed?

Here, it is consistent to argue that the evidence already amassed is sufficient to convict Trump and that those who assess it differently are obligated to seek more. As Schiff argued, “You may agree with the House managers that the evidence of the president’s

withholding of military aid to coerce Ukraine is already supported by overwhelming evidence, ... but if the president’s lawyers attempt to contest these or other factual matters, you are left with no choice but to demand to hear from each witness with firsthand knowledge.”

Trump’s team faces its own challenges in arguing against new evidence, which may help explain why they have pressed the argument that the articles of impeachment fail because they do not accuse Trump of a criminal offense. That is flatly incorrect; see the conclusion of the Republicans’ own witness before the House Judiciary Committee, Jonathan Turley, who termed it “a view that is at odds with history and the purpose of the Constitution.”

But accepting the Trump lawyers’ ill-founded argument offers an easy out to senators ill-informed enough to accept it: If no amount of evidence could justify convicting Trump, then no new evidence is needed.

The president’s lawyers also argue that it’s too late to gather new information.

“If the House has not done the investigation and cannot support its case, then it is not the time, once it arrives here, to start doing all of that work,” Patrick Philbin, deputy counsel to the president, told the Senate.

This is hard to square with the precedent of previous impeachments, which have included witnesses. It is even harder to square with the Senate’s duty, which is — or should be — to determine the truth of what happened, not to protect Trump from the consequences of his own behavior.

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Joseph Michael Palmatier, Jr. Joseph Michael PalmaIn the past few years, Joe tier, Jr., 72, husband of Judith face several very serious health (Gormley) Palmatier passed issues requiring hospitalizaaway unexpectedly Saturday, tions, surgeries & many stays January 25th, 2020. He was in rehabilitation facilities. He born in Hudson, NY on May 25, fought through every problem 1947 to the late Joseph M. Pal- with strength and dignity – never matier, Sr. & Evelyn B. (Melius) giving up.

Palmatier. Joe was a graduate Joe is survived by his wife of Hudson High School in Hud- of almost 4 years, Judy; 3 sons son, NY class of 1965. He also & 3 grandchildren, Sean & his graduated from Columbia Me- wife Kate of Beverly, Jason & morial Hospital School his wife Kate with their of Nursing in 1978 sons Tyler & Connor of where he met his future Gloucester, and Adam wife, Judy. They moved & his wife Tina with Adto Rockport, MA in am’s daughter Anessa 1980. Joe worked at of Gloucester. He is Beverly Hospital 1980 also survived by his to 1981 and Addison brother Allan & his wife Gilbert Hospital from Amanda of Round Top, 1981 until his retireNY & Allan’s children ment in 2007. Joe loved Palmatier, Jr. Keith & Cassandra. He coaching his son’s variis predeceased by his ous sports teams throughout daughter Amy & his parents Jothe years. He also loved fishing seph & Evelyn Palmatier. with his children and grandchilVisiting hours will be on dren. Joe discovered his Native Thursday, January 30th from American heritage and met sev- 5:00-9:00PM in the Greely Fueral who were distantly related neral Home, 212 Washington to him. He became very active Street, Gloucester. Family and in attending Pow Wows, sing- friends are cordially invited. Sering and playing on the drum and vice and burial will be held pridancing in circle. He had a large vately. For online condolence, group of Native people who be- please visit www.greelyfuneralcame family. home.com

Jane Simmons Lappies Jane Simmons Lappies, 92, frey, Sally and Stephen here in of Chatham, New York passed the village and at their beloved away peacefully on January 24. Queechy Lake home. Jane was Born on June 7, 1927, predeceased by husshe grew up in Chaband Bob, daughter tham and graduated Susan, son Stephen in the Chatham High and daughter-in-law School class of 1945.

Pam Lappies. She is She was a gradusurvived by her daughate of the Mildred Elter Sally, son Jeff, and ley Business School grandchildren Danof Albany and was a iel and Cristian Laplicensed real estate pies, Justin Dembski, broker during the 70s Sara Mesick and great Lappies and 80s. Jane married grandchild Eli Lappies.

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Harvey Weinstein accuser Mimi Haley testifies he raped her in 2006

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NEW YORK — A former production assistant broke into tears Monday as she told a Manhattan jury how film tycoon Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her in 2006 in his SoHo loft and once again in a Tribeca hotel.

Despite her desperate pleas and futile attempts to fight him off, Mimi Haley said Weinstein easily overpowered her, pinning her down against her will before he pulled out her tampon and performed oral sex on her.

“Every time I tried to get off the bed he would push me back and hold me down,” Haley said. “He pushed me down, he held me down, and by my arms. I said, ‘No, no.’ And that point I started realizing what was actually happening; I’m being raped.”

A week later, Haley said she endured a second episode, when she met Weinstein at his request at a hotel in Tribeca.

“I was trying to make sense of what had happened, why it had happened,” Haley said. “I wasn’t sure how to handle it.”

But it didn’t take long for her to realize that she was in for more of the same.

“He took my hand and pulled me toward the bed,” Haley said. “I just went numb.

I thought, ‘Here we go again.’”

Weinstein, she testified, literally added insult to injury during the sexual intercourse.

“He said something like ‘you’re a whore and a bitch,” Haley said. “He thought that, like, somehow turned me on.”

Prosecutors said the Hollywood movie mogul raped and sexually assaulted multiple young women, including Haley, over the course of decades.

Haley, 42, was introduced to Weinstein in 2004 at the European premiere of the movie “The Aviator” and later worked on a TV show he produced in New York City.

Weinstein’s attorneys tried to dismiss her account of events, sharing a text message they said suggests she wanted to keep seeing him and the sexual encounters were consensual.

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The first transport of Jews to Auschwitz was 997 teenage girls. Few survived.

By Gillian Brockell The Washington Post

As world leaders gather in Poland Monday to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, Edith Friedman Grosman will be far away in Toronto. On Monday, the energetic 95-year-old, who was on the first official transport of Jews to Auschwitz, plans to live-stream the ceremony from home, but only if she feels up to it.

She’s already returned to Auschwitz four times, and that’s enough.

“I’m glad they’re doing something for Auschwitz 75,” she told The Washington Post. “But they have to do something in 100 years and 125 years, too.”

Friedman Grosman grew up in the village of Hummené, Slovakia, with her parents and older sister, Lea. Slovakia joined the Axis powers in 1940. Soon, Edith was forced to leave the public high school, and her dad had to sell his glass-cutting business to a Christian, whom he then worked for.

Even amid the Jewish crackdown, it was still a surprise when the town crier announced a new order - all unmarried women 15 and older were to report to the school gymnasium in two weeks.

They were told they would be registering for three months of work in a shoe factory, and that it was their patriotic duty to help in the war effort. But when they showed up to “register,” they were strip-searched, loaded into trucks and taken away. Most were teenagers, some were in their twenties, and a handful of mothers in their forties boarded in place of their daughters. None of those mothers would survive.

Over the next few days, Jewish girls were swept up from all the surrounding villages. By the end of the week, Friedman Grosman, then 17, and her sister Lea, 19, were on the first official transport of Jews to Auschwitz, arriving by train on March 27, 1942.

But who ordered that first transport? And why take girls?

Documentation is lost to history, but Heather Dune Macadam has a theory. Macadam has spent more than 20 years researching and writing about the girls, and recently published a book about them called “999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz.”

“My sense is that it was [Heinrich] Himmler, but the Slovak government was certainly party to it,” Macadam told The Post.

Himmler had ordered 999 German women from the Ravensbrück prison to be transferred to Auschwitz to serve as prison guards ahead of the Slovak girls’ arrival, she said. And that number - 999 - which may have been an occult obsession of Himmler’s, matched the number of girls who were supposed to be on that first Jewish transport.

(Macadam found that authorities miscounted; in reality, there were 997.)

“The parents, of course, [were] duped,” Macadam said. But “this was a patriarchal society, and you’re more likely to give up your daughter than your son.”

These young women arrived at a pivotal moment in the concentration camp’s history. At first, it had been a Nazi prison for Poles of every ethnicity, then for Soviet POWs. By 1942, the Nazis were focusing on gathering up Jews, though they had not yet started their “Final Solution” - mass extermination.

In fact, the girls’ real job wasn’t to make shoes, but to build the very infrastructure that would convert the camp into a death machine.

Over the next year, they were brutally forced to demolish

Photo courtesy of Edith Friedman Grosman.

Edith Friedman Grosman’s sister, Lea Friedman, second from right, with other girls from their Slovakian village on Passover circa 1936. Lea died in Auschwitz.

old buildings with their bare hands, empty trash out of frozen lakes and build dozens of new barracks. For clothing, they were given the bloody uniforms of dead Soviet soldiers and a few striped dresses with no undergarments. Their entire bodies were shaved, and their shoes were flat pieces of wood with flimsy cloth ties.

Most of them died that first year - of starvation, disease, beatings, medical experiments and suicide. Friedman Grosman’s sister was sent to a gas chamber after she caught typhus. More than 77 years later, her grief is still deep.

“I saw her there almost dead, and the rats were visiting her,” Friedman Grosman said through tears. “She was a beautiful girl. And nothing is left over of her.”

As the flood of Jewish prisoners arrived, the survivors among that first transport were “promoted” to “easier” jobs, such as moving corpses from the gas chambers to the crematoria, sorting through the piles of clothing, jewelry and luggage taken from the dead, and even typing in SS offices. These jobs came with extra rations that allowed them to survive the war. But surviving also meant watching in horror as their own family members were marched into the gas chambers.

Though Auschwitz was liberated on Jan. 27, 1945, most of the surviving girls weren’t there to see it. As Soviet troops approached, they were forced to go on death marches through feet of snow, then were moved to other concentration camps deep in Germany.

Friedman Grosman was sent to the overcrowded Ravensbrück, then to a smaller camp called Retzow. There it was clear to her the Nazis were losing the war. Guards frequently ran for shelter from bombing raids, at which point Friedman Grosman and the other prisoners would raid the kitchens for food. In the spring, on another march to yet another camp, she and 10 other girls fell behind as the sun was setting, when they passed a small shelter. They ran inside, laid on the flat on the ground, and hid for the rest of the night.

When the sun rose the next morning, they realized they were free - and that the shelter where they sought refuge was an apiary full of bees.

It took Friedman Grosman eight weeks to get back to Hummené. Incredibly, both her parents had survived, as had one of her neighbors, a young man named Ladislav Grosman. Friedman Grosman spent three years fighting tuberculosis at a hospital in Switzerland; she and Ladislav were married soon after her release.

They settled in Prague and had a son. Friedman Grosman went back to school for a biology degree, and her husband became a successful

Photo courtesy of Edith Friedman Grosman

Edith Friedman Grosman with two of her great-grandchildren in 2019.

writer. In the 1960s, they left communist Czechoslovakia for Israel; she followed her son to Toronto after her husband’s death in 1981.

Like many Holocaust survivors, particularly female survivors, Friedman Grosman didn’t talk about the horrors she experienced for a long time, and the significance of the first transport was largely forgotten.

“If you look at a lot of Holocaust timelines, they mention the date the first [Jewish] transport arrived, but they almost never say that it was all young women,” Macadam said.

Many female survivors struggled to have children because of the cruelties they were subjected to; plus, other survivors sometimes treated people with “low numbers” tattooed on their arms with suspicion, as though they couldn’t have survived that long without doing something unforgivable. Friedman Grosman’s number was 1,970.

But, Macadam said, as the women’s movement took hold in the 1970s, interest in women’s lives has grown over time. The Shoah Foundation has since found 22 women from the first transport who survived the Holocaust; Macadam has interviewed 20 of them; six are still living.

Nowadays, “Edith is a rock star in Slovakia. Everybody adores her,” when she returns to teach people about the Holocaust, Macadam said.

At her apartment in Toronto on Saturday, friends brought by so many dishes for Friedman Grosman that she worried she would have to throw food away. In between visits, she told The Post she had one message for the world: “Don’t hate. Because hate brings criminality and hate brings death. I saw it, I was there.”

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COLUMBIA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AUXILIARY SELECTS NEW OFFICERS

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The Columbia Memorial Hospital Auxiliary announced a new slate of officers to lead the volunteer group. Auxiliary members collectively contribute thousands of hours each year to assist CMH patients and raise critically needed funds for patient care initiatives. Pictured from left are Dee Marotta, treasurer; Debra Pulver, vice president; Marge Laurie, president; Mary Anuska, assistant treasurer; Madelyn Super, secretary; and Barbara DeLamater, corresponding secretary.

College Corner SUNY ONEONTA ATHENS — Calli Boeri of Athens was inducted into the SUNY Oneonta Chapter of Omicron Delta Kappa, a national leadership honor society, during a ceremony on December 9. Invitation to apply for membership is based on recommendation, junior or senior standing and an overall grade-point average of 3.0 or better. Boeri is studying Childhood Education (1-6) at SUNY Oneonta.

ONEONTA — A total of 1,539 SUNY Oneonta students earned Dean’s List honors for the fall 2019 semester.

Tayler Baldwin of Coxsackie, Calli Boeri of Athens, Nadia Boyea of Greenville, Lucas Bruce of Coxsackie, Autumn Doney of Palenville, Elise DuBois of Earlton, Danielle Fichtner of Prattsville, Kelley Hair of West Coxsackie, Danielle Mason of Catskill, Danielle Palmateer of Athens, Zachary Peterson of Coxsackie, Olivia Smith of Catskill, Lauryn Williams of Earlton, Eric Carmody of Saugerties, Abigail Macisaac of Saugerties, Ginger McMahon of Woodstock, Izabella Palange of Coeymans Hollow, Sienna Sasso of Saugerties, Amanda Sumner of Selkirk.

ONEONTA — A total of 240 SUNY Oneonta students earned Provost’s List honors for the fall 2019 semester.

Daniel Ball of Saugerties, Jessica Carlson of Selkirk, Melanie Reagan of Catskill.

THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT GREENVILLE — Julia Evola of Greenville has been named to the dean’s list for the fall 2019 semester the University

of Vermont in Burlington, Vt. Evola is an Anthropology major in the College of Arts and Sciences.

THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN CATSKILL — Lauren Casalino, of Catskill, a student in the Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences of the University of New Haven has been named to the Dean’s List for the fall, 2019.

SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE GREENVILLE — Cormac Tolan of Greenville has been named to the dean’s list for academic excellence for the fall 2019 term at Springfield College in Springfield, Mass.

Tolan is studying Psychology.

BUFFALO STATE KINGSTON — Clara Sensini of Kingston was named to the Buffalo State Fall 2019 Dean’s List. Sensini is majoring in Biology.

CLARKSON UNIVERSITY POTSDAM — The following local students have been named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2019 semester at Clarkson University: Faichal Iravena Ayeva of New Baltimore, Thomas H. Kirby of Athens, Robert Joshua Schneider of West Coxsackie, Courtney Marie Sherman of Catskill, Jonathan Patrick True of Leeds.

POTSDAM — The following local students have been named Presidential Scholars for the fall 2019 semester at Clarkson University: Allison A. Ryan of Shandaken, Rowan Thomas True of Leeds.

ALFRED STATE COLLEGE ALFRED — Dr. Kristin Poppo, provost at Alfred State

College, has announced the dean’s list of academically impressive students for fall 2019.

The following Greene County students were among those recognized: Joseph Piccolo, Athens; Jared Osborn, Catskill; Ethan Smythe, Greenville; Dante Savasta, Windham.

WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE SAUGERTIES — Daniel Caffrey of Saugerties has been named to the Dean’s List for academic excellence for the fall 2019 semester at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass.

LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY GREENVILLE — Madison Marcello of Greenville was placed on the Dean’s List for the Fall semester of 2019 at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tenn.

SIENA COLLEGE LOUDONVILLE — Siena College names students to the President’s List for the Fall 2019 semester.

Joshua Deyo of Catskill, Lucas Makely of Preston Hollow, Peyton Russell of East Durham.

COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY WEST COXSACKIE — Gavin Coleman of West Coxsackie has been named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2019 semester at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC. HAINES FALLS — Emily Thorpe of Haines Falls earned a Bachelor of Arts in communication from Coastal Carolina University on Dec. 17, 2019, during the fall commencement ceremony.

Mountain Top Progressives vote to endorse Michelle Hinchey TANNERSVILLE — Mountain Top Progressives (MTP) held a forum Jan. 20 to present the three Democratic primary candidates for New York state Senate District 46.

The two candidates present, Michelle Hinchey and Gary Greenberg, introduced themselves and presented their positions on topics relevant to the district, with a particular focus on local issues in Greene County.

Jeffrey Stark, the third candidate, was not present.

The forum was held at Villa Vosilla in Tannersville. Turnout was strong with approximately 50 attendees, mostly from the mountaintop.

Questions from the audience concerned many of the issues

relevant to the geographically diverse district. Issues discussed included: public education; spousal abuse; fracking; large scale incineration projects; broadband access; vaccinations of school age children; responsible economic development; and single payer healthcare. At the conclusion of the forum, an email with links to the resumes and backgrounds of the candidates went to the 350+ members of MTP, inviting them to vote to endorse one of the candidates. The membership overwhelmingly voted to endorse Michelle Hinchey for the seat.

One respondent said “Her intelligent, highly thoughtful and coherent response to the

questions last evening makes it difficult to consider any other candidate.”

Hinchey, the daughter of the late Maurice Hinchey (House of Representatives 1993-2013), is an experienced campaigner with broad knowledge of local, state and national issues.

MTP will be working towards her nomination on June 23, as well as for her election to the state Senate on Nov. 3.

She will be an effective, approachable, and long-term legislator, and we look forward to partnering with her to ensure a renewed prosperity for the mountain top, the county and the district, according to a statement from the organization.

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Explaining legalized marijuana and gun ownership Dear Warriors, A reader asked me to explain to people about the laws concerning legalized marijuana and gun ownership. T This is an excellent topic because even though the state, through laws such as the Compassionate Care Act, does not prohibit a patient using medical marijuana from possessing a gun, federal law may make you think twice before you decide to fill that prescription! I pulled invaluable information posted on FactCheck.org, one of several organizations working with Facebook to debunk misinformation shared on the social media network.

Since 1968, federal law has prohibited marijuana users from purchasing firearms.

Furthermore, in 2011 the U.S Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives “law “prohibits any person who is an “unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance from shipping, transporting, receiving or possessing firearms or ammunition.” It also states it is “unlawful for any person to sell or otherwise dispose of any firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such person is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance.”

The letter continues: “Therefore, any person who uses or is addicted to marijuana, regardless of whether

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by Federal law from possessing firearms or ammunition.”

The federal form, used by gun licensees, such as gun shop owners, asks the buyer if they are an “unlawful user or buyer of marijuana”. Under federal law you are considered an “unlawful user.”

Making false written statements on the application is a felony that can be punished with up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

In March 2018, the GAO noted, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions “issued a memo that directed all United States Attorneys to enhance prosecution of cases involving individuals who make false statements on the ATF Form 4473.”

One court challenge to

federal law and the ATF’s open letter, filed by a Nevada woman who was refused a firearm because of her medical marijuana registry card, was dismissed by a U.S. District Court. The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that ruling in 2016, finding that the policies did not violate her Second Amendment rights.

So in essence it is a choice — medical marijuana or firearms!

For the complete article and sources go to: https:// www.factcheck.org/2019/04/ viral-claim-blurs-marijuana-gun-policies/ Kleiman, Mark. Professor of public policy, NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management. Email to FactCheck.org.

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“Recreational Marijuana in Maine.” Maine State Legislature. Accessed 24 Apr 2019.

U.S. Government Accountability Office. “Few Individuals Denied Firearms Purchases Are Prosecuted and ATF Should Assess Use of Warning Notices in Lieu of Prosecutions.” September 2018.

“Winthrop Man Pleads Guilty to Making False Statements to a Federal Firearms Dealer.” Press release, U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Maine. 24 Sep 2018.

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Worldwide experts and students to lead Climate Action Summit OLIVEBRIDGE — Local, regional and international middle and high school students from more than 22 schools will congregate for a three-day immersion in climate literacy education: The Youth Empowerment and Sustainability Summit (YESS!), Feb. 6 through Feb. 8, at The Ashokan Center, 477 Beaverkill Road, Olivebridge.

Working alongside experts in climatology and biodiversity and a multicultural community of their peers, student teams will build leadership and ecological stewardship skills.

Each team will develop a Climate Action Plan to bring back to their school/community, using problem solving, design thinking, and collaboration to implement innovative, regional sustainable solutions.

The keynote speakers and presenters include individuals

with decades-long careers in the fields of climate and environmental sciences. Dr. James Hansen of Columbia University will inaugurate the conference with a talk on what has escalated to a present-day climate emergency. Dr. Jeffrey D. Sachs, economist and sustainable development leader, will join the summit by video chat with a message of student empowerment and the growing youth movement involving the climate crisis.

An impressive lineup of youth presenters and leading environmental organizations dedicated to sustainability and climate action will lead workshops at YESS! designed to empower leadership and support each school group’s action planning.

The Ashokan Center provides a niche for this generation

of climate activism, hosting the youth summit on its 385-acre campus and solar-powered facility.

YESS! will take place under the direction of Dan Shornstein, outreach/education coordinator at The Ashokan Center, and Dorna Schroeter, former coordinator of Putnam Northern Westchester BOCES’ Center for Environmental Education.

The summit is private, but a public community outreach talk by Dr. James Hansen will inaugurate the event, at 7 p.m.

Feb. 6 at the Kingston High School. For advance tickets to Dr. Hansen’s talk, more information on the Ashokan Center’s upcoming events, and details of Ashokan’s commitment to green energy and sustainable practices, visit ashokancenter. org.

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Airport passenger traffic continues record growth pattern at Albany International ALBANY — Passenger traffic at Albany International Airport continued a six-year pattern of growth during 2019. Enplanements during 2019 totaled 1,518,969, an increase of 3.6% over 2018, during which 1,466,706 passengers boarded at Albany.

“Business and leisure travelers in the Greater Capital Region continue to benefit from the Airport Authority’s successful effort to attract new airlines that have provided new non-stop destinations for our travelers,” said the Rev. Kenneth Doyle, chairman of the Albany County Airport Authority. “We believe that our existing carriers and new airlines will continue to view Upstate New York as an

opportunity for growth in the years to come.”

A good portion of the increase in enplanements was the result of two ultra lowfare carriers launching service at Albany International Airport. Allegiant Airlines and Frontier Airlines together accounted for over 136,000 passengers during 2019.

More than 56 million passengers have traveled through Albany International Airport since the new terminal opened in 1998. Florida continues to be the most popular destination among Albany travelers, with more than one out of four passengers traveling to airports in Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Orlando and Tampa.

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recently embarked on a $60 million program to upgrade the terminal with new terrazzo floors and escalators, improved restrooms, new way-finding signage, LED lighting, modern wall coverings and upgraded airline hold rooms. In addition, the Authority, with the assistance of a $22 million grant from Gov. Andrew Cuomo,is nearing completion of a new 1,000 space parking garage.

Four new concessions including The Albany Empire, Chick-fil-A, Burger King and Wolfgang Puck Pizza have been added to improve the customer experience. A fifth new concession, The Beer Union, is now under construction on Concourse-B.

Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome receives planning grant RHINEBECK — The Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome announces that it has received a $100,000 grant from the Disosway Foundation to fund a professional study for purposes of upgrading the Aerodrome’s museum, hangars, grounds and support spaces.

The study, which starts immediately, will produce a Comprehensive Master Plan to position the Aerodrome for future development and help make it into a premiere tourist destination in the Hudson Valley for visitors from around the world. The Master Plan will be followed by a capital campaign to fund implementation.

Aerodrome President, Michael DiGiacomio says, “This generous donation

comes at an important time.

We have been working on a long-range plan to better house, display, and fly our collection. Now, a respected consultant will be guiding us to take our initiatives to the next level.”

The LA Group, based in Saratoga Springs, will provide the Aerodrome with a Master Plan to improve the visitor experience, museum infrastructure and daily operations. The plan will examine the topography of the site, improve logistics, accessibility, address sustainability, and determine capital and ongoing costs. The LA Group has worked on similar projects with many organizations, including Olana State Historic Site, West Point

Military Academy, Arlington National Cemetery, New York State Olympic Development Authority, and Niagara Falls State Park.

The Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum/Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome is a 501 c 3 nonprofit Museum, chartered by the New York State Board of Regents, dedicated to preserving, restoring and flying aircraft of the Pioneer, WWI, and Golden Ages of aviation.

The Museum houses approximately 70 vintage aircraft, antique historic automobiles and artifacts spanning the period from dawn of flight through the “Golden Age” of Aviation, or 1939.

The Disosway Foundation, Inc. is a private foundation based in New York City.

The Paper Dragon opens in downtown Albany ALBANY — Significant development in downtown Albany has attracted new restaurateur Jeffrey Via, with a grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony for The Paper Dragon held Jan. 9. The Downtown Albany Business Improvement District (BID) was joined by Mayor Kathy Sheehan, Legislator Sam Fein, Assemblymember John McDonald III’s community liason Michael Saccoman, Via, partner Melissa Salamone, and community members in officially welcoming the new eatery to its 5 Clinton Square home.

Noting the $10 million Clinton Square DRI Award and $80 million Redburn portfolio investments as among the factors contributing heavily to the choice of location, The Paper Dragon opening follows a 20-plus year restaurant industry career for Via. With a background comprised of fine dining and molecular gastronomy, he sought, in opening his own restaurant, common ground between the simplicity of everyday food and the caliber experience associated with fine dining.

“As we have seen across downtown Albany, investment continues to spur additional investment, and the opening of The Paper Dragon is yet another example of that,” said Mayor Sheehan.

“We are excited to see entrepreneurs capitalizing on, and adding to, the incredible development happening here, and wish Jeffrey continued success.”

Contributed photo Pictured from left at the grand opening of The Paper Dragon are community liaison from Assemblymember John McDonald III’s office, Michael Saccoman; Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan; Jeffrey Via; Melissa Salamone; Downtown Albany Business Improvement District executive director Georgette Steffens; and Legislator Sam Fein.

opened six restaurants in as many states for others and, along with Salamone, ran the food and beverage program at the University of Miami.

His love for the industry began long before though, when Via started working at a pizza shop in his hometown of Lancaster, Penn. and never looked back. Salamone being native to the Capital District brought the pair to the area, with Via seeking to establish his culinary roots here by bringing together a confluence of his passion for Asian food and accessible fine dining.

Fusing the familiar with a new twist brought about a menu that includes Breakfast Sushi Rolls in Lox and Omlette varieties, which have been received with great enthusiasm, Via said. With

people Downtown on weekends, the eatery is serving up a Dim Sum Brunch each Saturday.

“I am so happy and honored to have a home Downtown and be part of the tremendous growth in this city.

The best parts have been having my son be a part of it and meeting so many of our neighbors and new friends,” said Via. “We’ve experienced an incredible amount of community support already, making this experience even more rewarding than we could have anticipated.”

“Downtown continues to draw residents and businesses thanks in part to the world-class culinary artistry available here, now enhanced by the opening of The Paper Dragon,” said Georgette Steffens, executive director of the

Whiteman Osterman & Hanna announces three new partners

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ALBANY — Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP, the Capital Region’s largest law firm, has announced three new partners: Christopher W. Meyer, Monica R. Skanes and Brian M. Wang.

Chris Meyer leads the firm’s Privacy, Cybersecurity and Information Management practice, helping clients protect critical business and consumer information.

He also represents clients in commercial litigation, corporate transactions, and regulatory compliance matters. He represents clients in the financial services, health care, education, information technology, digital marketing, website development, mobile application, and manufacturing industries.

Meyer also volunteers as the Chair of the Albany KnowledgeNet Chapter of the International Association of Privacy Professionals and Vice Chair

of the Clifton Park-Halfmoon Emergency Corps.

Monica Skanes joined Whiteman Osterman & Hanna in 2011. She is a member of the Firm’s Education, Labor and Employment, and Litigation practice groups. She represents both public and private employers, including schools and colleges, on a wide range of education and employment law issues. She regularly counsels employers to help avoid legal issues, conducts complex and sensitive student and employee investigations, and defends employers in discrimination actions and other complex litigation. She has served as the Secretary of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the New York State Bar Association. She frequently shares her expertise by presenting on education and employment topics, including First Amendment issues,

the Fair Labor Standards Act, and Paid Family Leave.

Brian Wang joined Whiteman Osterman & Hanna in 2018. He focuses his practice on all aspects of immigration law, including family- and employment-based immigration, I-9 compliance and worksite enforcement, nonimmigrant employment and investor visas, asylum and humanitarian relief, naturalization, inadmissibility waivers, and removal defense. He consults with criminal defense attorneys on the immigration consequences of criminal convictions and advises on crafting plea agreements to avoid deportation. He has developed an expertise in citizenship matters, including military naturalization, expeditious naturalization, and complex acquired/derivative citizenship claims.

USMCA paves way for American small business NEW YORK — The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which includes specific protections for smalland medium-sized businesses, received Senate approval and will go to the White House for President Trump’s signature. The Agreement had passed the U.S. House of Representatives with bipartisan 385-41 vote on Dec. 19, 2019. The U.S. Senate approved the Agreement Jan. 16 by a 90-10 vote. The U.S. will be the second country to ratify the USMCA (Mexico already has); Canada will need to ratify the Agreement as well for it to take effect.

“Today’s passage of USMCA is a win for American small businesses and the nation’s economy,” U.S. Small Business Administration Administrator Jovita Carranza said. “USMCA includes the first-ever chapter dedicated to small business and will enforce new intellectual property provisions, bolster innovation, and support small businesses engaging in digital trade. Additionally, USMCA removes burdensome regulations, reduces duplicative red tape, and lowers costs that will help the 30 million U.S. small businesses that employ half the privatesector workforce and create 2/3 of all new jobs, to better compete globally. President Trump continues to follow through on his commitment to modernize and implement free and fair-trade agreements that greatly benefit our nation. This is another

example of the President’s insight into our economy and his unwavering support of U.S. small businesses.”

The USMCA’s dedicated Small and Medium Enterprise chapter, which is a first for any U.S. trade agreement establishes a committee on SME issues comprised of government officials from each country. Additional provisions simplify customs and trade rules and reduce barriers and costs small businesses have faced. The USMCA specifically: Cuts red tape at the border and encourages small business consideration when regulations are in development and implemented; Supports the 21st century economy with strong digital trade detail supporting internet-enabled small businesses and ecommerce exports; Promotes small business participation in government procurement, offering another way to grow their customer base and expand; Protects innovators’ intellectual property; and Eliminates local presence requirements for cross-border service providers, benefitting small businesses by removing the burden of opening a foreign office to do business.

“President Trump’s priority has always been to put America first; that’s what the USMCA does, adding strong protections specific to small businesses. Entrepreneurs are creating record amount of jobs; they represent over 99% of U.S. businesses. The USMCA levels the playing

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field for small businesses and unlock opportunities for those that have yet to tap foreign markets,” stated SBA Atlantic Regional Administrator Steve Bulger. “This signature piece of legislation will support thousands of new jobs across the country, especially with exporters in our region.”

Small businesses represent approximately 98% of all exporting firms nationally, with roughly 82,000 small businesses exporting to Canada and 53,000 exporting to Mexico. In the Atlantic Region, New York State of the almost 34,400 small business exporters, a total of $20.3 billion to Canada and Mexico in 2018. In New Jersey, just over 18,605 exporters of 20,000 qualified as small firms, exporting a total of $10 billion to Mexico and Canada. Puerto Rico has 43,200 small firms with $73.8 billion in total exports; of that total, $1.4 billion were exported to Canada and Mexico in 2018.

With two-thirds of the world’s purchasing power in foreign countries, expanding markets through trade is one strategy for small businesses to generate and sustain business and economic growth.

In FY19, the SBA helped approximately 900 small businesses that export by backing more than a total of $1 billion in loans to them. With SBA’s assistance, small businesses can more easily find their next customers in Canada and Mexico and every corner of the world.

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Global stock markets shudder as coronavirus spreads Rachel Siegel The Washington Post

Global markets took a sharp downturn on Monday as investors grew increasingly anxious about the swift spread of the coronavirus beyond China.

The Dow plunged 450 points, or about 1.5%. Standard & Poor 500 and Nasdaq futures were also down significantly, 1.5% and 2%, respectively.

“Stock markets are selling off this morning on fears that the coronavirus might be harder to contain than previous viral outbreaks,” said Ed Yardeni,

president of Yardeni Research. “If the current outbreak turns into a pandemic that significantly disrupts global commerce, the impact would be bad news for the global economy and corporate earnings.”

Even as China has moved to sequester its residents during one of the year’s busiest travel seasons - Beijing has extended the quarantine to more than 50 million people - the mayor whose city, Wuhan, is the epicenter of the outbreak said 5 million people had already managed to leave.

So far, the coronavirus has infected at least 2,800 people in China and killed

81. Health officials say the virus has the potential to be more deadly than the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak, which killed nearly 800 people and infected more than 8,000.

Separate from public health concerns, the economic impact of coronavirus “will be significant,” wrote Michael Farr, president of Farr, Miller & Washington, a D.C. investment firm, in an analyst note. Travel is Asia has already slowed dramatically. And there’s concern that supply chains could be disrupted if, for example, the delivery of auto parts or manufacturing grind to a halt.

“In the global economic fabric, China will cause a measurable slowdown,” Farr said, cautioning that it’s still too early to grasp the virus’ precise impact on global GDP. There have been five confirmed cases in the United States: two in California and one each in Washington state, Arizona and Illinois. Infections have also been confirmed in Canada, France, South Korea, Japan, Nepal, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam and Taiwan.

Brad McMillan, chief investment officer at Commonwealth Financial Network, wrote in an analyst note that SARS hit growth in China hard before

passing relatively quickly. Most of the damage came from consumers staying in and not spending, so growth picked up once shoppers’ routines returned to normal.

But even while China’s economy, which depends heavily on consumer spending, could suffer, the U.S. is likely to avoid a major blow.

“Over the course of a year, SARS was a nonissue for U.S. investors,” McMillan wrote. “Even if this new disease proves to be much worse than it looks at the moment, here in the U.S. the damage will be limited - and should pass quickly.”

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now Greene County.”

People USA is a nonprofit organization that provides people living with mental health or substance abuse issues with peer services and behavioral health care, according to its website.

The project has received preliminary approval from state Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services. It is also touted as part of an effort by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to combat the opioid crisis in New York state, said attorney Paul Freeman, who is working on the project on behalf of People USA. If the proper approvals are in place, the center would open within 9 to 12 months, Miccio said Monday.

Care at the facility will be partially funded by the state and will be paid for by the patient’s insurance, Miccio said.

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A mock drawing of the proposed 10,000 square foot People USA detox center planned for the corner of Merle Avenue and Route 66 in Greenport.

part by OASAS and state Dormitory Authority of the State of New York Miccio said.

“It is a volunteer detox,” Miccio said. “Patients do not have to be in police custody and have to do mandated treatment. They can call us ahead and let us know what they are looking for.”

Patients will have a plan of

care and a full health assessment, Miccio said. Although it is not a walk-in, the facility does not plan to turn anyone away seeking help, he said.

Freeman said there have been 26 overdose deaths in the community in the past 3 years, according to the meeting minutes.

Freeman said the new

facility is designed to assist addicts who voluntarily choose to enter a medically supervised treatment program and proceed ultimately into rehabilitation, according to the minutes.

Patients typically will stay at the facility anywhere from 1 day to 7 days, with most patients staying an average of

4 days. Nurses will staff the facility 24 hours a day, and a medical doctor will be at the facility during the day and on call during the evening hours.

The staff will help the patients through the withdrawal process and entering a rehabilitation facility.

Miccio told the board in October that People USA would

pick the patient up and that they coordinate with the hospital to get the patients to their facility, according to meeting minutes.

Miccio said the percentage of patients who leave the facilities before completing their treatment is low, about 2%, according to the minutes.

Visitation is allowed but patients generally do not see visitors at this type of facility, Miccio said. About 24 parking spots are proposed around the building, with four Americans with Disabilities Act accessible spots.

No smoking would be allowed on the grounds and loitering will not be permitted, according to the meeting minutes. There are plans for planting meadow grass and potentially some trees around the facility to create privacy, according to the minutes.

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

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modern system on the bridge and the original bell lacked a striker, so it could not ring, Griffin said.

“It stopped working and the company is long out of business,” Griffin said.

For years, Griffin asked the Bridge Authority to look into restoring the bell.

“This project has been a labor of love for Marc Griffin, our assistant bridge foreman at the Rip Van Winkle,” according to the Bridge Authority. “You’ll often find that our staff takes great pride in our bridges and look for ways to honor their history. For about 18 years, Marc has been working to make the bell accessible to the public and has helped make it a mini-attraction when people come to the park area next to the bridge’s Administration building.”

Acting Bridge Authority Executive Director Tara Sullivan gave Griffin the OK to explore the cost of the project.

The cost of the project was about $12,890, according to the Bridge Authority.

Historic Bridges of the Hudson Valley funded $8,000 of the project, with the remainder picked up by the Bridge Authority.

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“From what we can tell, this is the highest we’ve ever had,” Friedman said. “We have a very strong economy in Greene County. Sales tax revenue is at a record high and exceeded last year’s budget projections.”

Many new businesses have come into the area, Friedman said.

“We are in a healthy economic climate,” he said. “We are doing better than a lot of upstate counties, especially rural counties.”

In addition to businesses, hotels are on the rise, Greene County Legislature Chairman Patrick Linger, R-New Baltimore, said last week.

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Framework surrounds the restored historic fog bell at the Rip Van Winkle Bridge approach in Catskill. A graphic history of the bell can be seen at the base.

Historic Bridges of the Hudson Valley Director Kathryn Burke said she was happy to have been a part of the project.

“One of the most endearing things to me about the New York State Bridge Authority is that the ‘employees,’ and I use quotes on that, because the endearing thing is, they are not just employees,” Burke said. “Most of the people at the Bridge Authority, presently and in the past, take great pride in their bridges. Marc is a great example of that pride.

For years he’s seen the bell, a symbol of the Rip Van Winkle Bridge, 85 years old this July 2, and desired to give it a special place to be displayed. I know that it won’t be long before people in Catskill and drivers

crossing the bridge will be listening for the bell as they pass at the intended ringing time.”

Julie Truncali, the Bridge Authority’s engineering summer intern, designed a new structure to house the bell and three maintenance staff from the Mid-Hudson Bridge fabricated it, according to the Bridge Authority.

Griffin built a cover for the structure, which eventually will be wrapped in copper. The Verdin Company was hired to refurbish the bell and provide a new striker, according to the Bridge Authority.

The project will be completed by the end of February and the historic bell will be rung three times per day at 8 a.m., noon and 6 p.m.

unprecedented, Linger said.

Two are in Coxsackie, one is on Main Street in Catskill, one is at the Catskill Golf Course and one is at the former site of the Quality Inn near Thruway Exit 21 in Catskill.

Aspiring businesses can apply for loans from the county, such as the state Community Development Block Grant Program, which is administered by the county’s Local Development Corporation.

One of the requirements of receiving these loans is to establish a job-creation program.

“Our biggest impediment is the labor force,” Heck said.

“Our employers are seeking more people, which is a good thing.”

Development at the Greene County Industrial Development Agency’s properties near Exit 21 will bring in additional jobs, Heck said, such as the new medical building recently

announced by Columbia Memorial Hospital.

“This will bring a large number of good-paying jobs to the community,” Heck said. “The future is bright for us.”

Overall, jobs in the state increased at rate of 1.1% in the last year, Columbia County at 0% and the Albany-Schenectady-Troy Metro Area at 0.4%, according to the report.

The state’s unemployment remains stable at 4%, according to the report.

“Between 2018 and 2019, the annual jobless rate in New York state declined by 0.1 percentage points and the number of unemployed New Yorkers dropped by more than 14,000,” according to the report.

Unemployment is at a historic low in Greene County, Friedman said.

“The county is operating near full employment,” he said.

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Kobe Bryant achieved so much and still had so much left to do Jerry Brewer The Washington Post

It’s most poignant that Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter. During his prodigious basketball career, that flying vehicle became a symbol of his persistent greatness and the urgency he always felt.

He didn’t have much time for traffic or any other limitations of road travel. He needed to be faster and more efficient.

He needed to go higher.

And he needed it now, now, now. Although longevity played a major role in cementing his legend, Bryant lasted 20 seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers one restless day at a time. And in a little more than three years since his retirement, he had transitioned to storyteller and built a promising entertainment company, Granity Studios, with the same pressing desire to beat the clock.

On Sunday, as the shocking news of his death turned a hopeful new year somber, the tragedy made his rush understandable, sadly.

He couldn’t have known he would get only 41 years as Kobe Bryant, the mesmerizing basketball superstar and enigmatic cultural icon. But he seemed to understand the fleeting nature of his fame - of his life - and he managed to accomplish more than almost anyone could.

Yet his story still feels disturbingly incomplete, and that’s why so many are taking his death so hard. Greater celebrities have left this world even younger, but there’s something especially jarring about losing Bryant.

It’s the combination of three things: his exceptional and unforgettable body of work, the feeling that we were still just getting to know him and the hope that, without all the basketball superpowers and ego, he was about to become much greater in retirement than he was on the court.

We mourn Bryant and remember all he did, but the great tragedy is what he wasn’t able to finish.

He was chasing more, as a media and entertainment mogul and as a man. In more than two decades in the spotlight, Bryant had gone from cocky 18-year-old to universally respected champion to flawless endorser.

He had gone from defendant in a sexual assault case to reinvented Black Mamba to leave-it-allon-the-court legend who scored 60 points in his final game. It might be an

unprecedented career arc for a sports figure: so perfect, then so flawed, then so transcendent.

But for all that we knew about Bryant, we still didn’t really know him.

He was starting to open up. He was evolving, it seemed. And though he would never admit it, he was determined to try to make amends for being accused of sexual assault nearly 17 years ago. The charges were ultimately dropped, and Bryant and his accuser later reached a settlement in a civil case. We will never know the absolute truth about what happened that July 2003 night in Colorado, but it branded Bryant as much darker than perceived, and he knew it.

He created the Black Mamba persona because of it, and even though he rebuilt his reputation and enjoyed 13 more years in the NBA after the incident, he couldn’t expunge that part of his story. So, typical Bryant, he tried to outwork even his shame. As a businessman, he hired and empowered women. He tried to become a better husband. He and his wife, Vanessa, had four daughters.

Bryant became a huge advocate for women’s basketball, partly because he wanted role models for his hoopsobsessed girls. His genuine love for the women’s game and appreciation of its stars were going to mean much as the WNBA transformed its pay structure and made an increased push for greater fan support. It was so heartbreaking that Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, were among those who died in the helicopter crash while en route to her AAU basketball game Sunday morning. Their lives ended on a journey to a game that bonds the entire family.

As an humanitarian, there was more Bryant wanted to do through his foundation. For so long, he was allowed to care mostly about himself, and he took advantage of it, becoming the greatest shooting guard not named Michael Jordan that the game has ever seen. Bryant’s career essentially started in the post-Jordan era, and while the obsession with MJ overtook the game and burdened many great players, Bryant embraced the comparisons.

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Dayquan Griffin scored his 1,000th career point in Hudson’s game against Catskill on Sunday at Columbia-Greene Community College.

Pictred are (from left): Hudson assistant coach Tyrone Hedgepeth, Hudson head coach Shawn Briscoe, Griffin and Hudson JV coach and the school’s all-time leading scorer Isiah Heard.

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HUDSON — Hudson’s Dayquan Griffin scored his 1,000th career point, but Catskill was able to post a 77-67 Patroon Conference boys basketball victory over the Bluehawks at Sunday’s Coaches vs.

Cancer event at Columbia-Greene Community College.

The game was close throughout, with Hudson leading 21-18 and 37-35 at the end of the first quarters. Catskill seized the lead, 55-54, by the end of the third stanza, then put the game away with a 2213 scoring advantage in the final quarter.

Griffin was outstanding in defeat.

Needing 15 points to reach the 1,000-career point milestone, he achieved that

with 2:32 remaining in the first half and finished with 29 points. He becomes the first Hudson player to reach 1,000 points in his career since current Hudson junior varsity coach Isiah Heard accomplished the feat 18 years earlier.

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By Tim Martin

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HUDSON — Hudson withstood a gallant effort by Catskill to post a 52-41 Patroon Conference girls basketball victory in Sunday’s Coaches vs. Cancer event at Columbia-Greene Community College.

Catskill jumped out to a 14-5 lead by the end of the opening stanza, but Hudson went up 24-21 at halftime and led 35-31 after three quarters. The Bluehawks went on an 8-0 run in the final quarter and Catskill, beset by foul trouble, couldn’t catch up.

Deja Beauford scored 28 points to lead Hudson. Shayna Coppersmith contributed seven and Katie Jepsen had six.

Janay Brantley had a big game in defeat, pouring in 26 points and grabbing 15 rebounds.

CATSKILL (41): Brantley 6-10-26, Konsul 1-4-6, Shook 1-0-3, Salierno 1-0-2, Leipman 1-1-4. Totals 10-15-41.

3-pointers: Brantley 4,

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Catskill’s Amaia Sisto (13) drives against Hudson’s Abby Jepsen during Sunday’s Coaches vs. Cancer game at Columbia-Greene Community College.

Shook, Leipman.

HUDSON (52): K. Jepsen 1-46, Jones 1-0-3, Coppersmith

3-1-7, Beauford 11-6-28, Johnson 0-2-2, McDonald 0-1-1, Alert 2-0-5. Totals 18-14-52.

Cairo-Durham 59, Greenville 23 HUDSON — Arianna Myers’ 27 points highlighted Cairo-Durham’s 59-23 victory over Greenville in Saturday’s Coaches vs. Cancer event at Columbia-Greene Community College.

McKayla Mudge added 14 points for Cairo-Durham, which held quartely leads of 175, 34-14 and 53-16.

Caitlyn Silk’s eight pointed topped Greenville.

GREENVILLE (23): Krasney 1-1-3, Duncan 0-0-0, Misuraca 3-0-6, Silk 3-0-8, Trostle 3-0-6.

Totals 10-1-23.

3-pointers: Silk 2.

CAIRO-DURHAM (59): Bruck 1-0-2, Colarusso 1-0-2, Ivery 2-0-4, James 2-1-5, Mudge 3-6-14, Myers 12-1-27, Wolcott 2-1-5. Totals 23-9-59.

3-pointers: Myers 3, Mudge 2.

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Kobe Bryant, a tireless competitor who became a global sports icon, dies at 41 Kent Babb The Washington Post

Kobe Bryant, a five-time National Basketball Association champion and global sports icon who retired in 2016 before adding an Academy Award to his considerable trophy case two years later, died Sunday in a helicopter crash northwest of Los Angeles. He was 41.

The aircraft, which also carried Bryant’s 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others, crashed and burst into flames near Calabasas, California, late

Sunday morning. There were no survivors. Bryant, whose home and post-NBA film and publishing offices were in the Orange County suburbs of southern Los Angeles, traveled frequently via helicopter.

Bryant’s wife, Vanessa, and three other daughters were not aboard the aircraft, which was reportedly on the way to a youth basketball tournament in which Gianna, known as Gigi, would be playing.

The incident sent shock waves throughout the sports and pop culture worlds, and several NBA teams took

24- and eight-second violations during Sunday’s games to commemorate Bryant’s jersey numbers with the Los Angeles Lakers.

“Words can’t describe the pain I’m feeling,” former NBA superstar Michael Jordan said in a statement Sunday afternoon. “I loved Kobe - he was like a little brother to me. We used to talk often, and I will miss those conversations very much.

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Zion Williamson had his first double-double as an NBA player, and the New Orleans Pelicans won for the first time with him in the lineup, 123-108 over the visiting Boston Celtics on Sunday.

Williams, the top pick in the 2019 NBA draft, had 21 points and 11 rebounds in his third game after preseason knee surgery.

Jrue Holiday scored a team-high 25 points, and Derrick Favors added 15 points and 10 rebounds. Lonzo Ball added a career-high 15 assists to go with eight points.

All-Star guard Kemba Walker led the Celtics with 35 points, Gordon Hayward scored 23, and Jaylen Brown, returning from a twogame absence due to an ankle injury, added 20.

Before the singing of the national anthem, the Pelicans held a 24-second moment of silence in honor of former Lakers star Kobe Bryant, who died along with one of his daughters, Gianna, and seven others in a helicopter crash near Los Angeles on Sunday morning.

When the game began, the teams followed the lead of the Spurs and Raptors earlier in the day by dribbling out the shot clock in Bryant’s honor on their first possessions.

Knicks 110, Nets 97 Reggie Bullock fueled a decisive thirdquarter run by hitting back-to-back 3-pointers – including the basket that gave New York the lead for good – in its victory against visiting Brooklyn.

Julius Randle had 22 points and 15 rebounds as the Knicks won for just the third time in 13 games. Marcus Morris Sr. scored 21 points, Taj Gibson scored 11 points and Bullock added 10 points. Mitchell Robinson (12 points) and Frank Ntilikina (11 points) each scored double digits off the bench.

Spencer Dinwiddle scored 23 points for the Nets, who have lost six of seven and are 3-14 since Christmas. Taurean Prince had 14 points while Rodions Kurucs scored 12 points. Joe Harris and Garrett Temple added 11 points apiece.

Trail Blazers 139, Pacers 129 Damian Lillard continued his scoring spree with 50 points, matched his season high of 13 assists and grabbed six rebounds to lead Portland past visiting Indiana.

Lillard made 14 of 23 shots from the field – including 8 of 12 from 3-point range – to become the first player in franchise history

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New Orleans Pelicans forward Zion Williamson (1) dunks over Boston Celtics guard Jaylen Brown (7) during Sunday’s game at the Smoothie King Center.

to record three straight efforts of 40 points or more. CJ McCollum scored 28 points and made six 3-pointers for the Trail Blazers after missing the previous three games because of an ankle injury.

Jeremy Lamb scored 28 points and Domantas Sabonis had 27 points, 14 rebounds and a career-best 11 assists for the Pacers, who lost for just the second time in their past nine games. Indiana dropped its 11th straight game at Portland.

Hawks 152, Wizards 133 Trae Young responded in an emotional way to the reported death of Kobe Bryant by producing 45 points and 14 assists to help Atlanta defeat visiting Washington Sunday.

Young began the game wearing No. 8, Bryant’s original jersey number, before changing into his usual No. 11. Young wore Bryant’s No. 24 on the back of his shoes.

It was the eighth time this season Young has scored 40-plus points. He was 13 of 24 from the floor, 13 of 16 from the line and had six rebounds. Five other players scored in double figures: De’Andre Hunter with 25, Kevin Huerter with 18, John Collins with 16, Bruno Fernando with 14 and Cam Reddish with 13. Fernando had 12 rebounds.

Bradley Beal had 40 points and six assists for Washington, which had six other players score in double figures. Troy Brown Jr. finished with 19 points.

Clippers 112, Magic 97 Kawhi Leonard scored 31 points and grabbed 14 rebounds, and Landry Shamet and Montrezl Harrell added 19 points each as Los Angeles used a third-quarter charge to notch the road victory.

Lou Williams scored 15 points as the Clippers improved to 4-1 on their season-long six

game road trip. Leonard extended his careerlong streak of 30-point games to eight.

Michael Carter-Williams scored 15 points as the Magic lost their third consecutive game and fell for the fifth time in their past six games. Orlando lost twice to the Clippers during that stretch, falling 122-95 at Los Angeles on Dec. 16.

Nuggets 117, Rockets 110 Nikola Jokic had 24 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists, Jerami Grant scored a seasonhigh 25 points and host Denver beat shorthanded Houston.

Michael Porter Jr. and Monte Morris scored 17 points each, Will Barton had 11 and Malik Beasley 10 for Denver.

The Rockets played without NBA leading scorer James Harden due to a left thigh contusion that head coach Mike D’Antoni said might keep him out of Monday’s game at Utah.

Raptors 110, Spurs 106 Pascal Siakam scored 35 points, 30 of them in a dominating first half, and Fred VanVleet hit the decisive 3-pointer in the final minute as visiting Toronto earned a victory over San Antonio.

It was Toronto’s seventh straight win, tying its season best. The last team to beat the Raptors was San Antonio, which defeated the Raptors 105-104 in Toronto on Jan. 12.

Toronto led by 19 points in the first quarter, by a dozen at halftime but by just a point heading into the final period. The Spurs then scored 12 of the first 15 points of the period to take an eight-point advantage before the Raptors answered with a 14-0 run.

Grizzlies 114, Suns 109 Ja Morant scored 23 points to lead three Memphis players scoring 20-plus and the host Grizzlies held off Phoenix.

On a day with news of NBA legend Kobe Bryant’s death, Sunday’s game opened with Memphis taking a 24-second shot-clock violation. Phoenix reciprocated with an eightsecond backcourt violation. The gestures recognized Bryant’s two professional jersey numbers, 8 and 24.

Following the somber tribute, Memphis jumped ahead 30-18 after the first quarter.

Morant, Jaren Jackson Jr. and Dillon Brooks carried much of the scoring load from the outset, and both Jackson and Brooks finished with 20 points.

Barty, Federer, Djokovic into Australian Open quarters, Gauff out Chiara Palazzo DPA

MELBOURNE, Australia — World number one and 2019 Roland Garros champion Ash Barty got revenge for last year’s Wimbledon defeat by Alison Riske with a 6-3, 1-6, 6-4 win over the American to reach the quarter-finals of the Melbourne major on Sunday, Australia Day. The 23-year-old will meet fellow former Grand Slam winner Petra Kvitova in the quarters for a second straight year after the Czech went past Greek rising star Maria Sakkari 6-7 (4-7), 6-3, 6-2.

In the men’s draw, defending champion Novak Djokovic dismissed Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 to set up a quarter-final against Canada’s Milos Raonic after he defeated 2014 US champion Marin Cilic 6-4, 6-3, 7-5 in a clash of former world number threes.

In the last match of the day, third seed Roger Federer defeated world number 67 Marton Fucsovics 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 to make the quarterfinals of the Australian Open for a record 15th time.

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Jabeur defeated China’s Wang Qiang, who two days earlier sent Serena Williams packing, 7-6 (7-4), 6-1 to become the first Arab woman to reach a Grand Slam quarter-final.

The Tunisian will next verse American Sofia Kenin after she ended the dream run of compatriot Coco Gauff with a 6-7 (5-7), 6-3, 6-0 rout.

Fellow American Tennys Sandgren followed Kenin and Gauff at Melbourne Arena to defeat 12th seed Fabio Fognini of Italy 7-6 (7-5), 7-5, 6-7 (2-7), 6-4 in a contest filled with drama.

In his second Melbourne quarter-final Sandgren will meet Federer, who dropped a set against Hungary’s Fucsovics before righting the boat and grabbing his 101th win at the Australian Open in much smoother fashion than his century — a four-hour five-set marathon against John Millman.

“The morning after Johnny’s match, and this morning, I lay in bed for like an hour and I was like ‘when are we gonna stand up? One, two, three ... “ Federer told John McEnroe after the match, which featured some of his trademark drop and passing shots.

Earlier on Barty, who as a newly crowned Roland Garros champion in 2019 was upset by Riske at Wimbledon, had a tough match against the American in a windy Rod Laver.

After Barty took the opener Riske went two breaks up in the second — after Barty hit her 12th unforced error of the period — and served the set out to force a decider.

In the third, the two again exchanged breaks before Barty broke Riske’s serve one more time on 5-4 to continue her campaign to become the first Australian woman to win the singles home slam since 1978.

Next up will be Kvitova, who last year beat Barty in the quarters on the way to the final. Barty has beaten the Czech all three times she has met her since.

“I love Petra but let’s hope she doesn’t break my heart on Tuesday night, or Tuesday ... I’m just excited that I get another opportunity in a quarter-final of a Grand Slam, you don’t get those every week so I’m really excited,” the Australian star said.

Seventh seed Kvitova came back from a set and a break down to clip the wings of the 24-year-old Sakkari

— in her fist round-of-16 appearance at a slam — who was supported by a raucous Greek contingent throughout the contest at Rod Laver Arena.

Both players had their chances to take the opener — which was played as an aerobatic team conducted an aerial display overhead in support of Australia Day celebrations — with two breaks of serve a piece.

The second set also saw six breaks of serve, with 2019 Melbourne runner-up Kvitova taking four to force a decider.

In the end, Kvitova’s power and experience got the edge over the young Greek, who dropped her serve in the first game of the third and never recovered.

Two-times Wimbledon champion Kvitova last year reached the Melbourne final in her best result since returning in mid-2017 from a career-threatening hand injury.

At Rod Laver Arena, seven-time Melbourne champion Djokovic only dropped one service game against Argentina’s Schwartzman, defeating him in just over two hours, his third straight sets win in a row.

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“It feels great. I had a fantastic couple of matches in a row ... Today was a good test because Diego was in form, he hasn’t dropped a set in three rounds ... All in all, it was a very solid performance,” the defending champion said.

Djokovic’s next opponent, Raonic, only faced four break points — none of which were converted in part helped by an unreal 35 aces — to defeat Cilic and reach his fifth Melbourne quarter final.

The big-serving Canadian has a 0-9 record against the second seed.

Teenage sensation Gauff dropped her serve early in the first and second set against 21-year-old Kenin. She managed to tie things up and win the tiebreaker in the first but could not pull off the comeback in the second.

She then dropped all of her service games in the third, opening the door for 14th seed Kenin, who last year defeated world number one Ash Barty in Toronto, to reach her first quarter-final at a slam.

While Gauff’s singles run in Melbourne is over, she is still competing in the doubles with friend Catherine McNally.

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Bryant’s legacy will live long after his death Dan Woike and Broderick Turner Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Eighty-one points in his prime and 60 on his way into retirement. Five championships with the Los Angeles Lakers, 18 All-Star appearances representing them, 15 AllNBA honors, two jerseys hanging in the Staples Center rafters — No. 8 and No. 24 And the number that will haunt Los Angeles and the world — only 41 years old.

A future Hall of Famer, an all-time great, the second-best shooting guard ever and the closest thing to Michael Jordan people have seen, Kobe Bryant died Sunday morning, one of nine who perished in a helicopter crash in Calabasas.

The loss was mourned in all corners of the world. Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama both tweeted tributes. NFL greats Tom Brady and Peyton Manning expressed their sadness. Paris Saint-Germain soccer star Neymar scored a goal off a penalty kick and held up two fingers on his right hand and four on his left.

“Words can’t describe the pain I’m feeling,” Jordan said in a statement. “I loved Kobe — he was like a little brother to me. We used to talk often, and I will miss those conversations very much. He was a fierce competitor, one of the greats of the game and a creative force.”

While not without his on- and off-court controversies, Bryant’s combination of skill, hard work and relentless pursuit of winning resonated in Los Angeles and with basketball fans worldwide. His willingness to sprint toward big moments and big shots endeared him to fans and sometimes enraged his critics. But when things mattered most, you could count on Bryant always being a part of it.

His death sent a wave of grief through the basketball world Sunday, with eight games across the NBA played while teams and players offered tributes and couldn’t contain their emotions.

Veteran center and Angeleno Tyson Chandler, now a backup center on the Rockets, stared onto the court early in Houston’s game against Denver and shook his head in disbelief. Tears welled in the eyes of his teammates, including Austin Rivers, who idolized Bryant’s game.

Toronto players embraced their former teammate, San Antonio guard DeMar DeRozan, who grew up in Los Angeles trying his best to mimic every Bryant mannerism. DeRozan’s coach, Gregg Popovich, consoled him before the game began with a tribute — both teams taking 24-second violations.

“Everything I learned came from Kobe. Everything,” DeRozan told reporters. “Take Kobe away, I wouldn’t be here. I wouldn’t have love. I wouldn’t have the passion, the drive.”

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Fans gather near a memorial for Kobe Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash, on Sunday, at Staples Center in Los Angeles, Calif. (Dania Maxwell/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

After LeBron James passed Bryant for No. 3 on the NBA’s all-time scoring list on Saturday night, Lakers teammate Kentavious CaldwellPope was asked about his favorite Bryant performance, and without hesitation he mentioned the 81-point game.

Seven years after that performance, while recovering from a knee fracture, Bryant rewatched that game from Jan. 22, 2006, and tweeted along, providing a type of director’s commentary. He would do the same in retirement on an ESPN show called “Detail.”

“Watching the game now, the easy shots I missed, I could of had 100 pts!” Bryant tweeted in 2013, ending his comments with, “I felt like I was looking at a Salvador Dali painting masterpiece.”

It’s still the second-highest-scoring game in NBA history.

Bryant also is revered as a winner and, ironically, a lot of that reverence began with a highprofile loss.

During his first trip to the playoffs as a rookie, Bryant tried to extend a first-round series with the Utah Jazz in the final seconds of regulation.

Like he would so many times in his career, he pushed into the mid-range, stopped and rose to make the big shot — except this one fell way short and the Lakers eventually lost in overtime.

That airball, though, became part of Bryant’s legacy, a moment when he was still a teenager that helped build the framework of what was to come.

“There will never be another Kobe, man. He

had the confidence and the swagger even at 17 and 18,” Magic Johnson remembered Sunday.

“When he missed that shot that was an airball in Utah and he knew he was coming back. That says a lot about that dude. He was like, ‘OK, I’ll be back. Don’t worry about me. I’ll take it again.’ This dude here is a different cat. But he loved being a Laker, that’s one thing he always loved. He and I shared that.”

Bryant earned accolades for his toughness — both physical and mental.

His “Mamba Mentality” slogan was as much about Bryant’s ability to block out immeasurable pain as it was anything else.

In the 2000 NBA Finals, Bryant missed most of Game 2 and all of Game 3 because of a sore ankle only to bail out the Lakers with 47 minutes of grinding play that they desperately needed with Shaquille O’Neal fouling out. Bryant sealed the game with three baskets in the clutch against the Indiana Pacers to help erase any memories from the Utah failure.

Then near the end of the 2012-13 season, Bryant ruptured an Achilles tendon, limped off the court and returned to make two free throws before exiting. You can still hear fans at Staples Center murmur, “Well, Kobe made two without an Achilles” when a Laker misses a pair of free throws.

His tenure with the Lakers was far from perfect. He wasn’t always a popular teammate, sometimes near impossible to play alongside because his drive for excellence was too hard for others to match. He was viewed as being responsible for breaking up the pairing with

O’Neal (and, to his credit, starting again with Pau Gasol). He and Dwight Howard weren’t able to coexist and push the Lakers to the title people expected.

He and O’Neal reconciled, with the former Lakers big man tweeting Sunday that he’s “sick” right now.

Late in his career, the Lakers struck out when trying to pair an aging Bryant with a top free agent. Making things even tougher, the team gave Bryant a $48.5 million extension after he tore his Achilles, eating up a big chunk of the Lakers’ salary-cap room.

The contract, combined with a game that had been diminished because of injuries and age, helped push the Lakers into the worst stretch in franchise history — a streak of six consecutive seasons without a postseason appearance.

Still, peers admired him.

Throughout the NBA on Sunday, they tweeted tributes, posted photos and wrote messages on their sneakers.

“The day I earned your respect was a day I’ll never forget,” veteran forward Jae Crowder said.

Bryant’s final season before retirement provided him an opportunity to reinvent himself once again, this time as a gracious veteran open to reflection about his career and legacy as he made stops around the NBA. While the celebrations (and the flood of shot attempts) weren’t always popular with his team, Bryant left the game in a perfect way — taking 50 shots and scoring 60 points against the Jazz.

In retirement, Bryant became the father to an heir — his daughter Gianna. They went to WNBA games and he proudly posted videos of her posting up players and making fadeaway jumpers just like him.

He’d become a basketball dad and an AAU coach.

Now, he’s a memory and the world is grieving.

“Kobe was one of the fiercest competitors the NBA has ever known,” former Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak said. “Who will ever forget his Game 7 performance in the 2010 NBA Finals against the Boston Celtics? Despite his own and our entire team’s shooting struggles, he willed us to win with 23 points — 10 coming in the fourth quarter — and 15 rebounds.

That game epitomized his drive, his passion and his desire to win. Although the game was close throughout, I always felt that one way or another he would not let us lose. “... Kobe was a once-in-a-generation player who will forever be remembered for his competitive nature and his will to win. They threw away the mold when Kobe Bryant was born.

There will never be another like him.”

Memories of Kobe Bryant: He was a star even among the biggest stars Mike Jensen The Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA — A Kobe memory: Beijing, China. The 2008 Olympics, a sidewalk outside the Olympic basketball gymnasium.

Two brothers, Apirut and Apichok Saekow, from Bangkok, Thailand, had flown to Beijing for one reason.

Apirut held an athletic bag, with a smaller bag inside it. He pulled out the sole contents of the bag.

A Kobe Bryant Nike Uptempo basketball shoe. Not a pair. One shoe.

“Just to have a look at him — that is my dream,” Apirut said standing on the sidewalk. “Just to see him.

Chat, chat. Anything with him.”

His brother Apichok wore a white jersey that read “Los Angeles” on the front and “Bryant” on the back.

It was a knockoff. Light blue lettering inside of the Lakers’ purple and gold.

It was explained to the brothers that they were in the wrong place, that the USA team bus would enter the building around the corner. The brothers were 38 and 34 years old.

They weren’t going inside to see the game. They had tried but couldn’t afford a ticket to that day’s Angola game.

But they rushed to the proper spot. When the USA team bus approached, they would have their moment. Apirut raced toward the bus, threw his hand up at the window, a high-five from outside, trying to connect with the fifth row from the back.

Kobe Bryant put up his own hand to meet it.

That was enough, more than the brothers ever dreamed of. It was the purest distillation of how huge a figure the Lower Merion High graduate was all over the globe.

“I thought I was famous until I got here with Kobe,” LeBron James said after that game when asked about the Kobe mania.

We all have our Kobe memories, all rushing to the surface with the news that he perished Sunday in a helicopter crash. Maybe you went with your neighbor specifically to see him play for Lower Merion against Conestoga or Springfield.

Maybe you stood in the corner of

the Palestra and watched him take on Rip Hamilton in the PIAA district playoffs.

Maybe you heard about the fits he gave Jerry Stackhouse and others working out with Sixers players while he was still in high school.

Maybe you got your shot blocked by him at Narberth, the ball thrown over a fence into the playground because you dared to trash-talk him, making fun of father’s NBA career.

Maybe you played for the Chester Clippers, offering competition so great that Kobe later had Nike design a shoe with the Clippers colors.

Games from those days live on. You can still find YouTube highlights of Donnie Carr from Roman Catholic High going at it with Kobe and Lower Merion in an epic duel at Drexel.

There was always that love-hate local relationship. Kobe knew it himself. You asked Bryant about the overwhelming adoration shown in Beijing, he said it would be cool for people back home to see that a little bit. “I think if I put on a Sixer jersey it would be a little different story,” Bryant said right after that Angola game, about the feeling for him in

Philly.

You told him the story of the man who had high-fived him from outside the window. He stopped and listened. He didn’t get the chance to hear too many specifics about such thing. There was a college student originally from North Korea studying in Beijing, also out waiting for the bus. She had seemed to know one word of English: Kobe.

More recently, the name Kobe began belonging to more people than Bryant. According to data compiled by the Social Security Administration, 14,148 males were born in the United States with the name Kobe from 1997 to 2014. The year before, when Kobe took Brandy to the Lower Merion High prom, then graduated and moved on to the Los Angeles Lakers, there were 87 Kobes born in the United States.

The year before that, in ‘95, when he was still making his name at Lower Merion, there were nine Kobes born. By 2001, the number grew to 1,552.

“No, I’m not named after Kobe Bryant,” said Kobe Goudeau, who played high school basketball in

Shawnee Heights, Kan. He was talking on the phone to a reporter. In the background, his mother told him, actually, he was.

Carole Williams, Kobe’s mom, who lived in North Philadelphia for a time when she was younger — her father was from the city — related how Kobe’s grandmother was talking through names, throwing out Cody as a possibility. “My daughter just said, “What about Kobe — Kobe Bryant? “ There was just nothing like Beijing. Kobe was the biggest star there, any sport. Everyone knew it, everyone said it. When the USA got past Spain in a terrific gold medal game, the bus pulled back out of the same driveway where the two brothers had encountered Kobe days earlier. This time, there was a massive crowd out there. Deron Williams, a guard for the winning Americans, popped his head up through a hatch in the roof of the bus. Williams began chanting, “USA! ... USA!” The crowd chanted back.

“KO-BE! ... KO-BE!”

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Daughter feels stepfather neglecting vows Dear Abby, My mother is in a locked ward of a nursing home because she has Alzheimer’s and is a flight risk. My stepfather has begun dating her best friend. He doesn’t consider it dating because, at 85, he’s no longer capable of DEAR ABBY having a physical relationship.

However, taking someone to dinner, the theater, church or to a movie constitutes a date to me. People in our small town are talking. I don’t care about that. It’s not their business.

I don’t begrudge my stepfather and his lady their relationship, but he no longer visits Mom as often as he used to. He looks for any excuse not to. An example: He will say he doesn’t want to drive in the rain, then drive in a downpour to go on a date with “The Other Woman.” He says Mom forgets he was there five minutes after he leaves, which, unfortunately, is true. But she lights up when she sees him, and it gives her a moment of joy to visit with him. She knows he’s her husband, and the he visited, she snuggled up to him and said, “I love you.”

Am I wrong to think my stepfather is not fulfilling his vows by neglecting his wife of 25 years? I truly do not mind that he’s lonely and dating, but I feel he should balance his time between the two women in his life.

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JEANNE PHILLIPS

You say you don’t begrudge your stepfather having a social life, and yet you call what he’s doing neglect. Whether your mother is aware of the fact that he’s spending time away from her

is debatable. I assume she’s receiving excellent care, and that both of you check to ensure it.

Quite frankly, what I think about this is irrelevant. The person with whom you should discuss this is your stepfather. Unless you have walked a mile in his shoes, I do not think you should judge him.

Dear Abby, I love my brother, but my sister-in-law, “Daisy,” drives me crazy. Luckily, they live in another state.

I want to see my brother, but getting together always involves his wife. When they travel to see us, they stay for about a week. All Daisy wants to do when they are here is shop.

My husband and brother have no interest in going, so it’s just the two of us.

My problem is, whatever I buy, she buys the same thing. Or, if she sees me wear something she likes, she looks for the same thing to buy.

She thinks it’s OK because they live in a different state. Daisy does this with her other sisterin-law, too, and they live in the same city.

We’re both fed up. What should we do?

Copied In Florida It is said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Daisy may be insecure about her own fashion choices, which is why she copies yours.

Because this bothers you to the degree that it does, the direct way to deal with it would be to tell Daisy it makes you feel encroached upon. Either that or, when you take her shopping, tell her you are going along only to keep her company while SHE shops, and keep your wallet in your purse.

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In a recent column, you wrote: “The acid reflux you have been treating might be something more concerning.” What else could it be?

The symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease vary widely. Some people have heartburn and an acid taste in their mouth after eatTO YOUR ing a provocative meal, such as GOOD HEALTH one that’s large or has a lot of fat. However, other people may cough or experience a small amount of regurgitation; still others note chest discomfort.

Since the symptoms vary so widely and GERD is so common (20% of the Western world), symptoms are often attributed to GERD that might actually be coming from other conditions.

Angina pectoris, the sensation of chest discomfort or pain from poor blood flow to the heart, is often misattributed to GERD. Esophageal and gastric cancer can be misdiagnosed by both patient and physician as GERD. Diseases of the esophagus may also be incorrectly ascribed to GERD, such as mechanical blockages of the esophagus (rings and webs) and neurological abnormalities (motility disorders like achalasia).

Both patients and physicians need to be aware that what seems like reflux might not be.

People with symptoms that recur, last too long or have atypical characteristics should consider a diagnostic test, including an upper endoscopy.

DR. KEITH ROACH

Can you write about the risk/reward of taking 1 mg finasteride daily for life. I’m 68 and now see thinning of my hair and less hair per

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You can combine style and substance in a way that is uniquely your own — though it may take some time for you to get the lay of the land.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You do not know precisely what will come at you today, but you are ready for almost anything. A peripheral event affects you in a strange way.

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inch, front and top. I’m considering going the way of my brother and some friends and trying it. Supposedly, this product stops hair loss and prompts new growth in over 80% of users, rarely with side effects. With boomers aging, finasteride/Propecia is becoming more popular.

Finasteride, sold as Propecia 1 mg for hair loss, is also used (as Proscar 5 mg) for enlarged prostate. It blocks the formation of a type of testosterone, dihydrotestosterone, which is responsible for both hair loss and enlargement of the prostate in men.

Eighty percent benefit is a bit better than the data actually show. About 2/3 of men on finasteride showed overall improvement (only 1% actually lost hair) in a placebo-controlled study; 7% of the placebo group got better, and a third had significant loss. The hair tended to be darker and thicker, and about half of men were satisfied with their hair after treatment.

The major side effect affects sexual function — about 1.5% of men noted this side effect. In some cases, the sexual side effects persisted even after stopping the medication. Other side effects were rare.

The cost is an issue, but many physicians prescribe the 5 mg tablets with instructions to break into 1/4 tablets.

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Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are a deeply sensitive individual, and you respond to the entire world at large in an emotional, almost electrically charged fashion that shapes virtually everything you do in life. When dealing with both your professional affairs and your personal life, you apply all that you are to almost every situation, large or small. Nothing happens around you that you do not feel strongly about in some way; you find it impossible be neutral about anything!

You like to put things together and be both the planner of new projects and the one to bring them home when the time comes. You never like entrusting an idea to anyone else — and you will surely have to work twice as hard at times to make sure the products of your vivid imagination come to fruition.

Also born on this date are: Elijah Wood, actor; Alan Alda, actor; Sarah McLachlan, singer and songwriter; Arthur Rubinstein, pianist; Kathryn Morris, actress; Frank Darabont, director; Nick Carter, singer.

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 29

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Baby Blues ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You can recognize quality when it presents itself to you, and today that ability will serve you well — and the many who choose to ally with you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You must take care that your tone isn’t too harsh or your manner too dismissive today. You have much to say, and you want to be heard!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — It’s time for you to put a certain concept to bed and recognize that the way to do something right now is the most straightforward way.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — A problem arises that you can solve quickly — provided you trust your own imagination and secure someone’s permission right away.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You are eager to hear what someone has to say in response to what you offer up today. You’re expecting some pushback, but it may not come.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You may have trouble explaining to a loved one just what is required today and how to get it done. You’ll get resistance at first.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — The difference between what is genuine and what is put on is going to be revealed to you in no uncertain terms by someone in your inner circle.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You may not be sure that a certain thing is going to happen today, but every instinct tells you that it is so. That’s good enough!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You’re going about a task in your own unique way — and that’s likely to impress someone who usually likes to stay within the lines.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You may be expecting a great deal from someone you know only so well — but you’re likely to be disappointed in a way that’s hard to define.

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SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

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

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

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(Answerstomorrow) tomorrow) (Answers Jumbles: PRONE FLEET TOPAZ EXPAND MILDER CHILD MINGLE FLORAL It required sohis they wrote afixing, letter to oldhelped fishingrepair buddythe town Answer: He clock in its TIME OF NEED because he—wanted to — DROP HIM A LINE

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Solution to to Saturday’s Monday’s puzzle Solution puzzle

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

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(e.g., This chain of stores was founded by Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins.

Answer: Baskin-Robbins.)

Freshman level 1. This company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962.

2. Its corporate identity is recognized by its bull’s-eye trademark logo.

3. Logo: “Golden Arches.”

Graduate level 4. Convenience store known by its two-number name.

5. It is the largest home improvement retailer in the United States.

6. This colorful company is the second-largest pharmacy store chain in the U.S. PH.D. level 7. The brands of this clothing store include Banana Republic and Old Navy.

8. “Think Adoption First” is this company’s philosophy.

9. The second-largest retailer in the world after Walmart.

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Walmart. 2. Target. 3. McDonald’s. 4. 7-Eleven. 5. Home Depot. 6. Walgreens. 7. The Gap. 8. Petco. 9. Costco.

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

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Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 __ Diego, CA 4 More competent 9 Con game 13 Applies frosting 15 Hidden treasure 16 Bar mitzvah dance 17 Yellowish wood 18 Musical sounds 19 New Testament book, for short 20 One who writes plays 22 Punctuation mark 23 Georgia __; univ. in Atlanta 24 Jamie __ Curtis 26 Wild shrill cry 29 Delightful 34 “__ Your Wagon”; Broadway musical 35 Seashore 36 Depart this life 37 Pleurisy’s place 38 Daybreaks 39 “I’ve __ Working on the Railroad” 40 “__ Now or Never” 41 Cone-shaped abode 42 Harmony 43 One nearing adulthood 45 Tureen utensils 46 “__ Father, Who art in heaven…”

47 Orange peel 48 Bull: Sp. 51 “Evita” setting 56 Passionate 57 Keaton or Ladd 58 Silent assents 60 Sickle __ anemia 61 Part of Poe’s name 62 Stare 63 Patella’s place 64 Good buys 65 Chop down DOWN 1 Take a load off 2 __ it; got a hole in one 3 __ miss; close call

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4 Physical assault 5 Thin soup 6 Anderson of “WKRP in Cincinnati” 7 12/24 & 12/31 8 Fidgety 9 Window coverings 10 Comic actress Imogene 11 Carney’s Think __; ponder namesakes 12 Koppel & Knight 12 Loretta Swit 13 “__ Willie Winkie” sitcom 14 Rink activity 21 TV’s “__ the Press” 25 Polish off 26 Banana __; ice cream treat 27 Terre __, IN 28 Dishwasher cycle 29 Might 30 Walkway 31 Just right 32 Female relative 33 Tierney & Hackman 35 __ of Good Hope

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Andover Property Partners Management LLC. Arts of Org. filed with SSNY on 01/22/20.

Office: Greene County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, P.O. Box 20434, New York, NY 10011. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Annual Meeting Union Cemetery Association of Ghent The annual meeting of the Union Cemetery Association of Ghent is to be held on Saturday, February 1, 2020 beginning at 10:00 am at the Ghent Town Hall, Route 66, Ghent, NY. The purpose of the meeting will be the reorganization for the year 2020 including the election of officers.

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.

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 COUNTY CAPITAL RESOURCE CORPORATION NOTICE OF MEETING Please take notice that there will be a regular meeting of the Columbia County Capital Resource Corporation and its Audit, Finance and Governance Committee which will be held on February 4, 2019 at 8:30am at One Hudson City Centre, Suite 301, Hudson, NY 12534 for the purpose of discussing any matters that may be presented to the Corporation for consideration.

Dated: January 28, 2020 Sarah Sterling Secretary Columbia County Capital Resource Corporation COLUMBIA COUNTY INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY MEETING NOTICE Please take notice that there will be a regular meeting of the Columbia County Industrial Development Agency and its Audit, Finance and Governance Committees held on February 4, 2020 at 8:30am at their offices at One Hudson City Centre, Suite 301, Hudson, NY 12534. This meeting will be held to consider all appropriate business brought before it.

The meeting is open to the public.

Sarah Sterling Secretary Columbia County Industrial Development Agency Dated January 28, 2020

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.

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.

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.

LEGAL Notice The Board of Fire Commissioners of the West Athens Lime Street Fire District will meet for a Workshop at 7 pm on Wednesday, January 29th 2020, at Station #2 at 933 Leeds Athens Road .

John P. Farrell, Jr. Chairman

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 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ALTERNATIVE BODYWORK CENTER, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with Department of State, Division of Corp. (SSNY) on 12/16/2019.

County: Greene. SSNY is designated agent of LLC to whom process be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC, 41 Five Mile Woods Road, Catskill, N.Y. 12414.

Any legal act or activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A NEW YORK LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY 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 538 Union Street P.O. Box 321 Hudson, NY 12534

Legal Notice The regular monthly meetings of the West Athens Lime Street Fire District Board of Fire Commissioners will be held on the second Tuesday of each month in 2020, at the District Offices at 921 Schoharie Turnpike at 7 pm, unless otherwise published in this newsNOTICE OF FORMApaper.

TION of Cherry Alley John P. Farrell, Jr. Designs LLC. Articles Chairman of Organization filed Life Aligned Wellness with New York SecreLLC filed Articles of tary of State on JanuOrganization with ary 2, 2020. Office loSSNY on 11/14/2019. cation: Columbia Office: Columbia County. Secretary of County. SSNY desig- State is designated as nated at the agent of agent of LLC upon the LLC upon whom whom service of proprocess against it may cess against it may be be served. SSNY shall served. Secretary of mail copy of process State shall mail proto the LLC, 2389 cess to Robert A. HuCounty Rte 11 Hillsdale NY, 12529. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice is hereby given that a license (number to be assigned) for wine and beer is being applied for by the undersigned to sell wine and beer at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 3328 Route 23A, Town of Catskill, Greene County, New York, for on-premises consumption.

Circle W Market Inc. 3328 Route 23A Palenville, New York 12463 Notice is hereby given that a license (number to be assigned) for wine and beer is being applied for by the undersigned to sell wine and beer at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 395 Main Street, Village of Catskill, Greene County, New York, for on-premises consumption.

Circle W Market Inc. 395 Main Street Catskill, New York 12414 Notice is hereby given that an on-premise license, #TBA has been

ston, 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. Notice of Formation of Dylan Thompson Golf LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/26/2019. Office location, County of Greene. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY Shall mail a copy of process to: Dylan Thompson, P.O. Box 62, Haines Falls, N.Y. 12436. 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.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Mountains of Laundry LLC 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.

NOTICE OF LEGAL POSTPONMENT OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF GREENE The Bank of New York Mellon FKA The Bank of New York as Trustee for the Certificate holders of CWALT, Inc., CHL Mortgage Pass-Through Trust 2004-J2 Mortgage pass-through Certificates Series 2004-J2, Plaintiff AGAINST Bryan Mulligan; Barbara Mulligan; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated October 4, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Greene County Courthouse, 320 Main Street, Catskill, New York on February 6, 2020 at 1:30PM, premises known as 665 Hearts Content Road, Cairo, NY 12413. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Cairo, County of Greene, State of NY, Section 100.00 Block 6 Lot 5.1. Approximate amount of judgment $111,127.28 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 180611.

Richard T. Morrissey, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: January 21, 2020 Original Sale Date: January 9, 2020 #98263 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY 620 HUDSON HOUSE, LLC FIRST: The name of the Limited Liability Company is 620 HUD-

SON HOUSE, LLC (hereinafter referred to as the “Company�)

SECOND: The Articles of Organization of the Company were filed with the Secretary of State on January 23, 2020.

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

FOURTH: The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. The post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail process is David Kessler, 206 Front Street, Apt. 3D, Brooklyn, New York 11201.

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

Dated: January 23, 2020 FREEMAN HOWARD, P.C. 441 East Allen Street P.O. Box 1328 Hudson, New York 12534 SPECIAL MEETING LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Fire Commissioners of the Cairo Fire District will hold the Public vote for the increase in LOSAP on February 4, 2020 at 6:00PM at the Cairo Fire House, Railroad Avenue, Cairo, NY. Gale Snide Treasurer/Secretary NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that the Hudson Common Council will hold a public hearing on Monday, February 10, 2020 at 6:00 PM, in the Common Council

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TOWN OF LIVINGSTON PLANNING BOARD PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that at 7:05 P.M. on Wednesday February 05 2020, the Town of Livingston Planning Board will hold a public hearing at the Livingston Town Hall, 119 County Route 19, Livingston, New York on an application by Luckless Enterprises LLC (Figment Hudson Valley)and Joyce Collier a Special Use (Inn and Hotel) and Site Plan and Subdivision applications to be able to divide existing parcel into 2 separate parcels and the construction of six small rental units together with site parking, onsite sewerage disposal and on site potable water source. Property located 43 Cold Spring Road. Members of the public may be heard on the application at the public hearing or may submit comments in written form. The application materials are on file with the Town of Livingston and are available for NOTICE OF PUBLIC public inspection.

HEARING Eileen Yandik Please be advised Secretary Livingston there will be a Public Planning Board Hearing held on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 at 6:30 pm at Catskill The Bunker RecordTown Hall, 439-441 ings LLC Art. of Org. Main Street, Catskill, filed with the SSNY on NY to hear public 11/19/2019.

Office: comment concerning Greene County. SSNY Local Law 1 and 2 of designated as agent of 2020 increasing the the LLC upon whom Town of Catskill's Sen- process against it may ior Citizen & Low In- be served. SSNY shall come Disabled Tax Ex- mail copy of process emption maximum lim- to the LLC, 6405 Rt 32 it sliding scale from Cairo NY, 12413. Pur$28,500 to $29,000 in pose: Any lawful puraccordance with Real pose.

Property Tax Law Section 459-c and Section NOTICE OF SALE COURT 467. By Order of the SUPREME Catskill Town Board, COUNTY OF COLUMElizabeth Izzo, Town BIA, SEFCU, Plaintiff, vs. BRIAN W. HOFFClerk

Chambers, City Hall, 520 Warren Street, Hudson, on the following proposed Local Laws: Local Law Introductory No. A of 2020 – Imposing a Six-Month Moratorium on the Registration or Operation of Any New Short-Term Lodging Facility.

Local Law Introductory No. B of 2020 – Amending the Lodging Tax to provide for the revenues from the short-term lodging tax be deposited in the City’s General Fund and be allocated during the regular budget process to support the efforts of the Tourism Board as the City deems appropriate and necessary.

Complete texts of the above proposed laws are on file and may be examined at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall during regular office hours or may be viewed on the city website www.cityofhudson.org.

Tracy Delaney City Clerk

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COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA MAN A/K/A BRIAN HOFFMAN, ET AL., 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 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF COLUMBIA WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR MFRA TRUST 2014-2, Plaintiff AGAINST WENDY ANN GARDNER, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated June 24, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Front Steps of the Columbia County Courthouse, 401 Union Street, City of Hudson, on February 28, 2020 at 10:00AM, premises known as 367 COUNTY ROUTE 13, OLD CHATHAM, NY 12136. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Chatham, County of Columbia and State of New York, SECTION 35., BLOCK 1, LOT 14.

Approximate amount of judgment $644,497.36 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 11263-17.

ALBERT KOLAKOWSKI, ESQ., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the TOWN OF GREENVILLE PLANNING BOARD, GREENE COUNTY, NEW YORK, will hold a PUBLIC HEARING on Wednesday February 5, 2020 at 7:00pm at the Town Hall Pioneer Building, 11159 SR 32 Greenville, New York on an application for a 2 lot Subdivision. The applicant, Vincenzino Crudele, is seeking the application for parcel 23.00-5-24, at 85 Old Plank Rd., Greenville.

All those who are interested in this proposal will be provided with the full opportunity to be heard on the date of the Public Hearing.

Persons wishing to appear at such hearing may do so in person or by attorney or other representative. Documents in support of this proposed application are available for inspection at the Greenville Town Building located at the Town Hall, Pioneer Bldg., 11159 SR 32 Greenville, NY. Communications in writing in relation thereto may be filed with the Planning Board or at such hearing.

DATED: January 17, 2020

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD PLANNING OF THE TOWN OF GREENVILLE Submitted by: Hope Nugent, Secretary to Planning Board PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the TOWN OF GREENVILLE PLANNING BOARD, GREENE COUNTY, NEW YORK, will hold a PUBLIC HEARING on Wednesday February 5, 2020 at 7:00pm at the Town Hall Pioneer Building, 11159 SR 32 Greenville, New York on an application for a Site Plan Review & Special Use Permit for an Event Venue. The applicant, Angel Wang, is seeking the applica-

tion for parcels 11.00-4-14 & 11.00-5-4, at 169 Maple Ave., Greenville.

All those who are interested in this proposal will be provided with the full opportunity to be heard on the date of the Public Hearing.

Persons wishing to appear at such hearing may do so in person or by attorney or other representative. Documents in support of this proposed application are available for inspection at the Greenville Town Building located at the Town Hall, Pioneer Bldg., 11159 SR 32 Greenville, NY. Communications in writing in relation thereto may be filed with the Planning Board or at such hearing.

DATED: January 17, 2020

BY ORDER OF THE PLANNING BOARD OF THE TOWN OF GREENVILLE Submitted by: Hope Nugent, Secretary to Planning Board 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 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. REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL FOR LEGAL SERVICES For the period February 1, 2020 – December 31, 2021 Proposals can be picked up at the address below or from the Town website: chathamnewyork.us INQUIRIES AND PROPOSALS SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO: Donal Collins, Supervisor Town of Chatham 488 State Route 295, Chatham, NY 12037 (518) 392-0044 supervisor@chathamnewyork.us Proposals must be submitted no later than 4:00 p.m. on February 6, 2020.

By order of the Chatham Town Board Dated January 17, 2020 Beth Anne Rippel, Town Clerk 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.

THIS conveyance is made in the ordinary course of business of Countryside Acres Corporation with the unanimous consent of its shareholders.

THIS conveyance does Apts. for Rent not constitute all or 298 Greene Co. substantially all of the assets of the corpora- E DURHUM- 2 bdr, heat & hot water, no pets, $950 + tion. refs & sec. 518-943-2892.

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - COUNTY OF COLUMBIA U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ASSET INVESTMENT LOAN TRUST MORTGAGE PA S S - T H R O U G H CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-BNC3, V. DAWN MATO, ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated November 12, 2020, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Columbia, wherein U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ASSET LOAN INVESTMENT TRUST MORTGAGE PA S S - T H R O U G H CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-BNC3 is the Plaintiff and DAWN MATO, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the COLUMBIA COUNTY COURTHOUSE, FRONT LOBBY, 401 UNION STREET, HUDSON, NY 12534, on February 14, 2020 at 10:00AM, premises known as 114 COUNTY ROUTE 7A, COPAKE, NY 12516: Section 187.1, Block 2, Lot 20: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMP R O V E M E N T S THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE TOWN OF COPAKE, COUNTY OF COLUMBIA, STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 13527-18. Robert Thomas Bugbee, Esq. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

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Hudson’s Katie Jepsen dishes off a no-look pass between Catskill’s Sara Leipman and Amaia Sisto (13) during Sunday’s Coaches vs. Cancer game at Columbia-Greene Community College.

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Catskill’s Sara Leipman and Amaia Sisto (13) and Hudson’s Deja Beauford (23) chase a loose ball during Sunday’s Coaches vs.

Cancer game at Columbia-Greene Community College.

Hudson’s Deja Beauford (23) scored 28 points in Hudson’s 5241 victory over Catskill in Sunday’s Coaches vs. Cancer game at Columbia-Greene Community College.

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Rensselaer 47, Taconic Hills 32 HUDSON — Rensselaer jumped out to a 12-point lead by the end of the first quarter and went on to defeat Taconic Hills, 47-32, in Saturday’s Coaches vs. Cancer event at Columbia-Greene Community College.

The Rams built quarterly leads of 16-4, 31-14 and 39-22 in earning the Patroon Conference victory.

Arianna Vogel and Mechelle Caver each had 13 points for Rensselaer. Jasmine Allert added 11.

Emily Mottoshski, Marleah Perry and Macayla Sparacino all had six points for the Titans.

TACONIC HILLS (32): Cooper 2-0-4, Kernan 2-0-4, Kilmer 1-0-2, Mottoshiski 2-1-6, Perry 2-0-6, Shumsky 1-1-4, Sparacino 2-2-6. Totals 12-4-32.

3-pointers: Perry 2, Mottoshiski, Shumsky.

RENSSELAER (47): Allert 5-0-11, Brown 1-2-4, Cancer 6-1-13, Gergenti 1-0-2, Hess 1-0-2, Van Wie 1-0-2, Vogel 5-113. Totals 20-4-47.

3-pointers: Vogel 2, Allert.

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greats of the game and a creative force.”

“Kobe was a legend on the court and just getting started in what would have been just as meaningful a second act,” said former president Barack Obama, who along with former first lady Michelle Obama, Bryant referred to as friends in 2018. “To lose Gianna is even more heartbreaking to us as parents.”

In sports and in life, Bryant was an individual whose tirelessness and competitive drive were as notable as his versatility and ambition.

Known late in his career by the nickname “Black Mamba,” Bryant was one of the smoothest and most dangerous shooters in a league previously dominated by Jordan, Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Larry Bird. When those players retired or their talents faded, Bryant took up their mantle. The 6-f00t-6 shooting guard was named to the NBA’s all-star team in 18 of his 20 seasons, all with the Lakers, and he twice led the league in scoring. He scored 81 points during a game in 2006, the second-highest total in a game in league history.

He and Shaquille O’Neal led the Lakers to three consecutive championships, from 2000 to 2002, though perhaps more impressive was Bryant’s ability to push the Lakers back into the league’s championship ranks after the departures of O’Neal and Coach Phil Jackson, who had guided Jordan’s Chicago Bulls to six championships during the 1990s.

Bryant, who was one of the first players to skip college basketball and declare himself eligible for the NBA draft in 1996, modeled his game after Jordan and saw himself as the heir apparent - and occasional rival - to the former Bulls superstar.

“I was thinking in my mind: I didn’t care,” Bryant said in

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Hudson’s Katie Jepsen (3) drives while being closely guarded by Catskill’s Sara Leipman during Sunday’s Coaches vs. Cancer game at Columbia-Greene Community College.

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Catskill’s Janay Brantley (30) drives to the basket against Hudson’s Deja Beauford (23) and Jada Alert (5) during Sunday’s Coaches vs. Cancer game at Columbia-Greene Community College.

FRIDAY NON-LEAGUE Germantown 36, Emma 2017 during a podcast hosted by Geno Auriemma, the 11-time national championship coach of the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team. “I’m going to destroy this guy. I don’t care if I’m 18; I’m coming for blood.”

Indeed, Bryant’s voracious competitiveness could strike some as aloofness, and his reputation as a teammate and sports role model were matters of controversy. He famously clashed with O’Neal, orchestrating the fun-loving center’s trade from Los Angeles in 2004 because Bryant occasionally viewed him as lazy.

Bryant’s image had already changed a year earlier, when an employee of a Colorado resort accused him of sexually assaulting her. Although charges were eventually dropped, a civil settlement was reached, and Bryant’s image as a clean-cut cultural darling was tarnished.

He would spend the next decade rebuilding his image not just as a detail-oriented perfectionist but as a person obsessed with greatness and achievement overall. He became a mentor of famous young NBA players and anonymous youngsters interested in basketball’s finer points. He coached Gianna’s teams and would occasionally lose himself in extolling her prowess on the court, where she showed instincts and devotion that reminded him of himself.

Gianna will “be standing next to me,” Bryant said during a 2018 appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” “and it’ll be like: ‘And you gotta have a boy. You and [Vanessa] gotta have a boy; have somebody carry on the tradition, the legacy.’ She’s like, ‘I got this.’ “ There was no doubt Bryant seemed fascinated with the concept of greatness and mastering basketball’s finer points. He attended Women’s National Basketball Association games and frequently commented on the highly successful women’s college teams at Connecticut and Notre Dame. In one of his final public appearances, Bryant

Willard 33 GERMANTOWN — Riley Gibbons scored 17 points to lead Germantown to a 36-33

victory over Emma Willard in Friday’s non-league girls basketball game.

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Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant celebrates with his daughter following the Lakers’ 99-86 defeat of the Orlando Magic in Game 5 of the NBA Finals at Amway Arena in Orlando on Sunday, June 14, 2009.

and Gianna were courtside at a Lakers game in December, with Bryant appearing to intensely break down a play to his daughter.

If his commitment to fulfilling potential sometimes rubbed peers the wrong way, it also could be infectious.

After the U.S. men’s basketball team’s disappointing bronze-medal performance in the 2004 Athens Olympics, Bryant was added to the team and quickly became a veteran leader. A noted early riser who, even as he passed his 40th birthday, would often be up by 5 a.m. for an intense workout or shooting session, he challenged Olympic teammates to join the “Breakfast Club.” Bryant’s group met each morning at 7 for weight training or basketball drills, and alongside fellow team leader and NBA superstar LeBron James, Team USA returned to its past dominance with gold medals in 2008 and 2012.

On Saturday, James passed Bryant on the NBA’s career scoring list, and Bryant’s final post to his 15 million Twitter followers was a congratulations to the 35-year-old James, who has spent the past two seasons with the Lakers.

“Continuing to move the game forward @KingJames.

Much respect my brother,” Mr. Bryant’s tweet read, with a hashtag of James’s points total when he passed Bryant: 33,644.

Between games and workouts, Bryant was an insatiable learner on and off the court.

Early in his career, he picked the brains of Jordan and Hakeem Olajuwon to learn and mimic their signature basketball moves. Although Bryant had never attended college, he was nonetheless captivated by the pursuit of knowledge and lifelong improvement. He took summer school courses at UCLA after his rookie season in the NBA, and years later he invited entertainers and visionaries - Oprah Winfrey, J.K. Rowling and George R.R. Martin among them - for in-depth discussions about their crafts.

“It can seem a little obtuse, maybe, but he seemed to be interested in all of this,” John Williams, the legendary filmscore composer and five-time Oscar winner, said of Bryant in a 2018 interview with The Washington Post.

Although Bryant accomplished almost everything possible on the basketball court, a traditional retirement never held much appeal. A lifelong film buff who filled idle time by quoting “Star

one quarter, 16-11 at halftime and 24-21 through three quarters.

Emma Shields led Emma Willard with 13 points. Molly Zahnleuter had nine.

EMMA WILLARD (33): Harris 2-0-4, Kaur 3-1-7, E. Shields

6-1-13, Zahnleuter 3-2-9, A. Shields 0-0-0. Totals 14-4-33.

3-pointers: Zahnleuter.

GERMANTOWN (36): Decker 1-0-2, Denninger 2-1-5, Dunn 2-0-6, Gibbons 6-5-17, Ljutich 2-2-6. Totals 13-8-36.

3-pointers: Dunn 2.

Wars,” “The Big Lebowski” or a Harry Potter movie, Bryant began imagining his next career before stepping away from his first. His basketball career had made him a millionaire a few hundred times over, but his investments in the sports drink company BodyArmor and other companies that included grooming products and artificial intelligence were positioning Bryant to again follow Jordan, this time into an exclusive club of billionaires who began their careers as athletes.

Unlike Jordan, Bryant had no intention of spending his decades after basketball earning passive income. It was during a ride aboard “The Mamba Chopper,” or what he called the Sikorsky S-76 helicopter he took to Lakers games, that in 2016 he conceived of an alternate world in which his stories and characters would exist. He would call that world “Granity” and would name his fledgling film studio the same.

“There are infinite possibilities,” he told The Post in September 2018, and it was precisely that concept that drew him in.

During Bryant’s final season with the Lakers, he wrote a poem called “Dear Basketball,” or what amounted to a farewell to the game that made him a household name. He later adapted the poem into a nearly four-minute animated film, complete with a rousing score by Williams. It was one of five nominees for best animated short before the 2018 Academy Awards, and Bryant took to the stage in his victory and, in one of the four languages Bryant claimed fluency in, thanked Vanessa and his three daughters. (His fourth, Capri, was born in 2019.)

“You are my inspiration,” he said first in Italian and then English before walking away with his Oscar statuette.

Kobe Bean Bryant was born in Philadelphia on Aug. 23, 1978, before spending many of his formative years in Italy.

His mother, the former Pamela Cox, was a homemaker and the sister of former NBA

player Chubby Cox; his father, Joe “Jellybean” Bryant, was a professional basketball player who spent most of his playing and coaching career in Europe. Both parents survived him, in addition to his wife of 18 years; three daughters, Bianka, Natalia and Capri; and two sisters.

Bryant first attracted national attention as a high school player at Lower Merion High in suburban Philadelphia, and he combined generational talent with looks and flair - his date to senior prom was R&B singer Brandy - perfectly suited for Hollywood.

Although his first name, at least according to Bryant mythology, was inspired by a visit to a high-end steak house, Yahoo Sports reported in 2016 that more than 14,000 boys had been named Kobe during Bryant’s NBA career.

As a 17-year-old, he was the No. 13 pick in the 1996 NBA draft by the Charlotte Hornets, but he threatened to follow in his father’s footsteps and begin his career in Italy if the Hornets retained his rights.

The team traded him to the Lakers, with whom he would spend his entire career and become an immediate fan favorite by winning the 1997 slam dunk contest, beginning a sensational career and fulfilling Bryant’s ambition for suiting up for an NBA team most famous for glitz, glamour and an era of glory known as “Showtime.”

The journey had begun on his family’s driveway in Philadelphia, where on snowy days Bryant’s mother would ask him to clear the driveway. He would do so just enough to shoot hoops, sometimes putting up hundreds of shots per day as he perfected a form that would become internationally famous.

“As a six-year-old boy deeply in love with you,” Mr. Bryant would write nearly two decades later in his poem “Dear Basketball,” “I never saw the end of the tunnel. I only saw myself running out of one.”