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was so much blood exposure that anything that was a potential disease from other inmates, I had to take that for two months. I was not able to eat, I was nauseous. I was going to the bathroom on myself.”

In response to a question from Biaggi about preemptive measures could have been taken to ward off the attack, the officer said the staffing numbers among the officers was a major problem.

ALBANY — A former Greene County public defender was disbarred Thursday after pleading guilty to felony assault charges.

Anthony Pastel, 38, was stripped of his right to practice law by order of the Appellate Division of the Third Judicial Department in state Supreme Court in Albany.

On Jan. 21, Pastel pleaded guilty in Greene County Court to second-degree violent felony assault.

In the plea deal, Pastel admitted to repeatedly punching his then-girlfriend with a closed fist, fracturing her skull, causing a brain hemorrhage and resulting in brain damage during an assault in the village of Athens in August 2020.

Pastel was first arrested by state police Aug. 4, 2020, and charged with second-degree assault and second-degree strangulation, both class D felonies; endangering the welfare of a child, a class A misdemeanor; and driving while intoxicated, an unclassified misdemeanor.

In November of 2020, the charges were upgraded to attempted murder.

“He was originally charged with felony assault and then what happened was we looked at this closely and looked at all of the facts and then we upgraded the charge to attempted murder,” Greene County District Attorney Joseph Stanzione said on Friday.

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New York State Senators Julia Salazar and Alessandra Biaggi host a virtual senate hearing on sexual assault in the prison system on Thursday.

Greene officer testifies at sexual assault hearing

By Ted Remsnyder Columbia-Greene Media

ALBANY — A Greene Correctional Facility corrections officer recounted her harrowing story of a 2020 assault that she experienced from a prisoner during a New York State Senate hearing on Thursday.

The joint public hearing on the impact of sexual assault in the prison system was

this request, to testify anonymously,” Salazar said of the witness.

The witness was identified at the virtual meeting as an Impacted Correction Officer as she told her story of an assault that took place at the Coxsackie state prison on June 5, 2020.

Columbia-Greene Media does not identify victims of sexual abuse or assault.

“I was assaulted physically and almost sexually assaulted,” she testified.

The officer then showed the

led by state Sen. Julia Salazar, D-Brooklyn, who chairs the Senate Standing Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction and state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi, D-Bronx, who chairs the Senate Standing Committee on Ethics and Internal Governance.

The Greene correction officer appeared on camera to testify during the virtual hearing, but Salazar said her identity would not be revealed.

“An officer who has requested, and we’re honoring

panel a photo of her bruised face and thighs in the aftermath of the attack as she lay in a hospital bed at Albany Medical Center.

“The inmate kicked me and cut me,” she said. “This is what I live with every day, senators.

Mentally I was not able to go back to work for 11 months.

Mentally I was not able to be in a dorm around other incarcerated individuals. I could not mentally do it. I was very suicidal. I had to take some sort of cocktail because there

New trial for suspected murderer set to begin

By Natasha Vaughn-Holdridge Columbia-Greene Media

The retrial of a Claverack man accused of beating his wife to death and hiding her body under their mobile home will begin Monday.

Arthur H. Morgan Jr., now 50, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison in the case in 2008, but his conviction was overturned in 2017 when the New York State Court of Appeals ruled Morgan was improperly prevented from testifying.

Jury selection began at the Columbia County Courthouse in Hudson this week and was completed Friday, the Columbia County District Attorney’s Office said. The trial is scheduled to begin 9

a.m. Monday.

A retrial essentially works the same as any first-time trial, Assistant District Attorney Ryan Carty said this week.

This trial will differ somewhat because the crime allegedly took place nearly 14 years ago. There is no definite way to know how long the trial will last he said.

Morgan was arrested in April 2008 by Columbia County sheriff’s deputies and charged with second-degree murder, a class A-1 felony, in CONTRIBUTED PHOTO connection with the death of Arthur H. Morgan Jr. his wife Angela.

Angela Morgan’s body was Angela Morgan had multifound April 9, 2008, wrapped in a blanket and placed un- ple and extensive fresh bruisder the mobile home at 5659 es on her skin and mouth, Route 9H in Claverack. which were believed to be

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inflicted before her death, according to the original autopsy report published April 10, 2008.

A chemical agent found in her system suggested she had recently used cocaine before she died, but cocaine was not detected in her system, according to the report.

“The autopsy revealed numerous severe injuries, including extensive bruising and brain damage,” the report said. “However, none of these injuries is life-threatening. Because of the circumstance in which the remains were discovered, and the presence of extensive trauma, the death is certified as a homicide.”

In its decision to overturn

Morgan’s conviction, the state appellate court ruled Morgan had made statements in open court asking to give testimony after the defense rested its case.

The “defendant’s statements constituted a clear request to testify, despite having perhaps been advised against it by counsel,” according to court papers. “Defendant’s request to testify, coupled with his statements that he and defense counsel had disagreed on the issue, gave rise to one of those rare circumstances in which County Court was required to engage in a direct colloquy with defendant so as to discern whether he had been See TRIAL A2

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“Staffing has become an issue for us,” she said. “We are severely understaffed. I do believe that if another officer was placed with me, when you’re in a dorm with 40 to 50 male incarcerated individuals, and it’s one officer to 40 to 50, it’s a problem.”

The officer said that when she was attacked by the inmates she was in dire need of assistance.

PHOTO COURTESY OF NY SENATE “I was dragged into a room and my body-worn camera that An anonymous Greene County Correctional Facility corrections sits on my shirt, that individual officer testifies about a prison assault during a virtual senate ripped my shirt open to throw it hearing on sexual assault in the prison system on Thursday. out of the room,” she said. “He then took my only radio assis- incarcerated individuals for ev- significant staff absences.”

The officer who testified was tance. All of my equipment that ery staff member,” DOCCS said was supposed to help me, if in a statement on Friday. “This named as a plaintiff in a federal there was another officer there, ratio of 1.8:1 falls well below the lawsuit filed in May 2021 in U.S. even if I was being attacked, if national average in state facili- District Court in Albany by the that officer was able to call for ties at approximately 4:1 and in New York State Correctional help, it would have helped a lot.” federal prisons at 9:1, as of Nov. Officers and Police Benevolent The officer said other inmates 1, 2018, which is the most re- Association against the state cently available national data.”

Department of Corrections and stepped in to stop the attack.

DOCCS also said that as of Community Supervision, for“The incarcerated individuals that were in my dorm, thank Feb. 25, there were two incar- mer Gov. Andrew Cuomo and God I was fair to them, they ac- cerated individuals for every DOCCS Acting Commissioner tually came to my defense,” she one security staff member at Anthony Annucci over the Humane Alternatives to Longsaid. “But that is not their job to Greene Correctional Facility.

“While the Department’s Term Solitary Confinement Act. come to my defense. It is up to The HALT Act, which was my sisters and brothers in blue staffing ratios are some of the to come to my defense. Unfor- best in the nation, the CO- signed by Cuomo last spring, tunately I wasn’t given that op- VID-19 pandemic has, at times, bans prisons from holding incaused a strain on staffing levels mates in solitary confinement portunity.”

The Department of Correc- throughout the past two years,” for more than 15 consecutive tions and Community Supervi- DOCCS said. “Emergency con- days. sor detailed the staffing num- trol plans are in place at each The officer told senators durbers in the state prison system. facility, which includes provi- ing the hearing that the legisla“As of December 2021, sions uniquely designed to meet tion does not provide enough the Department had 1.8 that facility’s needs, to deal with of a deterrent for inmates to not

attack staff members in prison.

“When does the state stand up for us?” she said. “We’re coming to work every day to protect the state of New York.

When do the bills come that protect us? That when an incarcerated individual decides to physically or sexually assault one of us, when do they say, ‘This is going to happen now because this happened to one of our staff members.’ We feel that we as corrections officers have been left behind.”

The panel heard from 15 witnesses during the hearing, including sexual assault victims and advocacy groups, and Salazar said the committee would continue to receive written testimony from additional witnesses.

At the beginning of the sixhour hearing, Biaggi praised the sexual assault survivors who shared their stories with the panel.

“All of your testimonies will allow us to develop better policies and to make sure we prevent future harms,” she said.

“We’re here to examine the pervasive problem of sexual assault in correction facilities in the state of New York.”

Salazar has co-sponsored Senate bill S2175, which is in committee.

The bill would create the Office of the Correctional Ombudsman to achieve transparency, fairness, impartiality and accountability in New York state correctional facilities.

disbarred retroactively to the date that he entered his plea of guilty.”

Stanzione said the disbarment is not Pastel’s criminal penalty in the case. He is set to be sentenced May 25 by Judge Debra Young, acting justice for the Rensselaer County Supreme Court in the Third Judicial District of New York, in Greene County Court on the violent assault charge.

Pastel faces up to seven years in state prison on the charge.

“There is no disposition for

him, basically the sentence will be whatever the judge deems is appropriate,” Stanzione said. “There will be arguments on both sides. She’ll hear all of the arguments as to the full set of facts from the case, and she’ll make a determination as to what the sentence will be.”

Pastel had worked for the Columbia County Public Defender’s Office from 2016 to 2018 before joining the Greene County Public Defender’s Office in May 2019.

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Pastel was subsequently offered a plea deal for seconddegree violent felony assault.

“When we went through our discovery, the determination was made to make a proposal that he would plead to the violent felony assault to the satisfaction of his charges,” Stanzione said. “He did in fact enter a plea and that was the top count initially. It’s the

appropriate count actually.”

Stanzione said Pastel’s guilty plea triggered the disbarment in state Supreme Court.

“As a result of that plea, by New York State law it is an automatic disqualification from holding a law license,” Stanzione said. “So the matter was presented to the Committee on Professional Standards, who made their review and recommendation and then the Appellate Division made the formal determination that he was disbarred. He was

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KYIV, Ukraine - Even as the boom of outgoing artillery shells sounded every minute, Oksana Shlonska was determined to bury her husband.

He was killed by gunfire last Sunday, but the war had prevented his final rites.

First, the autopsy took days due to the numerous corpses arriving at the morgue. Then, on Thursday, a Grad missile crashed near the gravesite in Kyiv forcing the mourners to flee.

“The Russians shelled even the cemetery,” said Shlonska.

“They fear even our dead.”

On Friday, despite the danger, she was going try again to pay her last respects to her 54-year-old husband, Volodymyr Nezhenets, a child psychologist who signed up last week to fight against Russia and was fatally shot in a gun battle not too far from the

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advised that the decision to testify ultimately belonged to him and whether, at the time that the defense rested, defendant’s failure to testify had been a knowing, voluntary and intelligent waiver of that right...”

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Oksana Nezhenets and other family members during the funeral of her husband Volodymyr Nezhenets during his funeral in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 4.. Volodymyr Nezhenets, a fighter of the Ukrainian Territorial Defense forces was killed during a shootout in Kyiv on Feb. 27.

cemetery.

“It is important for me to bury him today,” she said as she waited in the morning at the morgue to claim her husband’s remains. In her arms,

she tightly clutched a portrait of him.

As Ukraine’s war intensifies and spreads into multiple cities, the casualties are mounting. So are the obstacles to give

At his first trial, Morgan said, “I never said that I didn’t want to take the stand though, your Honor,” according to court papers.

Several changes in Morgan’s legal representation delayed trial dates to give his counsel enough time to familiarize themselves with the case.

Steven Sharp, a public defender in Albany County, will

represent Morgan.

Sharp said as a general rule he does not make comments to the media until the end of the case. He added he would speak with reporters after a verdict is reached.

In advance of his retrial, Morgan was represented by several attorneys, including Steven K. Patterson, Bryan Rounds, Julio Hernandez and William Galvin.

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a proper send-off to the dead.

The precise numbers of both civilian and military deaths are murky and cannot be independently verified. But that total means little to those Ukrainians who know one searing truth: Their loved ones had either sacrificed their lives for their family and country in battle or killed in crossfire or bombings. Most Ukrainians and international officials expect the toll - and the challenges of burying the dead - to significantly rise as the conflict appears to be entering a more dangerous phase.

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Candlelight vigil for Ukraine victims Sunday

By Noah Eckstein Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — There will be a candlelight vigil Sunday at 6 p.m. at 7th Street Park, the city’s public square, in honor of those who have died in the Ukrainian invasion.

The event is being organized by Victoria Emanuela, a Polish writer living in Hudson, working toward becoming a

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Caroline Lewis, a Community Share educator and engagement specialist for the Returned Peace Corps Volunteers Alliance for Ukraine, said Americans can do more than pray and hope for the best.

She said to reach out to Congress and the White House as soon as possible.

She also suggested that concerned citizens should demand that politicians

immediately call for a no-fly zone over Ukraine to protect Ukrainian soil, cut Russia off from the worldwide interbank SWIFT, sanction Putin and his oligarchs directly and hold a vote on the Defending Ukraine Sovereignty Act 2022.

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certified grief counselor.

The event’s purpose is to bring the community together to pray for Ukraine and to collectively grieve for those who have died in the war.

“We have Ukrainian families in our community and we want to make sure they know that they are being supported at this time,” Mayor Kamal Johnson said.

MILAN — A man wanted by authorities in connection with a homicide in Vermont led police on a high-speed pursuit in a gray Jeep Wrangler through part of Columbia County on the Taconic State Parkway on Tuesday, police said Friday.

The victim was identified as Vincent Keithan, 44, of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, an autopsy by the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office in Burlington, Vermont state police said.

State police obtained a felony aggravated assault arrest warrant for Jerry Ramirez, 35, of Brooklyn, as they investigated into the incident.

Ramierz was one of two men in the vehicle involved in an assault prior to Tuesday’s shooting.

Vermont Superior Court Judge Justin Jiron signed Ramirez’s arrest warrant late Wednesday in Caledonia County criminal court and ordered him held on $50,000 bail.

Ramirez remains in New York State Police custody.

He was hospitalized after his vehicle crashed in Dutchess County, ending the highspeed pursuit with law enforcement.

Ramirez struck a woman in the head while they were inside a vehicle parked in a lot outside Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital on

Tuesday morning, according to court papers supporting the arrest warrant.

Troopers initiated a traffic stop, but the driver of the Jeep failed to comply and led police on a short pursuit.

When the vehicle entered the town of Clinton, in Dutchess County, police used spike strips to end the pursuit and the driver and passenger ran from the Jeep into the woods.

New York State Police located the two men a short time later.

No charges have been filed against Ramirez related to the fatal shooting of Keithan, police said. The investigation remains active and ongoing.

Ramirez will be extradited to Vermont to face charges there, police said.

“We are working closely

with our counterparts in Vermont to bring this investigation to a successful conclusion, state police Troop K spokesman Trooper Aaron Hicks said Friday.

The suspect’s gray Jeep Wrangler with Connecticut license plates was photographed by a surveillance camera outside Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital at 8:40 a.m. Tuesday.

New York State Police, who were alerted with a description and license plate number of the vehicle, spotted it traveling south on the Taconic State Parkway in southern Columbia County at about 5 p.m., police said.

The passenger was uninjured and subsequently released.

The Jeep’s driver was

transported to a Dutchess County hospital where he remains hospitalized with nonlife-threatening injuries. The driver’s condition is stable, police said.

Police responded to a reported shooting in the parking lot outside Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital at 1315 Hospital Drive in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, at about 8:50 a.m. Tuesday.

Investigators found the victim’s body in the hospital parking lot, police said.

St. Johnsbury is about 76 miles east of Burlington.

An autopsy determined a

gunshot wound to the neck caused Keithan’s death, police said.

Police released a photograph and description of the vehicle asking for the public’s assistance to locate the suspects.

“The occupants of the vehicle should be considered potentially armed and dangerous,” police said in a prepared statement following the shooting. “Anyone who sees the Jeep should immediately call 911 or their nearest police department. Do not approach the vehicle or its occupants.”

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Another shot at a firing range Now that the Greene County Sheriff’s Office is petitioning lawmakers to reopen a Cairo shooting range that has been shuttered for the last four years, the Legislature must look at all environmental and financial impacts of the proposal before rendering a decision.

During a Public Safety Committee meeting Wednesday, Sgt. Shawn Marriott told lawmakers that the office is in need of its own range to train its officers after several years of traveling out of the county to conduct its sessions.

The dormant range is situated on more than 50 acres of county-owned property in Cairo. While the Cairo range has been closed down, Greene County sheriff’s deputies have traveled to an array of outside ranges to fit in their training sessions.

The range deteriorated over the years. Shooters were firing into the side of a hill because there were no pre-manufactured structures to collect bullets. As a result, erosion weakened the hill. Greene County Legislator Harry Lennon, D-Cairo, has said the excessive noise from allowing other agencies to use it drew neighborhood complaints. The range was essentially a hillside. It was useful for years until the county shut it down.

Marriott told the Legislature it would cost between $200,000 and $300,000 to equip the range with a bulletproof trap system. Greene County Legislator Michael Bulich, R-Catskill, wanted to know if there had been concerns from Cairo residents about the range going back into operation.

The hill would have to be rehabilitated, possibly

with some muffling-type devices or a layer of berming on top of the existing berm such as plantings that would absorb sound.

Then there is the matter of reclaiming the lead.

Manufactured boxes are designed to capture lead so that it doesn’t burrow into the soil. The spent bullets would be captured in the sand at the bottom of the box. It is then a simple matter of pulling the tray out and safely disposing of the waste lead.

Yes, the personnel of the Greene County Sheriff’s Office need to be trained in the use of firearms and a top officer is calling for that. But even if this proposal takes months to complete, issues related to the cost to taxpayers and the environmental effects still exist. It’s up to the Legislature to make sure this new shooting range is not a misfire.

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Two years into the pandemic, daily life is finally starting to feel more normal. The White House has dropped its mask mandate for those who are vaccinated. So have Congress and many states, workplaces and school districts. President Joe Biden and other top officials are rightly describing the virus now as “endemic,” meaning it isn’t gone, but the risk level is low enough that it’s safe to resume the bulk of normal in-person activities without masks.

So why haven’t all federal workers returned to the office? A logical next step, it would usher in a much needed revival of downtown D.C. The nation’s capital remains largely a ghost town, especially in the central areas that are dominated by federal workers and white-collar professions such as law, consulting and media. Many jobs at restaurants and hotels downtown have still not returned. D.C.’s unemployment remains near 6 percent, and the leisure

and hospitality sector is down more than 23,000 jobs. Metro ridership continues at anemic levels.

On a peak day in late February, it was just 170,000, which is a tiny fraction of the 626,000 who rode Metro on an average day in 2019. Metro is facing severe budget shortfalls and desperately needs more riders to return to maintain service.

Biden spelled it out in his State of the Union address: “It’s time for America to get back to work and fill our great downtowns again,” he said. “We’re doing that here in the federal government. The vast majority of federal workers will once again work in person.”

Now he needs to back that up with action. About half of the 2.1 million civilian federal workers were still working remotely at the start of the year and some do not yet have clear plans for an inperson return.

Returning to the office doesn’t have to mean five days a week. The Post is among many companies implementing a “hybrid”

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Workers want flexibility and many federal employees can likely still work some days from home.

But it’s important to remember that only 15 percent of U.S. workers still had the privilege of working from home in January, when omicron was at its worst. The vast majority of Americans have had to keep commuting to their jobs in hospitals, grocery stores, warehouses, public safety and more. There is a big divide in American society between who can work from home and who can’t right now.

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Donald Trump looks increasingly like a stray orange hair to be flicked off the nation’s sleeve WASHINGTON — Floundering in his attempts to wield political power while lacking a political office, Donald Trump looks increasingly like a stray orange hair to be flicked off the nation’s sleeve. His residual power, which he must use or lose, is to influence his party’s selection of candidates for state and federal offices. This is, however, perilous because he has the power of influence only if he is perceived to have it. That perception will dissipate if his interventions in Republican primaries continue to be unimpressive.

So, Trump must try to emulate the protagonist of “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.” In Mark Twain’s novel, a 19th-century American is transported back in time to Britain in the year 528. He gets in trouble, is condemned to death, but remembers that a solar eclipse occurred on the date of his scheduled execution. He saves himself by vowing to extinguish the sun but promising to let it shine again if his demands are met.

Trump is faltering at the business of commanding outcomes that are, like Twain’s eclipse, independent of his interventions. Consider the dilemma of David Perdue.

He is a former Republican senator because Trump, harping on the cosmic injustice of his November loss in 2020, confused and demoralized Georgia Republicans enough to cause Perdue’s defeat by 1.2 percentage points in the January 2021 runoff. Nevertheless, Trump talked Perdue into running in this year’s gubernatorial primary against Georgia’s Republican incumbent, Brian Kemp, whom Trump loathes because Kemp spurned Trump’s demand that Georgia’s presidential vote be delegitimized. In a February poll, Kemp led Perdue by 10 points.

Trump failed in his attempt to boost his preferred Senate candidate in North Carolina, Rep. Ted Budd, by pressuring a rival out of

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WILL the race. As of mid-January, Budd was trailing in the polls.

Trump reportedly might endorse a second Senate candidate in Alabama, his first endorsement, of Rep. Mo Brooks, having been less than earthshaking. Trump has endorsed Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin in the gubernatorial primary against Gov. Brad Little. A poll published in January: Little 59%, McGeachin 18%. During Trump’s presidency, a majority of Republicans said they were more supporters of Trump than of the GOP. That has now reversed.

Trump is an open book who has been reading himself to the nation for 40 years.

In that time, he has changed just one important word in his torrent of talk: He has replaced “Japan” with “China” in assigning blame for our nation’s supposed anemia.

He is an entertainer whose repertoire is stale.

A European war is unhelpful for Trump because it reminds voters that Longfellow was right: Life is real, life is earnest. Trump’s strut through presidential politics was made possible by an American reverie; war in Europe has reminded people that politics is serious.

From Capitol Hill to city halls, Democrats have presided over surges of debt, inflation, crime, pandemic authoritarianism and educational intolerance. Public schools, a point of friction between citizens and government, are hostages of Democratic-aligned teachers unions that have positioned K-12 education in an increasingly adversarial relationship with parents. The most lethal threat to Democrats,

however, is the message Americans are hearing from the party’s media-magnified progressive minority: You should be ashamed of your country.

Trump’s message is similar. He says this country is saturated with corruption, from the top, where dimwits represent the evidently dimwitted voters who elected them, down to municipalities that conduct rigged elections. Progressives say the nation’s past is squalid and not really past; Trump says the nation’s present is a disgrace.

Speaking of embarrassments: We are the sum of our choices, and Vladimir Putin has provoked some Trump poodles to make illuminating ones. Their limitless capacity for canine loyalty now encompasses the Kremlin war criminal. (The first count against Nazi defendants at Nuremberg: “Planning, preparation, initiation and waging of wars of aggression.”)

For example, the vaudevillian-as-journalist Tucker Carlson, who never lapses into logic, speaks like an arrested-development adolescent: Putin has never called me a racist, so there.

J.D. Vance, groveling for Trump’s benediction (Vance covets Ohio’s Republican Senate nomination), two weeks ago said: “I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine.” Apparently upon discovering that Ohio has 43,000 Ukrainian Americans, Vance underwent a conviction transplant, saying, “Russia’s assault on Ukraine is unquestionably a tragedy,” and emitting clouds of idolatry for Trump’s supposedly Metternichian diplomacy regarding Putin.

For Trump, the suppurating wound on American life, and for those who share his curdled venom, war is a hellacious distraction from their self-absorption. Fortunately, their ability to be major distractions is waning.

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By Bob Beyfuss For Columbia-Greene Media

March arrived this past week with typical March like weather; snow, rain, sleet, some sunshine and breezy.

Days are longer and many people are anxious to get outside and do something horticulturally! This is a good time to cut some scions for grafting later on in April. If you have an apple or pear tree that makes tasty fruit, you can graft it onto another tree of the same species. Even old, wild, apple trees are suitable for grafting onto or from, if the fruit are tasty! If your apple tree does not reliably set fruit each year, you can graft some crabapple branches onto it. Crabapples generally bloom more profusely than eating varieties and their pollen is suitable to fertilize most other apple varieties.

Intentional grafting is one of the oldest horticultural practices known to humans. It dates back thousands of years and was widely practiced during the Roman Empire and very likely predates that era as well. Generally speaking, it is a technique to join two different plants together in a manner that allows them to grow together as a single plant. Grafting is also used sometimes to join the same plant back together when the plant has been damaged. For example, an apple tree that has been girdled by rodents can sometimes be saved by creating “bridge grafts” that connect the roots to the trunk again bypassing the damaged tissue.

Small diameter branches from the upper part of the tree are grafted onto the trunk, both below and above the damaged tissue, creating a “bridge” to bypass the damage.

Most of us see examples of grafting every day, if we live in

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BEYFUSS a community that has street trees. Street trees of all species are usually grafted in the nursery where they are produced.

We also eat tree fruit on a daily basis that is the result of grafting. Almost all of our apples and most other tree fruit are produced by grafting.

The process is really quite simple. It is a manner of connecting the plumbing from one plant to the plumbing of another plant by aligning the pipes properly. Plant plumbing consists of tubes or vessels that are like vertically connected straws. Xylem vessels are the water connecting pipes and phloem vessels are the food connecting straws. In between the pipes (vessels) are cells and tissues that can regenerate new pipes and allow fusion to occur. In order for a graft to be successful, the two different plants generally need to be pretty closely related. Apples graft easily onto other apples and pears graft easily to other pears, but apples and pears don’t graft well to each other. Sometimes the grafted partners really don’t look all that much alike, nor are they always very closely related. Pears are often grafted onto quince roots and lilacs are often grafted onto privet (a common hedge plant) roots.

There are many reasons for grafting ranging from economic to purely esthetic.

Street trees are grafted to

insure a nice straight trunk that you can walk by without side branches hitting you in the face. Grafting a bud onto an existing trunk above a well developed root system insures that the shoot growing from that bud will grow fast and long. Typically a bud from the desired cultivar is grafted to the trunk just above the root system in the dormant season.

When growth commences and the bud begins to grow, the remaining top portion of the tree is removed so that all the energy, water and nutrients the root system is capable of producing is channeled into that single stem from the bud.

Other shoots that may arise from the roots or trunk are removed so as not to compete with the desired one.

In nature it may take many years for an apple tree to bear its fruit while growing on its own roots, but you can graft a mature branch of a different variety onto that tree when that tree is young and get it to produce fruit in a single year.

There are well over 2,000 different named cultivars of apple trees and hundreds of different rootstocks they may be grafted onto. Grafting does not just represent the characteristics of the scion, i.e. the part that is attached, but also is influenced by the characteristics of the plant that it is attached to (the stock). Some apple rootstocks limit the size of the tree to 6 feet or less, regardless of what variety is grafted onto it. Other rootstocks may tolerate adverse conditions such as excess moisture or drought.

Others may confer disease resistance, anchorage ability in wind and other traits.

Next week I will go into the process of grafting.

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U.S. Postal Service has delivered more than 270 million COVID-19 test kits to American households WASHINGTON, DC — The United States Postal Service announced that it has delivered more than 270 million COVID-19 test kits to American households as part of President Biden’s plan to distribute free at-home tests to Americans for free. The Postal Service reported over 68 million test kit packages (with four tests per kit) have been shipped to American households across all states, Tribes and territories; each package contains four individual test kits. On average, it takes just 1.2 days for the Postal Service to deliver a test kit package once it has been received from the manufacturer, kitted and entered into the mailstream.

On Feb. 22, the Postal Service delivered over 6 million COVID-19 test kit packages — the highest single day volume delivered since shipping began at the end of January.

“There are few assignments the Postal Service has received that better exemplify our public service mission than the request of the Biden Administration to deliver America’s COVID-19 test kits,” said Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer Louis DeJoy. “It is a major point of pride throughout our organization to have met our own performance expectations and those of the public. We are grateful for the strong collaboration of our partners across the federal government, including the White House, the Department of Health and Human Services

and the Department of Defense. Thank you to our Postal Service employees, our union and management association partners for so effectively and efficiently delivering such strong performance across the board.”

COVID-19 Test Kit Delivery by the Numbers: Over 270 million – tests packaged and shipped to American households across the country.

Over 68 million – packages delivered to households across all states, Tribes and territories to date.

1.2 average days to delivery Over 6 million – number of test kit packages delivered by the U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday, Feb. 22, the highest single day volume since delivery began end of January.

Over 68 million orders for free rapid at-home COVID-19 test kits have been placed through the Biden Administration’s covidtests.gov, an easy-to-use consumer website established and managed

by USPS in partnership with the United States Digital Service, since the website was launched on Dec. 21, 2021.

The Postal Service immediately pivoted from a successful 2021 peak holiday season to focus on the delivery of America’s COVID-19 test kits. Quick negotiations with the postal unions enabled the retention of many of the seasonal staff who were reassigned from their holiday roles, and new annex facilities acquired in the

year prior were rapidly reconfigured to ensure workspace and storage capacity could handle the immediate influx of millions of test kits daily.

Strong interagency collaboration between the Postal Service, White House, Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Defense has been a key factor in the success of this mission.

Coordinated efforts included test kit inventory flow management from manufacturers to USPS Surface Transportation Centers, and then onto 48 Postal processing facilities to pack, label and ship.

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Solving the world’s problems one ponder at a time

By Dick Brooks For Columbia-Greene Media

It’s been a good day so far.

My body’s alarm clock went off at the usual time, decades of “gotta get to work” have programmed me so that I can’t sleep late even if I wanted to. What used to be a jump out of bed over the years has turned into a slow rise as various body parts fight for position. Snap, Crackle and Pop used to be my breakfast cereal but now it’s the cartilage chorus that greets my morning rising.

By the time I make it back to the bedroom after a trip to the bathroom for morning abulations everything is pretty much where it wants to be for the day. Getting dressed demonstrates that the usual aches and pains are still there and functioning. I take this as a good sign since a friend told me that if I wake up in the morning and nothing hurts to lay back down because I’m dead.

I make our way down the stairs and greet Telly, my trusty canine companion and The Queen who being younger and more spry is always the first one downstairs where she readies the coffee. The sound and smell of the coffee perking that greets us each morning reminds us that she is indeed a benevolent monarch and worthy of her high position.

Donning my coat, Telly and I took our morning walk around the yard visiting all our favorite bushes and posts.

We fed the birds and then

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BROOKS returned to the warmth of our old house. Coffee, warm toast and conversation with The Queen who then got ready for work. After she departed we did our morning chores and then I got a second cup of coffee and settled down to watch a little more of the Today Show before starting our day’s adventures.

The topic for discussion this morning was gun control. Telly lost interest quickly and curled up on his bed for a short nap. I listened for a few minutes and then my mind started to wander as it usually does.

Gun control used to mean you could hit what you were shooting at. I’m a former hunter and an NRA member. I have no qualms about restricting assault rifles.

They were designed for one purpose and they do it very well. Unless you’re planning on shooting people, I see no reason for civilians to have one. Hunting rifles and shotguns aren’t being regulated, background checks won’t restrict the great majority of us.

Criminals will still be able to

get them but criminals usually aren’t using them to massacre large numbers of innocent people. The last criminal massacre I remember was the Valentines Day Massacre in Chicago in the 1930s. Assault rifles make really poor small game weapons, a rabbit or squirrel shot with one doesn’t leave much meat to chew on.

If I were going to stick up a convenient store or a bank, I wouldn’t use an assault rifle because they are so hard to hide. If you use one for big game hunting, do you really need a 30 shot clip? If you do, maybe you ought to take up bowling. Home defense — if your neighborhood is that bad — move.

An old lady with a double barreled shotgun is more frightening than one with an assault rifle. No civilian needs an assault rifle with armor piercing bullets. We need more people regulation to see if we can head off some of these massacres by very sick folks who don’t seem to have much trouble getting their hands on weapons of mass destruction. Having once again solved a major problem of humanity, I woke up Telly and headed for the Post Office.

Thought for the week — I’d kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. — Steven Wright Until next week, may you and yours be happy and well.

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Greene County 2022 rabies clinic schedule CAIRO — The 2022 Rabies Clinics are drive-up only clinics at the Angelo Canna Town Park, Joseph D. Spencer Lane, Cairo. All clinics are held 5-7 p.m. May 18, June 15, Aug. 17, Sept. 14. Call to pre-register at 518-719-3600.

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Public Health Law requires all cats, dogs, and ferrets to be vaccinated for rabies starting at 12 weeks old. If you are feeding a stray, please bring them to be vaccinated.

Hudson High School and St. Mary’s class of 1965 to hold reunion Aug. 20 HUDSON — Hudson High School and St. Mary’s Class of 1965 will hold their class reunion 4-9 p.m. Aug. 20 at Kozels in West Ghent.

The cost of the Buffett/DJ/ Cashbar is $49. A mixer will be held at 6 p.m. Aug. 19 at Kozels. Classmates are welcome to invite two paid guests. The committee is

in search of the following people: Steve Cunningham, Tim Hartlieb, Mary Ann Smith Wanner, Sandra Gordon, Mona Honig, Carol Jennings, Robert Kulikowski, Linda Lasher, Pam Lombardy, Virginia Melius, Pam Mesick, Hugh Monthie, Frank Morrison, Michael Ostoyich, Ray Pomeroy,

Bonnie Proper, Beverly Sheldon, Samuel Scott and Roland Smith. Classmates are asked to update their contact information. Hudson High School classmates can call John Pollack at 518828-7527; St. Mary’s classmates can call Bart Delaney at 518-965-1093.

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Betty Ann Dzelzitis June 22, 1927 - February 25, 2022 Betty Ann Dzelzitis, age 94, died on February 25, 2022.

She was born in Boston on June 22, 1927. Her parents were Charles Franklin Branch, M.D., and Annie Sargent Branch of Waban, Massachusetts.

Betty Ann graduated from the Newton, Massachusetts schools and attended the University of Vermont. After several years of working in Boston, she moved to New York State with her husband, James Garner Allen, where he began his law practice. They had two children, Jennifer Ann Allen and Samuel Sargent Allen. The marriage ended in divorce.

In 1967, Betty Ann married Andrew Dzelzitis, an artist and teacher.

Betty Ann worked for the New York State Division of the American Cancer Society (ACS) for 35 years, starting as a volunteer, then becoming the first executive director of the Columbia County unit and ending her career as Capital Area Executive Director in Albany.

With the help and support of many wonderful volunteers, she expanded the concept of door-to-door crusade to include a chairperson in every town who, in addition to fundraising, reached out with support to cancer patients. These efforts drew the attention of the National ACS, who then appointed her to serve on a task force for the residential crusade, taking her to locations across the country in support of the concept.

She spent 41 years in the Hudson River Valley in Kinderhook, New York.

In 1992, Betty Ann and Andrew retired to “Home Place” in Warren, Vermont—a house that had been in her family since her great grandparents settled there in 1844.

She served on the Warren Public Library board and the Board of Trustees for the Vermont Historical Society.

Following retirement, Betty Ann and her beloved Andrew spent 23 years enjoying each other’s company engaged in treasured conversations while perusing excellent lunches throughout Central Vermont until his death in March of 2010. The couple was married for 43 years.

Betty Ann was known by all for her joyful sense of humor, her intellectual adventurousness, her passion for art, and her love of gardening.

She is survived by her cherished children, Jennifer Ann Allen and her husband Tom Straw, of Branford, Connecticut; Samuel Sargent Allen and his wife, Diane, of Bayside, New York; as well as four grandchildren, Christopher Soloway, Parker Soloway, Hunter Allen, and Ashley Allen; and her dear friend Camilla Ashe Williams Behn.

A celebration of Betty Ann’s life will be held when the lilacs bloom.

James Mahoney Kropp On Thursday Feb. 17th, James “Jimmy” Mahoney Kropp passed away at the age of 79 after a long illness.

He is survived by his wife, Margie, his daughter Diana (DJ) Williams and two grandchildren, Charlie and Stella from Danbury, CT. His siblings Carl (Mary) Kropp of Elizaville, NY John Kropp of Rensselaerville, NY, Camellia (Robert) Elliott of Rhinebeck, NY and Margaret (Robert) Martel of Myrtle Beach, SC. He is predeceased by his daughter Linda Marie Kropp, parents Carl and Camellia Kropp, and sister-in-law Carol Kropp.

He was born in Yonkers, NY and spent his formative years in Elizaville, NY. He enjoyed and excelled in his 24 year career with Verizon (NY Tel) as a telephone technician, installer and lineman in Westchester and New York City.

James was especially proud of his country house that he rebuilt so much on his own. He loved the serenity and peacefulness it brought to him and his family. He was an innovator and a craftsman and could fix anything.

A gregarious person, true friend and good neighbor he had a kind word and a joke for everyone. He will be greatly missed by those who knew him and loved him.

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Congressman Chris Jacobs highlights business background, government experience

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Congressman Chris L. Jacobs said he wants to see small businesses come back strong in upstate New York, and if reelected to Congress he said he would work to pass policies that would spur that along.

Rep. Jacobs, R-Orchard Park, currently serves New York’s 27th Congressional District, focused on Western New York and Buffalo. Now, he’s running for office in the newly drawn 24th District, which stretches from Niagara Falls in Erie County to the Thousand Islands in Jefferson County.

The 55-year-old Western New York native owns a real estate development company, which he started 20 years ago.

“It focuses principally on renovating and bringing back to life older buildings that have been underutilized and placing small businesses, startup businesses, in those spaces,” he said in an interview Monday.

Rep. Jacobs also has a long tenure in politics, from the local to the national level.

He worked for former Western New York Congressman Jack F. Kemp when he was Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for President George H.W. Bush in the 1990s.

There, he worked on policies meant to encourage homeownership for people living in public housing, and to encourage resident management of their own public housing developments. He worked there for about five years.

“I always knew I wanted to come back home to Western New York and apply some of the things I learned during my time with Mr. Kemp,” Rep. Jacobs said.

When he returned to the Buffalo region, Rep. Jacobs got involved in the BISON Children’s Scholarship Fund, a private organization that advocates for school choice. It provides low-income families with scholarships to allow their children to attend private and religious schools. Rep. Jacobs was there when the fund began in 1995 and remains on the board.

“I’ve always believed that all families should have access to high-quality and religious-based education if the parents want that, regardless of where they live or their economic situation,” Rep. Jacobs said.

He said that involvement in education convinced him to run for school board in Buffalo. At the time, the school district was spending about $23,000 per child annually, and he said the results just weren’t there.

“I did not think we were getting our money’s worth,” he said.

At the time, public school teachers in Buffalo had free cosmetic surgery included in their employment contract, a leftover from a 1970s-era agreement. Botox, liposuction, hair removal and various other small procedures were completely free to teachers, paid for by the school district’s health plan. Rep. Jacobs, then a school board member, was quoted in the Buffalo News accusing the teachers union of abusing the agreement.

“We were spending about $13 million a year on that, and I thought that was an exorbitant amount of money taken away from the classroom,” he said Monday.

According to the Buffalo News, that cosmetic surgery coverage ended in 2019, when it was estimated to cost the district about $5 million annually on average.

From April 2006 to Jan. 2007, Rep. Jacobs was Secretary of State for New York

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under Gov. George E. Pataki, around the same time he served on the Buffalo school board.

But Rep. Jacobs had more to say about his time as Erie County clerk, from 2012 to 2017. He took office directly after Gov. Kathy C. Hochul left the position to go to Congress.

“My defining activities as county clerk was in the pistol permit division, because soon after I was elected the SAFE Act was passed,” he said.

The SAFE Act is New York’s gun control law that widened the definition of assault weapons, limited magazine sizes, and included a now-dormant requirement for gun sellers to run background checks on people purchasing ammunition.

“I became a very outspoken critic on (the SAFE Act),” Rep. Jacobs said. “I thought it was an unconstitutional law.”

He said there were provisions in the law, like the requirement that mental healthcare providers inform police if they believe their patient is likely to engage in harmful behavior involving a gun, that were both ineffective and violations of citizens’ privacy.

Rep. Jacobs said he is advocating for legislation in Congress to invalidate the SAFE Act. The congressman was most recently a state senator for the 60th District, representing areas in and around Buffalo. He resigned from that position in July of 2020, after he won a special election to his current seat in Congress.

Overall, he said he considers himself a businessman first and a politician second.

“I think I bring a private sector perspective, but understanding how government is different in terms of getting things done,” he said. “I intend to get things done for this region.”

He said his politics are staunchly conservative, and he will work to combat the influence of the far-left wing of the Democratic party, which he said has taken over their entire party.

Mr. Jacobs said he overall supports the agenda of former President Donald J. Trump, especially the southern border wall, his economic policies and his international relations.

“I believe he really built up our country, built the strongest economy we’ve seen in decades, secured our southern border, projected strength abroad,” the congressman said.

Rep. Jacobs said he

believes prosperity needs to be brought back to the Lake Ontario shoreline district he hopes to represent, and pass legislation at the federal and local levels to stop the population losses the region has seen.

Rep. Jacobs said he’s long been familiar with lakeshore problems, representing a portion of the Lake Ontario shoreline in NY-27. Now that he will represent almost all the lakeshore land New York has, as well as a good portion of the St. Lawrence Seaway, Rep. Jacobs said he will continue to push for solutions to flooding issues, investment in shoreline resiliency and keeping the waterways clean and environmentally diverse.

“There are concerns about issues like planting windmills in the lake, which is something I’m not for,” he said.

Agriculture is also an issue with which Mr. Jacobs said he’s familiar. He’s a member of the House Agriculture Committee as well as the House Budget Committee, and he said the district he currently represents is a major agricultural base, and NY-24’s economy will only be stronger on agriculture.

“I fought hard when I got in as a freshman in a special election to get on the (Agriculture) Committee,” he said. “Thanks to (Congresswoman) Elise Stefanik for her advocacy on my side.

That’s put me in a position where I can learn more about it and be in a position to effectively advocate.”

Rep. Jacobs said he is looking forward to working on next year’s Farm Bill, which sets the federal government’s annual investments into the national agricultural market. He said he is hopeful Republicans will have control of the House then, to ensure their priorities are met.

Rep. Jacobs said he is looking forward to learning more about Fort Drum. It’s not the first military post he’s represented, as his current district includes an Air Force Reserve post in Niagara Falls. Fort Drum will be the largest however, and Rep. Jacobs will represent only the western area of the post, while Congresswoman Elise M. Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, represents the majority of the post on the east.

“You have an advocate second to none in Elise Stefanik, and she will still have the majority of the base,” Rep. Jacobs said.

He said he has heard there is concern from locals in and around Fort Drum over the splitting of the base between two congresspeople.

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He said he personally thinks two representatives will be a good thing for the post, however.

“You now have two members advocating for Drum,” he said. “Not just one, but two, and I believe we will be in the majority next year to advocate for Fort Drum.”

The congressman said he will follow Rep. Stefanik’s leadership on Fort Drum-related issues, and is working with her in her capacity as leader of the House Republican Conference to figure out potential committees he could serve on to better advocate for Fort Drum.

“I’m honored, this is an incredible district, and I think we have more in common than we do different, as a district,” he said.

The congressman is currently not a resident of NY24 as it has been adopted, however. His residence is 3.2 miles outside the borders, in a district expected to safely elect a Democrat in November.

“We knew that might happen,” he said. “The district I currently represent has all or part of eight counties, all those counties are in this district.”

Mr. Jacobs has been roundly endorsed by Western New York’s Republican and Conservative county committees. On Tuesday, his campaign announced two endorsements from the Oswego and Cayuga counties’ Republican committees, as well as the Cayuga County Conservative Party.

Those are the eastern-most county committees to endorse Rep. Jacobs thus far in a race that is entirely Republican.

Rep. Jacobs is running for the Republican nomination against Buffalo-area lawyer Todd J. Aldinger, Genevaarea businessman Mario J. Fratto and Olean native Andrew McCarthy. The primary election is set for June 28.

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SOUP SHARING CATSKILL — The Catskill United Methodist Church, 40 Woodland Ave., Catskill, will host ‘Soup Sharing’ 4-7 p.m.

March 5. Choose from a variety of homemade soups to bring home and enjoy. A goodwill offering will be collected to benefit local missions. Call 518-291-3130 for more information.

CORNED BEEF AND CABBAGE DINNER COXSACKIE — The First Reformed Church, 285 Mansion St., Coxsackie, will be serving corned beef and cabbage dinners with dessert 4:30-6 p.m. March 17, take out only, until sold out. Tickets are $15.

Advance ticket purchase preferred. Call 518-731-7503 to order tickets. www.firstreformecoxsackie.com.

CRAFT FESTIVAL SEEKING APPLICANTS RICHMOND SPRINGS — Applications are currently being accepted for the 41st Annual Friendship Craft Festival sponsored by the Church Of Christ Uniting in Richfield Springs. It will take place 9 a.m.-3 p.m. June 11 in Spring Park on Scenic US Route 20.

For information and an application, go to www.rschurchofchristuniting.com, email friendshipcraftfestival@ yahoo.com or call Carla at 315858-1451.

LENTEN SERVICES HUDSON — The TriCounty Lutheran Parish announces the Lenten worship schedule. St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, 1010 Kinderhook St., Valatie, will be hosting a worship service starting at 6 p.m. every Wednesday during Lent starting March 9 through April 13 in person or via Zoom with the following link: https://us02web.zoom. us/j/2529435520.

Visit the TCLParish.org website for location, directions, worship schedules and Zoom live streaming worship service link. Contact the administrative office at 518-758-6526 for pastoral services inquiries or any further information.

FIRST REFORMED CHURCH OF ATHENS ATHENS —The First Reformed Church of Athens, 16 North Church St., Athens, worships at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. All are welcome to join us. Communion is celebrated the first

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Sunday of each month. Senior Choir rehearsal is at 6:30 p.m. each Wednesdays. We ask that singers are vaccinated.

Hudson River Bells rehearsal is at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays.

Masks are worn during rehearsal.

For information, call the church at 518-945-1801.

LIVING FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH MAPLECREST — Living Faith Community Church, 54 Route 56, Maplecrest, welcomes locals and visitors to worship together at 10:30 a.m.

Sunday. Adult Bible Study meets before service at 9:30 a.m. Fellowship meal follows service on the second Sunday of each month. For information, call 518-734-4275.

FIRST REFORMED CHURCH OF COXSACKIE COXSACKIE — The First Reformed Church of Coxsackie, 285 Mansion St., Coxsackie, worships at 9:30 a.m. Sunday.

All are welcome. Communion is celebrated the first Sunday of each month. Sunday School is available during the worship service time. Free Food Fridays provide a meal for anyone at 6 p.m. on the third Friday of each month; www.firstreformecoxsackie.com.

SOUP KITCHEN OPEN CATSKILL — The Camp Grace Inc. Soup Kitchen, located at the First Reformed Church of Catskill, 310 Main St., Catskill, is open noon-1 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.

For information, call Director Lamont Taylor at 518-2497009.

EMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH STUYVESANT FALLS — Emanuel Lutheran Church is located at the junction of US Route 9 and County Route 46 in Stuyvesant Falls. Church services are at 8:30 a.m. Sunday and all are welcome and invited.

ST. MARK’S SECOND EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH HUDSON — St. Mark’s Second Evangelical Lutheran Church, 8 Storm Ave., Hudson, worships 9:30 a.m. Sunday.

Communion is celebrated on the first Sunday of every month with Pastor Stan Webster.

Child care is offered during the service and Sunday school after the service ends. For information, call the Church office at 518-828-9514.

ST. JOHN’S LUTHERAN CHURCH STUYVESANT — St. John’s Lutheran Church, 159 Route 26A, Stuyvesant, has in-person and live online worship services at 10:15 a.m. Sunday.

Sunday School is at 9 a.m. for children 3 and older. Face

masks and social distancing is required at this time. The live broadcasts are on www.facebook.com/St-Johns-Lutheran.

CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL HUDSON — Christ Church Episcopal, 431 Union St., Hudson, worships at 9 a.m.

Sundays in person and live online. Social distancing and face masks required. Live broadcast at 9 a.m. on facebook.com/ChristChurchEpiscopalHudson or at christchurchepiscopalhudson.org.

Midweek Eucharist is held at 12:15 p.m. Wednesdays in the church. For information, call 518-828-1329 or email christchurch1802@gmail.com.

SAINT PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH KINDERHOOK — St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 8 Sylvester St., Kinderhook, Holy Communion in person at 8 and 10 a.m. Sundays. Face masks and distancing required regardless of vaccination status. For information and news, www. saintpaulskinderhook.org/ or follow us on Facebook.

Subscribe to our newsletter: http://eepurl.com/cG4YSv; 518-758-6271 or saintpaulskinderhook@gmail.com.

Office open 1:30-4:30 p.m.

Tuesday-Thursday and by appointment.

KINDERHOOK REFORMED CHURCH KINDERHOOK — The Kinderhook Reformed Church, 21 Broad St., Kinderhook, will have in person and live online Sunday worship include Sunday 8:45 a.m. prayer group 1; 9:30 a.m. worship and youth Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. coffee hour; and 11 a.m. prayer group 2. Weekly Bible studies available. Live broadcast on http://www.youtube. com/channel/UCCTUNikeMHshkf-mqhM-NxCw or www.facebook.com/KinderhookReformedChurch. For information, call 518-7586401 or kinderhookreformedchurch.com.

CLAVERACK REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH CLAVERACK — The Reformed Dutch Church, 88 Route 9H, Claverack, worships at 9:30 a.m. Sundays in the sanctuary. For information, call 518-851-3811.

GHENT REFORMED CHURCH WEST GHENT — The Ghent Reformed Church, 1039 County Route 22, West Ghent, worships at 9 a.m. Sundays. Sunday School begins at 10:15 a.m. Sunday for pre-school to middle school aged children.

In accordance with the New York state mandate, masks will be required. Cleaning is as diligent as always. Coffee time follows worship.

By Rev. Jacqueline Jefferson, Pastor, Lutheran Parish of Southern Columbia County For Columbia-Greene Media

A READING FROM THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY 26:1-11 When you have come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, and you possess it, and settle in it, you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place that the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for his name. You shall go to the priest who is in office at that time, and say to him, “Today I declare to the LORD your God that I have come into the land that the LORD swore to our ancestors to give us.” When the priest takes the basket from your hand and sets it down before the altar of the LORD your God, you shall make this response before the LORD your God: “A wandering Aramean was my ancestor; he went down into Egypt and lived there as an alien, few in number, and there he became a great nation, mighty and populous. When the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, by imposing hard labor on us, we cried to the LORD, the God of our ancestors; the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.

The LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with a terrifying display of power, and with signs and wonders; and he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. So now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground that you, O LORD, have given me.”

You shall set it down before the LORD your God and bow down before the LORD your God. Then you, together with the Levites and the aliens who reside among you, shall celebrate with all the bounty that the LORD your God has given to you and to your house.

A READING FROM PAUL’S LETTER TO THE ROMANS 10:8B-13 “The word is near you, on your lips and in your heart”, (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); because if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For one believes with the heart and

so is justified, and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved. The scripture says, “No one who believes in him will be put to shame.”

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all and is generous to all who call on him. For, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. LUKE CHAPTER 4:1-13 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished. The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become a loaf of bread.”

Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘One does not live by bread alone.’ ” Then the devil led him up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. And the devil said to him, “To you I will give their glory and all this authority; for it has been given over to me, and I give it to anyone I please. If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.”

Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.’ ” Then the devil took him to Jerusalem, and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, saying to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you, to protect you,’ and ‘On their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.’ ” Jesus answered him, “It is said, ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’ ” When the devil had finished every test, he departed from him until an opportune time.

SERMON Temptation! The evil one has prepared well, and appeals to every human weakness and most threatening of all, implies the question: “IF” you are who you claim to be, striking at the very heart of identity, the soul of being!

What can be worse, more deadly to the human experience, than to have someone, anyone, connive to insinuate that you really don’t exist?

After Jesus glorious experience of Divine affirmation at his Baptism, finally sure that he is following his path, on the road to his destiny, evil seizes upon his certainty to

destroy his mission, to pervert his sense of purpose, to annihilate Him! At any point, this attempt at psychological manipulation would have been devastating, but weakened by forty days fasting in the desert, alone and utterly vulnerable, Jesus is an easy target. Have you ever thought of him that way?

It’s all too easy for us to take this opportunity to paint a picture of Jesus as a kind of super hero, to lean too heavily into his divinity, and to all but obliterate his humanity. In assuming that Jesus can and did use extraordinary means to refuse temptation, and soundly defeat the evil one, we create a scenario not unlike a video game, or epic novel, in which the “hero” walks away from the fight perfectly groomed and smelling like a rose, not a scratch on him. But is that really why Luke and the folks who decided what was important to keep have preserved this experience for us?

What if we reframe our image of Jesus, and take a very uncomfortable step beyond our assumption that the good guy always wins anyway, especially if he is God? What if we allow ourselves for a moment to consider the reality of what would have happened if Jesus had succumbed to temptation?

What if we take Jesus off that pedestal that we prefer he remain on, and let him stand beside us, sharing what it was really like to feel it all, to deeply experience humanity, in all its weakness, fragility, and fear?

It’s only then, with Jesus starving, parched, sweating, exhausted, and none too clean, after forty days of soul searching, and contemplating his future, that we can begin to see our own reality.

That into each life, just as our way becomes clear, temptation to doubt, derail, and even surrender to our fears that we’re not who we think we are, or even hope to be, threatens God’s intention for us. At each juncture along the way of our life journey, there is an “opportune time” for evil to insinuate itself, and attempt to destroy the dream of who we are becoming, the Image and Likeness of God. But with this story imprinted on our spirits, we can remember and draw strength from the Word become flesh, flesh just like ours, who overcomes so that we can and will, each and every time! Amen.

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Church of Saint Patrick 21 Main Street, Ravena, NY 12143 • (518) 756-3145 https://churchofsaintpatrick.wixsite.com/church-ravena

24 North Washington Street, Athens 12015 · 943-3150 66 William Street, Catskill 12414 · 943-3150

518 756 8764 • Rt. 144 and Church St. NBRChurch@aol.com • www.nbrchurch.org

Rev. Rick L. Behan, Pastor

Fr. Joseph O’Brien, Parochial Vicar

Sunday Worship - 9:30 AM Communion First Sunday every month Fellowship before and after worship Thursday - Choir Rehearsal 4:45 PM Tuesday - Bible Study 10:00 AM 2nd Sunday - Helping Hands 10:30 AM

Weekend Masses: Saturday Vigil 4:30 p.m. Sunday 9:30 a.m. (also St. Patrick’s YouTube channel or Mid-Hudson 901) Weekday Mass: Tuesday 8:30 a.m.

Also Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 8:30-9 a.m. Wed, Thurs Food Pantry Hours: Tues & Fri 10–11 a.m. and Wed 6–7 p.m.

Thrift Shop Hours: Thurs 1 – 3 p.m. Sat from 9 a.m. – Noon

Come to the Church in the Hamlet! Working together since 1833

You Are Welcome Here!

Janine O’Leary, Parish Life Coordinator Fr. Michael Melanson, Parochial Vicar Saturday* 4:00 p.m. *1st / 3rd Athens and 2nd / 4th Catskill Sunday 8:45 a.m. Catskill / 10:45 a.m. Athens

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St. Mary’s Church 80 Mansion Street, Coxsackie, NY 12051 (518) 731-8800 • stmaryscoxsackie.com

Fr. Joseph O’Brien, Parochial Vicar Weekend Masses: Sunday 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.

11:30 a.m. Mass is livestreamed at St. Mary’s YouTube Channel Weekday Mass: Wednesday 8 a.m.

Also Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 8-8:30 a.m. Mon & Tues

You Are Welcome Here!

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COMING UP ASHLAND — The Windham Rotary, through their foundation, The Windham Rotary Foundation, is hosting the Cancer Patient Aid Car Show Aug. 14 at the Ashland Town Park, 12187 Route 23, Ashland. Pre-registration is $10 now through April 15.

Day of show registration is $15.

The show is will be held rain or shine. For information, call 518734-7303 ext. 2 or 518-291-0883 or https://www.facebook.com/ events/676104473772374. Preregistration forms can be printed off the GCWL website at http:// greenecountywomensleague. com/2022/01/cancer-patientaid-car-show-2/

MARCH 5 CAIRO — Round Top Volunteer Fire Dept. Ladies Auxiliary third annual corned beef and cabbage dinner will be served 3-6 p.m.; March 5, take out only, at the Round Top Firehouse, 1507 Hearts Content Road, Cairo. The menu includes corned beef, cabbage, red potatoes, carrots, soda bread and dessert. The cost is $18. To pre-order, call Lorrie at 518-719-1685. Snow date will be March 12.

SELKIRK — The Bethlehem Grange 137, 24 Bridge St., Selkirk, is hosting a corned beef and cabbage dinner 3-6 p.m. March 5, take out only. The menu includes corned beef, cabbage, Irish soda bread and dessert. Reserve meals

by March 3 by calling Carol Carpenter at 518-421-1384. Make sure your phone number is displayed for a return confirmation call back. The grange is handicap accessible and there is lots of parking.

MARCH 10 CAIRO — The Kapelle of

CCE Ulster new and beginning farmer series

Concordia University Chicago, under the direction of Dr. Charles P. Brown, will present “Created-Redeemed-Blessed,” a concert at 7 p.m. March 10 at Resurrection Lutheran Church, 186 Main St., Cairo, as part of the ensemble’s spring tour to the eastern US. The concert is open to the public, and admission is free. A free will offering will be accepted to benefit the choir.

EAST BERNE — Helderberg Christian School, 96 Main St., East Berne, will hold a Brooks House of Barbecue fundraiser 4-6:30 p.m. March 10 or until sold out. Chicken dinner, $13 pre-ordered; $14 day of. Call by March 8 to pre-order. Drive through, take out only. Call 518-499-5416. COVID guidelines apply.

CASTLETON — The Rensselaer-Columbia-Greene Counties Board of Cooperative Educational Services will meet at 6:30 p.m.

March 1 in-person in the Administrative Building Conference Center. This meeting will allow virtual attendance for any public and administrators wishing to join via the Zoom link provided on the Questar III Board webpage at https://www.questar. org/about/board-of-education/ meeting-agendas-minutes/.

MARCH 11 COXSACKIE — The Coxsackie-Athens Drama Club presents Into the Woods at 7 p.m. March 11 and March 12 at CoxsackieAthens High School Auditorium, 24 Sunset Blvd., Coxsackie.

Adults, $12; students, $6.

DELMAR — Q.U.I.L.T. Inc. is a not-for-profit guild of quilters interested in learning about the art of making quilts. The Annual Service Meeting will be held at 9:30 a.m. March 11 at the Delmar Reformed Church, 386 Delaware Ave., Delmar. At this meeting we will assemble quilts to be donated to those in need. Masks are required. All are welcome.

Visit www.quiltinc.org for more details.

KINGSTON — Centrally located in the Mid-Hudson/ Catskill region of New York State, Ulster County is home to a diverse array of agricultural enterprises and a long agricultural history. The fertile valleys of Ulster County have been cultivated for over 700 years, and the region was one of the earliest major agricultural areas in the United States, producing food for local populations, New York City, and export markets.

Each year CCE Ulster hosts the New and Beginning Farmer Series. A collection of 1 hour workshops that help new and aspiring farmers get started! All Classes will be held online via Zoom and cost $5 each. Register for the classes online.

Unintentional Consequences 1-2 p.m. March 10.

What is THAT? To Weed or not to Weed? New fields and gardens can contain many different uninvited plants, aka weeds. During this session Master Gardener Volunteer Barbara Bravo will identify some of them and learn why we should be concerned.

Hear about some of the most common exotic, non-native plants, as well as destructive insects and an aquatic invasive weed in our water ways.

Barbara Bravo is a dedicated gardener with more than 30 years’ experience reclaiming neglected gardens as well as establishing new beds and an enclosed vegetable garden at her home in Quarryville, Saugerties. Quarryville, as you might guess from its name, is a challenging environment located a short distance from a defunct shale quarry. She has been a Master

Gardener Volunteer for the past 17 years and has lectured on many gardening topics.

Introduction to Regenerative Agriculture & the Regenerative Organic Certification 1:30-3 p.m. March 17. Participants will be introduced to the concept of “regenerative agriculture,” including potential practices (e.g., cover crops) and outcomes (.e.g, carbon sequestration) and learn about the requirements and process for obtaining organic and regenerative organic certification (ROC).

Guest speakers: Katy Williams, the operations manager for Regenerative Organic Certified (ROC), and Caitlin Tucker, the New York region organic consultant with Rodale Institute.

Climate Change and Agriculture 2-3 p.m. March 24. Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County is hosting two guest speakers on climate change. The first speaker is Allison Chatrchyan a Sr. Research Associate at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, and the main campus focal point for the Cornell Climate Stewards Program.

Allison will provide a general overview of climate change, as well as the science behind it, including the projected global temperature (RCP Values) graph.

The second speaker is Jenna Walczak an Ag Climate Resiliency Specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Harvest New York team. She works with extension staff to assist farmers in implementing practices to mitigate climate change and reduce its impact on New York State farms. Jenna will talk about

the impact of climate change on agriculture in the Hudson Valley. Some growers in the Hudson Valley view climate change as a positive. They can now bring to full maturity crops, that 20 or 30 years ago, would not mature in this region. Jenna will explain why the changing climate is a concern and its effects on crop maturity. She will also present how weather extremes are linked to climate change, a fact that many often overlook.

Seriously Soil 1-3 p.m.

March 31. Master Gardener coordinator Dona Crawford will delve into the whys and hows of soil tests and analysis, the best soils for vegetable crop, and how to improve the soil you have. She’ll talk soil sources and blends, and tips for raised beds. Agriculture Program Administrative Assistant Courtney Churchill will review the process for commercial soil testing.

How to Make a Profit and Still Have a Good Quality of Life 2-3 p.m. April 7. Steve Hadcock, of the Capital Area Agriculture and Horticulture Program, will talk about the business of getting started in farming, focusing on the quality of life of farmers. It’s important for farmers to find a balance between work (i.e. farming) and life (i.e. their family). All too often, farmers think that if they open another location (e.g. farm stand) or plant more crops, that they will see increased profits. Steve will explain how that concept isn’t always correct, and that farmers may be losing money, as well as quality of life (i.e., missing out on family time).

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Agroforestry 1-2:30 p.m. April 14. Participants will be introduced to the concept of agroforestry and learn the practicalities of converting pasture land to silvopasture through real examples in the Northeastern United States.

Guest speaker: Austin Unruh is the owner of Crow and Berry Land Management which works to bring silvopasture to scale in agricultural economies and focuses on transitioning pastures into silvopastures.

Introduction to Climate Resilience 1-2 p.m. April 21.

Resilience is not what you think! Join Laura Lengnick, Glynwood’s Director of Agriculture, to learn how awardwinning sustainable, regenerative and organic farmers and ranchers in New York and beyond are using resilience thinking to manage the growing risks caused by changing weather patterns as well as other kinds of disturbances and shocks. Come to this session if you want to add some practical new tools to your climate resilience toolbox. Although this program is hosted

by CCE of Ulster County’s New and Beginning Farmer program, farmers of all kinds will benefit from taking the time to learn more about how to manage climate risk.

Farm to School 101 1-2 p.m. April 24. Katie SheehanLopez, the Regional Farm to School Coordinator for the Upper Hudson Valley, will cover the basics of selling to schools, including the school food procurement process, the NYS 30% Initiative, and opportunities for local farms to engage with schools.

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C-A, ICC capture Section II championships

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RENSSELAER — The Coxsackie Athens Riverhawks defeated Voorheesville, 3-2, to win the Section II Class C boys volleyball championship on Thursday at Rensselaer High School.

Both teams came out very strong and ready to play.

Each set and each point was well earned. Throughout each set, the teams went back and forth, point for point.

Voorheesville pulled out the win in the first set, 25-23.

In the second set, the battle began once again, but Voorheesville kept its intensity and won, 25-21.

In the third set, ready more than ever to take the win, the Riverhawks came out strong and won, 25-21.

Determined to continue strong, C-A won the fourth set, 25-22. Moving on to the heated fifth set the Riverhawks won, 15-10, to take home the Section II Class C boys volleyball championship.

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Coxsackie-Athens won the Section II Class C boys volleyball championship on Thursday with a 3-2 victory over Voorheesville at Rensselaer High School.

37 assists, 8 digs, 2 aces and 3 kills; Robert Rebusman

had 3 kills and 1 dig; Brandon Morehouse had 10 kills,

2 blocks, 2 aces and 4 digs; Matt Clark had 5 kills, 4

blocks and 2 digs; Nick Agovino had 9 kills, 2 blocks and

1 dig; Lance Hoovler had 2 aces, 15 kills, 1 block and 4 digs; Anthony Patti had 1 ace and 5 digs.

CLASS B Ichabod Crane 3, Catskill 1 RENSSELAER — Ichabod Crane won its third straight Section II Class B boys volleyball championship on Thursday with a 3-1 victory over Catskill at Rensselaer High School.

The Riders advance to the state regionals and will play Section III champion Chittenango on Saturday at 1 p.m. at Maple Hill High School.

Ichabod Crane (18-2) swept the first two games, 25-20 and 25-21, dropped the third, 25-11, but came back to win the fourth, 25-17, to wrap up the championship.

For ICC: Paul Zietsman 25 kills and 5 blocks; Erik Holmberg 42 assists and 1 ace; Topher Pelesz 13 kills and 4 digs; Luke Desmonie 6 kills and 1 block; Caden Tiernan 4 kills, 1 block and 1 ace.

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NEW YORK — When you want to catch a thief, watch their hands, not their mouth.

“The concerns of our fans are at the very top of our consideration list,” Major League Baseball

commissioner Rob Manfred said earlier this week, in the same breath he announced the senseless postponement of opening day.

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VALATIE — The last time Ichabod Crane played for a Section II boys basketball title, Lyndon B. Johnson was President of the United States, the price of gas was 33 cents per gallon and The Beatles ruled the music world.

All of that is ancient history now, though, as the Riders will be making their first finals appearance in 55 years on Saturday when they play Colonial Council rival Catholic Central for the Section II Class B championship at 12:30 p.m. at Cool Insuring Arena in Glens Falls.

“It’s a special feeling,” Ichabod Crane coach Will Ferguson said. “As we discussed with our players after the game on Wednesday, the school history they made by making it to the finals. For me, this is really special. I have been to quarterfinals and semi-finals five times previously.

“I have the dubious distinction to be the only coach to have lost semi-final games to both Jimmer Fredette and JG3. So to make it to the finals this time after so many tries is an awesome feeling. I’m especially proud of what the players have accomplished this year.”

Ichabod Crane (16-7) has caught fire at the perfect time. After stumbling out of the gate with a 3-5 record to start the season, the Riders have won 13 of 15 games, including victories over Catskill (69-45), Greenville (88-54) and Schuylerville (77-64) in the postseason.

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Ichabod Crane’s Alex Schmidt (5) drives against Catholic Central’s Gabe Lammon during their Colonial Council game on February 1.

Boeheim plans to return next season Josh St. Croix Watertown Daily Times

Jim Boeheim is discussing his future approaching the final game of his 46th regular season as Syracuse University men’s basketball head coach.

Boeheim reiterated through a series of radio interviews this week that he will coach the Orange next year but stated that he and SU have a private succession plan in place upon his eventual retirement. He did not divulge any details on the timeline or candidates.

Boeheim called into the local ESPN-Syracuse radio show “On the Block with Brent Axe,” soon after it took the air Wednesday evening to respond to a column published by the host and other recent chatter after he was asked about his coaching future following SU’s 97-72 loss to Duke on Feb. 26.

Syracuse (15-15 overall, 9-10 Atlantic Coast Conference) will host Miami (21-9, 13-5) at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Carrier Dome. The regular-season finale will be televised on ESPNU. The Orange has never finished with a losing record under Boeheim, who initially stated on preseason media day that he intended to coach at least through next season as he had promised recruits.

“I think if I said ‘I’m quitting now,’ after giving my word to these players, to me it would look like: ‘Oh, Boeheim had a bad year, so he’s

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just going to quit,’ that’s what it would look like to me, maybe not to you or somebody else, but

that’s what I would see,” Boeheim said during his impromptu radio call-in.

“The bottom line is I’m going to coach, I’m not going to tell you or anybody when this (successor plan) is going to be (announced), we have a plan in place, a good plan, an ironclad plan,” he later added. “It’s not my decision, I’m not naming the coach like people say all the time.”

The 77-year-old Hall of Fame coach followed up on other radio spots Thursday, including a national ESPN audience on the “Keyshawn, JWill & Max,” show.

After discussing memories of Mike Krzyzewski and USA Basketball with former Duke point guard, Jay Williams, Boeheim was asked about the plan he referenced the day prior.

“We have had a bad year, I’m not used to that, and our fans aren’t, but certainly you don’t want to walk away because you have a bad year, you want to try to right the ship,” Boeheim said.

“So, we have a good plan, all businesses have a plan, we have a good plan in place that I’m very comfortable with and we’ll see how it unfolds in the future.”

He stated later in the show: “Coaching is not playing, you’re just telling people what to do, a guy like Warren Buffett is still doing what he’s doing because he’s not running anywhere, he’s just making decisions, as long as you can make decisions, you should be able to coach, but I’m near that point in time. I’m glad we have a plan See BOEHEIM B5

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Pro basketball NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic W L Pct Philadelphia 38 23 .623 Boston 38 27 .585 Toronto 34 28 .548 Brooklyn 32 32 .500 New York 25 37 .403 Central W L Pct Chicago 39 24 .619 Milwaukee 38 25 .603 Cleveland 36 26 .581 Indiana 22 42 .344 Detroit 16 47 .254 Southeast W L Pct Miami 42 22 .656 Charlotte 31 33 .484 Atlanta 30 32 .484 Washington 28 33 .459 Orlando 15 48 .238 Western Conference Northwest W L Pct Utah 39 22 .639 Denver 36 26 .581 Minnesota 34 29 .540 Portland 25 37 .403 Oklahoma City 20 42 .323 Pacific W L Pct Phoenix 50 12 .806 Golden State 43 20 .683 L.A. Clippers 33 31 .516 L.A. Lakers 27 34 .443 Sacramento 24 41 .369 Southwest W L Pct Memphis 43 21 .672 Dallas 38 25 .603 New Orleans 26 36 .419 San Antonio 24 39 .381 Houston 15 47 .242 Thursday’s games Atlanta 130, Chicago 124 Boston 120, Memphis 107 Miami 113, Brooklyn 107 Detroit 108, Toronto 106 Dallas 122, Golden State 113 Sacramento 115, San Antonio 112 L.A. Lakers at L.A. Clippers, 10 p.m.

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

Cleveland at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Atlanta at Washington, 7 p.m.

Milwaukee at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.

Orlando at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

Utah at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

Houston at Denver, 9 p.m.

New York at Phoenix, 10 p.m.

Saturday’s games Sacramento at Dallas, 5 p.m.

San Antonio at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Miami, 8 p.m.

Orlando at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Portland at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Golden State at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

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NEW YORK — Two-time NBA championship-winning head coach Erik Spoelstra still believes the Nets have enough time to build the chemistry needed to win a championship this season. And in the first half of Kevin Durant’s return to the rotation after a month-and-a-half nursing a sprained MCL, you could see why.

The ball whipped around the floor to the tune of 19 first-half assists, Durant looked unstoppable with 17 early points and the Nets -- without Kyrie Irving (ineligible to play in New York City), Ben Simmons (back tightness) and Joe Harris (season-ending ankle surgery) -- made early work of a Miami Heat team short three of their best players in Jimmy Butler, Kyle Lowry and gritty two-way wing P.J. Tucker.

But the Heat are the Eastern Conference’s No. 1 seed for a number of reasons, and here are two of them: chemistry and continuity. Where they lacked talent, they compensated with a level of cohesion that wasn’t enough for the Nets to overcome at the Barclays Center, spoiling Durant’s long-awaited return with a 113-107 come-from-behind victory.

It was a game the Nets needed to have, and they fumbled a 16-point second-quarter lead on their way further down the standings.

“This is a game we should win,” said interim coach Jacque Vaughn, who will return to the bench when Steve Nash clears the health and safety protocols on Saturday. “We told our guys that after the game. We should feel disappointed. We should have won this

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Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Durant (7) shoots as Miami Heat center Dewayne Dedmon (21) and Caleb Martin (16) look on during the second half at Barclays Center on Thursday.

game.”

Which is why it’s hard to believe the Nets will have enough time to put this group project together in time for the playoffs. And it’s why the Heat remain a nightmare playoff matchup for the Nets, who would draw No. 1 Miami in the first round as the eighth seed if the postseason began today.

Thursday marked the 36th different starting lineup the Nets have used this season. Sunday will mark the 37th, when Irving and Durant start alongside newly acquired big man Andre

Drummond for the first time this season.

The Nets have relied on Durant’s greatness all season long, and for good reason: He is a two-time NBA Finals MVP, a perennial contender for league Most Valuable Player and is coming off a summer where the entire world touted him as the best basketball player on the planet after he led Team USA to a gold medal.

Can he save these Nets, who spiraled from first to eighth and lost 16 of their 21 games without him?

“I don’t look at myself as that, as a savior,” Durant said at shootaround Thursday morning. “But I know what I can do and how much I can help this team and what we’re missing as a group, but I’m not trying to go out there and win a game by myself tonight or make it all about me. I just try to go out there and help and be a good teammate and do what I do. I know what I bring to the table and try to do it to the best of my abilities.”

Durant finished with 31 points on 10-of-21 shooting in his first game back since the Jan. 15 MCL sprain. He made seven of his first 11 shots in the first half, but went cold in the third quarter, missing five shots, opening a road for the Heat to go on a run.

As Durant went, so did the Nets. Miami outscored Brooklyn 28-17 in the third period, erasing a double-digits first-half deficit. Bruce Brown added 21 points and Patty Mills scored 14 off the bench on 4-of-5 shooting from downtown, but without Irving, it wasn’t enough.

Which, again, is concerning, given the Heat played on Thursday without three of their best players and their wild-card scorer and playmaker, Victor Oladipo.

Spoelstra thinks the Nets still have enough time to put it together, but his team’s shorthanded victory over the early-season championship favorites says otherwise.

“They have a bunch of savvy veteran players,” the Heat coach said ahead of tipoff on Thursday. “They’ll have enough time to get on the same page. If it were a younger team, then maybe it’d be a little bit different.”

NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT SO Pts Florida 54 36 13 2 3 77 Tampa Bay 53 35 12 2 4 76 Toronto 54 35 15 3 1 74 Boston 54 32 18 2 2 68 Detroit 54 24 24 5 1 54 Ottawa 53 19 29 4 1 43 Buffalo 55 17 30 7 1 42 Montreal 54 13 34 7 0 33 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT SO Pts Carolina 54 37 12 5 0 79 Pittsburgh 56 34 14 3 5 76 NY Rangers 54 34 15 3 2 73 Washington 56 29 18 7 2 67 Columbus 54 28 25 0 1 57 NY Islanders 51 20 23 3 5 48 New Jersey 54 19 30 1 4 43 Philadelphia 54 16 28 6 4 42 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT SO Pts Colorado 54 40 10 3 1 84 St. Louis 53 32 15 4 2 70 Minnesota 52 32 17 0 3 67 Nashville 54 30 20 2 2 64 Dallas 53 30 20 1 2 63 Winnipeg 54 24 21 5 4 57 Chicago 54 19 27 6 2 46 Arizona 53 14 35 0 4 32 Pacific Division GP W L OT SO Pts Calgary 52 32 14 6 0 70 Los Angeles 55 29 19 5 2 65 Vegas 54 30 20 3 1 64 Edmonton 54 30 21 3 0 63 Anaheim 56 26 21 5 4 61 Vancouver 56 27 23 3 3 60 San Jose 54 24 24 4 2 54 Seattle 56 17 34 4 1 39 Thursday’s games Pittsburgh 5, Tampa Bay 1 Florida 3, Ottawa 0 Minnesota 5, Philadelphia 4 Washington 4, Carolina 0 Vancouver 4, NY Islanders 3 Edmonton at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Boston at Vegas, 9 p.m.

Montreal at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Colorado at Arizona, 9 p.m.

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

Detroit at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.

New Jersey at NY Rangers, 7 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Carolina, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles at Columbus, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.

Vegas at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

Saturday’s games St. Louis at NY Islanders, 12:30 p.m.

Chicago at Philadelphia, 3 p.m.

Ottawa at Arizona, 4 p.m.

Detroit at Florida, 6 p.m.

Montreal at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Seattle at Washington, 7 p.m.

Boston at Columbus, 7 p.m.

Nashville at San Jose, 8 p.m.

Calgary at Colorado, 10 p.m.

GF GA 221 161 183 151 198 157 161 146 160 194 137 169 148 196 127 206 GF GA 185 130 183 149 162 137 180 156 179 196 131 146 167 197 135 189 GF GA 218 153 191 146 196 166 166 155 155 154 163 166 134 185 122 195 GF GA 182 125 162 157 175 157 179 171 165 172 158 161 143 168 144 199

College basketball THURSDAY’S SCORES MEN EAST Boston U 76, Loyola (MD) 64 Canisius 78, Marist 67 Colgate 96, Bucknell 68 Fairfield 65, Rider 59 Lehigh 91, Army 77 Liberty 52, Lipscomb 47 Manhattan 74, Iona 72 Massachusetts Lowell 83, Hartford 73 Monmouth-NJ 75, Quinnipiac 72 Morgan St. 63, Coppin St. 59 Navy 71, American U. 64 Niagara 74, Siena 52 Norfolk State 83, Howard 61 Northern Kentucky 77, Detroit Mercy 59 SOUTH Abilene Christian 80, Dixie State 64 Alabama A&M 71, Grambling State 63 Florida Atlantic 71, Florida International 51 Houston 84, Temple 46 Jacksonville 79, Central Arkansas 69 Jacksonville St. 78, Kennesaw St. 67 Little Rock 75, South Alabama 71 North Texas 59, Texas-San Antonio 48 Sam Houston St. 69, Tarleton State 50 Southern Methodist 76, Cincinnati 71 Tulane 82, Central Florida 67 UL Lafayette 67, Texas-Arlington 64 MIDWEST Arkansas St. 81, UL Monroe 77 Bellarmine 81, Florida Gulf Coast 68 Illinois 60, Penn St. 55 Illinois St. 58, Indiana St. 53 Kansas 72, Texas Christian 68 Ohio St. 80, Michigan St 69 Wright St. 75, Oakland 63 WEST Arizona State 71, California 44 WOMEN EAST Charleston 75, Hofstra 35 Davidson 66, Richmond 62 Delaware 85, Towson 71 Drexel 80, James Madison 60 Fairfield 65, Rider 61 Fairleigh Dickinson 65, Sacred Heart 48 Florida State 63, Boston College 58 Fordham 66, George Mason 50 George Washington 64, La Salle 54 LIU 48, Bryant 47 Maryland-Eastern Shore 66, Delaware State 48 Morgan St. 53, Coppin St. 47 Mount St. Mary’s 61, St. Francis (PA) 48 Niagara 66, Iona 50, OT Norfolk State 62, Howard 58 Saint Joseph’s 65, Duquesne 49 Siena 69, Saint Peter’s 58 St. Francis (BKN) 71, Central Conn. St. 62 Virginia Tech 82, Clemson 60 Wagner 79, Merrimack 67

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Ben Chiarot scored his second goal of the game at 1:03 of overtime and the visiting Montreal Canadiens knocked off the Calgary Flames 5-4 on Thursday.

Mike Hoffman tallied a goal and three assists, Nick Suzuki had a goal and two assists, and Andrew Hammond made 30 saves for Montreal, which has won six of seven.

Andrew Mangiapane recorded a goal and two assists; Blake Coleman, Johnny Gaudreau and Elias Lindholm also scored; and Jacob Markstrom made 30 saves for the Flames, who had won 12 of 13.

Hoffman scored with 2:45 left to give the Canadiens a 4-3 lead, but Lindholm tied it 4-4 with 28 seconds left and Markstrom pulled for the extra skater.

Canucks 4, Islanders 3 Nils Hoglander and Vasily Podkolzin scored the tying and winning goals just 45 seconds apart around the midway point of the third period as visiting Vancouver edged New York in Elmont, N.Y. The go-ahead sequence began with Podkolzin briefly turning the puck over to Scott Mayfield at center ice. But Bo Horvat picked off a pass by Mayfield and battled the Islanders’ defenseman before passing to Podkolzin, who bore down on Varlamov and fired a shot from the right faceoff circle.

Brad Hunt and J.T. Miller scored in the second for the Canucks, who have won four of five. Noah Dobson and Kyle Palmieri scored in the second and Anthony Beauvillier collected a go-ahead goal early in the third for the Islanders, who lost for the eighth time in 11 games (3-4-2).

Bruins 5, Golden Knights 2 Craig Smith had a hat trick and Jeremy Swayman made 34 saves to lead Boston over Vegas.

It was the third hat trick and 22nd multi-point game of Smith’s career. David Pastrnak scored two goals and Trent Frederic added a careerhigh three assists. Swayman improved to 6-0-1 over the last seven starts, allowing two goals or less in all of them.

Jack Eichel and Jonathan Marchessault each scored

for Vegas, and Robin Lehner made 31 saves.

Wild 5, Flyers 4 Ryan Hartman scored two goals as Minnesota beat host Philadelphia to end a fourgame losing streak.

Frederick Gaudreau, Matt Boldy and Jonas Brodin scored one goal each for the Wild. Kevin Fiala contributed two assists. Cam Talbot made 26 saves.

Scott Laughton had one goal and one assist for the Flyers. Patrick Brown, Travis Konecny and James van Riemsdyk added one goal each. Carter Hart stopped 33 shots.

Panthers 3, Senators 0 Florida scored two thirdperiod goals in 12 seconds – finally solving red-hot Ottawa goalie Anton Forsberg – as the host Panthers defeated the Senators in Sunrise, Fla. Patric Hornqvist and Ryan Lomberg scored those goals in the third, padding a lead provided by Mason Marchment in the first. Sergei Bobrovsky made 18 saves, improving his record to 27-6-3 while earning his second shutout of the season.

But Forsberg, who beat the Panthers earlier this season, stole the show for much of Thursday’s game. He finished with 45 saves.

Coyotes 2, Avalanche 1 Karel Vejmelka made 42 saves, Nick Schmaltz and Loui Eriksson scored and Arizona beat Colorado in Glendale, Ariz.

Devon Toews had a goal, Pavel Francouz stopped 27 shots and Cale Makar added an assist for the 10th straight game for Colorado, which saw its four-game winning streak end. Makar set the Avalanche record for consecutive games with an assist by a defenseman.

The Coyotes, who have alternated losses and wins for the past six games, went ahead early in the third period. Clayton Keller feathered a pass through traffic to Schmaltz as he skated into the Colorado end. Schmaltz went in on Francouz and put a backhander off the goalie’s right pad and in at 5:27 for his 12th goal of the season.

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Dallas Mavericks guard Luka Doncic (77) and guard Spencer Dinwiddie (26) celebrate during the second half against the Golden State Warriors at American Airlines Center on Thursday.

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Luka Doncic exploded for a game-high 41 points and host Dallas, after needing a rally to beat Golden State four days earlier, held onto its own advantage this time for a 122-113 win in Thursday’s rematch.

The Warriors erased a 17-point, third-quarter deficit to tie the game in the fourth quarter before the Mavericks pulled away again. Dorian Finney-Smith scored 18 points for Dallas.

Jordan Poole had 23 points and Stephen Curry put up 21 for the Warriors, who lost a third game in a row for the first time this season.

Clippers 132, Lakers 111 Reggie Jackson scored a season-high 36 points and added nine assists and eight rebounds as the Los Angeles Clippers beat the visiting Los Angeles Lakers for the seventh straight time.

Ivica Zubac had 19 points and nine rebounds as the Clippers swept a four-game season series between the teams for the first time since 2015-16.

LeBron James had 26 points and eight rebounds and Russell Westbrook added 17 points and eight rebounds as the Lakers lost their fourth consecutive game since star Anthony Davis went down with a right foot sprain. They fell for the seventh time in their past eight contests.

Hawks 130,

Bulls 124 Trae Young sank four 3-pointers in the fourth quarter and finished with 39 points as Atlanta registered its first victory over Chicago in four tries this season.

Young shot 11-for-18 from the floor and 7-for-9 from 3-point range while handing out 13 assists as the Hawks won for the fourth time in six games. He scored 16 points in the final quarter. Bogdan Bogdanovic scored 13 of his 20 points in the final quarter, and the Hawks got 18 points from De’Andre Hunter and 17 points from Kevin Huerter.

DeMar DeRozan and Zach LaVine scored 22 points apiece as the Bulls lost third straight.

Nikola Vucevic had 21 points and 11 rebounds, and Ayo Dosunmu and Coby White each scored 15 points.

Celtics 120, Grizzlies 107 Jayson Tatum scored 21 of his 37 points in the fourth quarter as Boston led nearly from start to finish against visiting Memphis to claim its 13th win in 15 games.

Al Horford sank four 3-pointers for the Celtics and finished with 21 points, 15 rebounds and five assists. Marcus Smart had 18 points and 12 assists, and Robert Williams III contributed 10 points and 12 boards.

Continuing a career week, Grizzlies star Ja Morant scored a game-high 38 on 13-of-29 shooting. Morant, who had

scored 46 and 52 points in his prior two contests, put up 30 after halftime on Thursday.

Jaren Jackson added 20 points for Memphis.

Pistons 108, Raptors 106 Jerami Grant scored 16 of his 26 points in the first half and visiting Detroit held on sweep the three-game season series with Toronto for the second straight season.

Cade Cunningham added 22 points and 12 rebounds and had a key block in the final seconds for the Pistons, who led by as many as 18 points in the third quarter. Saddiq Bey scored 23 points for the Pistons, who have won four of their past six games.

Pascal Siakam scored 28 points for the Raptors.

Kings 115, Spurs 112 Harrison Barnes scored 27 points and De’Aaron Fox added 26 as visiting Sacramento outlasted San Antonio to win for the second time in three games.

The Kings were up by 19 points early in the third quarter but gave all that back and more as San Antonio rallied to take a 103-99 lead with 4:04 to play. Sacramento pulled away with a 9-0 run.

Lonnie Walker IV had a season-best 30 points to lead the Spurs, who have lost three straight games. Dejounte Murray added 29 points and 12 rebounds.

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missed action during the first half of the season.

“Once everyone returned from COVID we realized this was a special team,” Ferguson said. “I always felt they could do something special. We spoke from day one about building on each game and progressing toward sectionals. The team has grown and developed to see the same vision as the coaching staff. I am not surprised at what the team has accomplished.”

Leading the Riders into Saturday’s championship game is senior Brett Richards. The 6-5 forward averages 26 points per game and has 19 doubledoubles this season, including 16 in a row. He is coming off a 24-point, 18-rebound performance against Schuylerville in Wednesday’s Class B semifinal.

“Brett is probably the best player I have ever coached,” Ferguson said. “He is technically and fundamentally sound.

His footwork for a big man is outstanding. His game is consistent, he is mentally tough, and he does not rattle under pressure. He is a low maintenance player that knows the game and often discusses other teams’ tendencies with the coaching staff.

“Quite simply, he is our quiet leader by example and gets respect from our players and other players he plays against.

I know this is saying a lot for all the excellent players that have come out of ICC over the years, but he definitely ranks as one of the best.”

Richards is by no means a one-man show, though, as several other players have played key roles in the Riders’ success “Our underclassmen have grown immensely this year.

Each of them has a story in their success. We have some players that did not play last year due to COVID and they have worked hard to make up for the year they missed. We have players returning from serious injuries

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Catholic Central’s Darien Moore (1) and Ichabod Crane’s Dan Warner (33) during their February 1 Colonial Council game.

and are excelling now.

“The best contribution the other players have made is realizing their role and accepting it as their part to make the team a success. Dylan McCrudden has developed into a player that can enter a game and fill in at multiple positions. Two players that have stepped up as leaders are Alex Schmidt and Dan Warner.

Alex has become one of the best young guards in Section II. He has always had athleticism, but has developed his leadership and his court vision and now understands the game when it comes to flow and tempo.

“Dan Warner returned from an early foot injury and has become a dominant player in his own right to compliment Brett in the other forward position.

He has made it tough on other teams when they have tried to double or triple cover Brett.

This team also has the one thing

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that all good teams need to excel and that is team chemistry.”

Saturday’s game will be a true rubber match between the two teams as Ichabod Crane and Catholic Central split their season series, each winning one game.

“The main difference in games was an injury and COVID,” Ferguson said. “In the first game at CCHS (CCHS won by 20), we were without Alex, and Dan Warner had just returned from a foot injury so his play was limited. Game two at ICC (won by ICC) had ICC with a full roster.”

Catholic Central is 18-5 and coming off a 74-71 victory over the top-seed and No. 1 Class B team in the state, Tamarac, in Wednesday’s semifinal.

The Crusaders, whose last appearance in a Section II championship game was in 1982, feature two of the most

Ichabod Crane’s Brett Richards (24) goes to the basket during a February 1 Colonial Council game against Catholic Central.

exciting young talents in the state in eighth-graders Darien Moore and Sei’Mir Roberson, both of whom have already received offers from Division I colleges.

Moore, a former Hudson student-athlete, averages 22 points per game, while Roberson, the Crusaders’ floor general, averages 15 per contest.

Conor Gemill and Danny Bologna have also had big games this season for coach Guy DiBacco. Bologna hit seven 3-pointers in Wednesday’s win over Tamarac.

“CCHS is a young, very athletic team with good shooters,” Ferguson said. “They like to play at a fast pace and press and run. ICC will need to control tempo and pace, and outrebound CCHS in order to control the fast break game, as was

done in game 2 at ICC. If we can do those things and stay out of foul trouble, we should be successful again.”

Ferguson, who earned his 300th career coaching victory during the season, said there have been plenty of heroes in the Riders’ run to the Section II championship game.

“I have been blessed with outstanding assistant coaches,” Ferguson said. “We have a very good chemistry. Mike Hoose, Chris Muller and Dave Dellehunt have been my assistants for many years and I believe we all have the same coaching philosophy, both on and off the court.

They don’t get enough credit for what they do.

“A very special moment for me this year was reaching the 300-win plateau and recording the most wins as the boys

varsity basketball coach at ICC. I have been lucky, coached many good players, watched them develop to adults and start families. Many past players still stay in touch with me. It is very special to me.

“I was able to attend a few former players weddings a few years back and took a past player team photo. At one of the weddings, eight players from different teams were present.

I am still amazed to see how competitive sports have impacted them in their lives and adult hood.”

The winner of Saturday’s game advances to state regional play and will play Section 10 champion Canton on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Saratoga High School.

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Full-time Health Insurance Navigator The Healthcare Consortium is seeking a full-time (35 hrs/wk) Navigator to provide in-person assistance to individuals and families in Columbia and Greene Counties applying for health insurance through the New York State of Health Marketplace.

Minimum qualifications include a high school diploma, basic computer skills, and a valid driver’s license; no knowledge of or previous experience with health insurance is required, as extensive training will be provided.

The ideal candidate will be curious and willing to learn, be able to work both independently and as part of a team, and be motivated to provide excellent customer service, both in person and by phone. Preference will be given to individuals who speak Spanish and/or Bangla.

The Healthcare Consortium’s offices, where this individual will spend some of his/her/their time, are located in an ADA-compliant facility and observe COVID-related workplace health and safety protocols. The candidate must also be able to work at alternate worksites, including his/her/their home, and on some evenings and weekends (with ample advance notice). The job entails local travel to a variety of work settings (e.g. libraries, town halls, churches, etc.) using one’s own personal vehicle; mileage expenses will be reimbursed at the federal rate ($.585 in 2022).

The starting wage for this non-exempt position is $17.00/hour (firm), with a rich benefit package.

For a complete Position Description and Employment Application Form, visit http://www.columbiahealthnet.org.

Please respond with a completed Application Form, resume, and cover letter to: Ashling Kelly, Office Manager The Healthcare Consortium 325 Columbia Street, Suite 200 Hudson, NY 12534 Email: ccchc@columbiahealthnet.org Applications will be evaluated and applicants interviewed on a rolling basis until a suitable candidate is found.

The Healthcare Consortium is an equal opportunity employer and values having a diverse staff. Employment opportunities are based upon individual capabilities and qualifications without regard to race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic as established under law.

QUARRY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR A. Colarusso & Son, Inc. is seeking an experienced Equipment Operator for the Quarry Division. Overtime is required. The employee will be responsible for loading trucks using a front-end loader as well as loading barges at our Hudson dock. Must work overtime as necessary.

EOE. Full benefits provided, including health, dental, and vision coverage, as well as a pension/profit sharing plan.

Salary commensurate with experience. Send resume to garyg@acolarusso.com or mail to PO Box 302, Hudson, NY 12534, Attn: Human Resource Department.

BIN TRUCK DRIVER A. Colarusso & Son, Inc., Quarry Division, is seeking a full time Bin Truck Driver; CDL not required. Responsibilities will include monitoring and delivering material to asphalt bins during production, as well as various other labor duties. Must work overtime as needed. EOE. Full benefits provided, including health, dental, and vision insurance as well as a pension/profit sharing plan, Salary commensurate with experience. Send resume to garyg@acolarusso.com or mail to PO Box 302, Hudson, NY 12534, Attn: Human Resource Department.

WORKING MECHANIC SUPERVISOR A. Colarusso & Son, Inc. is seeking an experienced Working Mechanic Supervisor for our quarry division.

This position is responsible for the daily maintenance of our fleet of equipment and will be hands on, as needed.

Good mechanical knowledge of diesel/gas engines, hydraulic brakes, electronics, electrical systems, and parts inventory required. Must have management and supervisory experience, work well with others, and possess strong attention to detail and organization.

EOE, Full Benefits provided, including health, dental, and vision insurance as well as a pension/profit sharing plan, Salary commensurate with experience. Send resume to garyg@acolarusso.com or mail to PO Box 302, Hudson, NY 12534, Attn: Human Resource Department.

TRUCK DRIVER A. Colarusso & Son, Inc., Quarry Division, is seeking experienced Class A/Class B CDL Drivers. Material hauled includes sand and gravel, quarry aggregates, and blacktop. Must have the ability to operate a tri-axle dump truck, flow boy, and dump trailer. Overtime as needed. EOE. Full benefits provided, including health, dental, and vision insurance as well as a pension/profit sharing plan, Salary commensurate with experience.

Send resume to garyg@acolarusso.com or mail to PO Box 302, Hudson, NY 12534, Attn: Human Resource Department.

GROUND PERSON/LABORER A. Colarusso and Son, Inc. is seeking a Ground Person/ Laborer. We are willing to train the right candidate.

Duties will include greasing and maintenance of equipment, changing screens, shoveling, and various duties around the plant. Must work overtime as needed. EOE. Full benefits provided, including health, dental, and vision insurance as well as a pension/profit sharing plan.

Salary commensurate with experience. Send resume to garyg@acolarusso.com or mail to PO Box 302, Hudson, NY 12534, Attn: Human Resource Department.

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From death threats to corporate backlash, Russian NHL players ‘in a very difficult spot’ Adam Kilgore The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — Alex Ovechkin bolted out of the tunnel for pregame warm-ups Thursday night, the first Washington Capital onto the ice.

The usual complement of No. 8 jerseys bearing his name dotted the crowd, and in a few hours that crowd would chant his name. If Ovechkin peered across the ice and into the corner, he would have seen a small Ukrainian flag pressed against the glass, next to a placard with Vladimir Putin’s face superimposed over an image of Adolf Hitler.

Amid the churn of the NHL season, Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has been inescapable for the league’s several dozen Russian players, including some of the top athletes in the sport, headlined by Ovechkin. They have faced online threats and alleged verbal abuse, prompting the NHL and some teams - including the Capitals - to bolster security. Sponsors have backed away from their connection to Russian players, while lower leagues have limited their participation.

Across the world, athletes and federations have ostracized Russian athletes, part of a global push to isolate Russia and Putin. FIFA suspended Russia from international competition.

Facing pressure from athletes from other nations, the International Paralympic Committee banned Russian and Belarusian athletes from the Paralympics. Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich said he would sell the celebrated London football club Chelsea FC. Droves of leagues and federations have excluded Russian teams and athletes.

The bans have made Russian NHL players at once some of the most visible Russians in North America and some of the only Russian athletes competing on a major stage. While under immense, implicit pressure from the Russian government, they have faced backlash in arenas, on social media and in cities where they play.

“My clients have been receiving death threats,” agent Daniel Milstein, who represents more than two dozen Russian players, said Tuesday in a phone conversation. “My clients’ babies on Instagram have been called Nazis.

My clients on the streets in different towns, on the road or at home, have been told to get the f

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and I’m looking forward to that day.”

Boeheim also spoke in various interviews about the likelihood of incorporating manto-man defense next year and switching to other options outside of the 2-3 zone that has been solely utilized in recent seasons.

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in the past three months, since the lockout began on Dec. 2, has betrayed an ounce of care for fans of the game. With every mealy protestation to the contrary, such as the commissioner’s remarks on Tuesday, the stewards of MLB have taken steps to actively deprive fans of the game in service of their agenda to take more than their fair share from players.

MLB’s actions show it is not merely apathetic toward fans and their concerns, but is cynically relying on their good memories of baseball to excuse the embarrassing mess the owners have made. This lack of consideration goes back, at least, to the summer of 2020. While we as a society have overcome so much since then, the reality is MLB has

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Alex Ovechkin, with John Carlson before Thursday’s game, has come under scrutiny for his relationship with Vladimir Putin.

out of the country and go back to Russia. And this is all in the last six days.”

Milstein has felt a distinct emotional toll. He is a Ukrainian Jew who fled Kyiv for the United States in December 1991, during the final days of the Soviet Union’s existence. He immigrated, he said, with one suitcase and 17 cents to his name. As his heart breaks for Ukraine, he is also speaking up for Russians who may lack the wherewithal to speak out for themselves.

“Most of them are in a tough spot, because they can’t publicly speak,” Milstein said. “Some of them are concerned for the well-being of their family members who are still at home.

And so I can tell you one thing: Nobody wants war. With that said, they’re in a very difficult spot. One of the guys who said ‘no war’ publicly, his family was one of the families that has gotten ill wishes and death threats, too. Even he got it.”

Milstein said the NHL has been

“phenomenal” in arranging extra security for Russian players. In a statement last week, the league condemned Russia’s attack on Ukraine and announced it had suspended all business relationships in Russia and shut down its Russian-language media outlets. It also acknowledged the challenge Russian players face.

“We also remain concerned about the wellbeing of the players from Russia, who play in the NHL on behalf of their NHL Clubs, and not on behalf of Russia,” the statement read. “We understand they and their families are being placed in an extremely difficult position.”

“There’s stress,” said Capitals General Manager Brian MacLellan, whose 23-man roster includes four Russians. “They’re constantly thinking about the situation back home and here. There are conversations with family, conversations with people they know in both countries. They have relationships with Ukrainian people, too. I think they’re just trying to

process that.”

Many Russian players - including stars like Pittsburgh’s Evgeny Malkin and St. Louis’s Vladimir Tarasenko - have offered no public comment as their country cracks down on dissent. Calgary Flames defenseman Nikita Zadorov is a notable exception. As the invasion began, Zadorov posted an Instagram photo consisting solely of the words “NO WAR” above his caption: “Stop it!”

Zadorov posted the image knowing it likely meant he would never play for Russia’s national team again, understanding it could endanger family members. Putin has often turned to sports for propaganda. A high-profile athlete protesting the government would draw especially fierce rebuke.

“It’s difficult for all the Russian players in the league,” MacLellan said. “There’s a lot of pressure put on them to have a political opinion either way, and they’re trying to balance out how they live their lives and what their political opinions are and the repercussions that could happen back home.”

New York Rangers star Artemi Panarin, a vocal critic of Putin and supporter of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, took a leave of absence last year after a former Russian coach made accusations, printed in a Russian newspaper, that Panarin assaulted an 18-year-old woman in 2011. The Rangers called the allegation, “clearly an intimidation tactic being used against him for being outspoken on recent political events.”

It perhaps shouldn’t be surprising that most Russian players have since avoided political commentary.

No Russian player has faced harsher scrutiny in North American than Ovechkin. The Capitals have added security personnel for Ovechkin, who has long supported Putin in public. In 2017, Russia built a “social movement” called “PutinTeam” around Ovechkin. “I never hid my relationship with our president, always openly supported him,” Ovechkin wrote in announcing PutinTeam.

Ovechkin was criticized after a news conference last Friday in which called Putin “my president. Despite his history of promoting Putin, Ovechkin insisted he was only an athlete and asked for peace.

Regardless of the outcome Saturday, Syracuse is locked in against Florida State for the matchup of the No. 8-9 seeds in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament. They will begin in the second round Wednesday at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

WILLIAMS OUT FOR SEASON: Syracuse freshman forward Benny Williams will miss the remainder of the season with an unspecified lowerbody injury, as confirmed by the team Thursday.

Williams was injured during Monday’s overtime loss at North Carolina and is expected to make a full recovery.

He averaged 1.9 points and 1.4 rebounds in 11.4 minutes per game off the bench, appearing in 29 of 30 games during his rookie season.

Williams produced season highs of 14 points, six rebounds, and 30 minutes in last Saturday’s loss to Duke and said he plans to return to SU for his sophomore season afterward.

SENIOR DAY ON TAP: Buddy and Jimmy Boeheim are among seven seniors or outgoing graduate players who will be recognized prior to Saturday’s regular-season finale.

Syracuse will also honor Cole Swider, Bourama Sidibe, Paddy Casey, Nick Giancola, and Chris LaValle, per a team spokesperson.

Swider will reportedly consider returning with an extra year of eligibility granted amid the COVID-19 pandemic while the rest of the group is

expected to play its final game in the Dome.

Following the recent loss to Duke, Buddy Boeheim reiterated that he intends to leave the program after the season as originally planned despite the potential for an extra year.

“You just know when it’s time really,” Buddy Boeheim said. “Just looking to next year, the recruiting class we have coming in, I’m excited to see the future and just ready for something new, a new challenge. It’s been an honor to

play here but I’m excited for what’s next.”

MASK PROTOCOL ALTERED: Syracuse University announced updated stadium protocols for attending games at the Carrier Dome.

The most notable alteration is that masks will no longer be required for spectators who have been fully vaccinated, which took effect on Wednesday. All other recent safety measures implemented remain in place.

been stuck in the same spot.

This is 2020 all over again.

Back then, MLB had the opportunity to be the first professional sport back in session during the early months of a global pandemic. Fans were anxious to watch anything other than “Tiger King”; anything to provide a brief sense of distraction and entertainment. But Manfred and the owners squandered their precious moment to grab the nation’s attention with the sport’s likable and talented stars, who are far more appealing than Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin.

The owners cried poor, staying consistent to its decades-long PR strategy, and said they would lose money on every game without fans in the seats. Never mind that in 2019, the last season before the pandemic, MLB revenues surged for a 17th straight year to a record $10.7 billion, according to Forbes. Still, it remained

true that, just like many businesses at the time that experienced economic impacts, MLB’s $10 billion per year industry would take a hit.

Manfred, the mouthpiece for MLB owners, reiterated that the 2020 season would not begin unless players accepted pay cuts -- even though a March 2020 agreement between the parties indicated Manfred could set the season schedule as long as players received full pay. Owners tried to stand their ground for over a month, insisting that players will need to take pay cuts for the season to begin, despite the fact that most of them will remain owners longer than players will keep playing.

Owners, too, knew they would recoup their 2020 losses relatively quickly, either by lucrative TV deals, or real estate developments and other owned businesses, or by selling their franchises for more than they bought them for, or a highly

rewarding combination of all three.

Even then, Manfred and the owners were being shortsighted. They had already won the 2016 Collective Bargaining Agreement and were reaping the benefits, as evidenced

by Forbes’ 2019 report. But it wasn’t enough. For billionaire owners who have the power to be insulated from the consequences of their actions, MLB would not settle until it hit that sweet spot of a short season with expanded playoffs, the latter of which safeguards the league’s greatest revenue structure, even if it came at the expense of lifelong baseball fans or stadiums workers who just wanted their sport back.

Owners only realized they needed to start the season when the Players Association said it would file a grievance that MLB did not negotiate in good faith to play as many games as possible in the shortened 2020 season. (In May

2021, the players did eventually file that grievance, which is seeking as much as $500 million, or roughly 20 games of additional pay.)

After more than a month of contentious negotiations between the players union and the league, negotiations that all but ensured there would be a labor battle after the Collective Bargaining Agreement expired on Dec. 1, 2021, Manfred imposed a 60-game season with full pro-rated player pay that would begin on July 23, 2020. Meanwhile, the Mets and Yankees received permission from the New York state government to begin preseason training from their home stadiums as soon as May 24. Due to the owners’ short-sightedness, players did not begin filing into summer camps for a second spring training until July 1.

Now, MLB has picked up where it left off in 2020: trying to squeeze their product for

an extra dollar, while ignoring the pleas from die-hard fans and stadium workers who want the game to return, the very same fans who Manfred claimed are at “the very top of our consideration list.” If MLB was considering its fans, and not just weaponizing them, the owners would lift the lockout, players would start spring training and negotiations for a new CBA would continue to resume while the regular season starts on time.

Instead, Manfred all but abandoned the sanctity of opening day, an annual reset button on the baseball calendar that means more to fans than most of these owners will ever understand, and too easily shaved off a week of regular season games. The owners’ lockout is already on its 92nd day, and if what happened in 2020 is any indication, the labor talks will get even worse before they get better.

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What baseball loses when capitalism and romanticism collide Jerry Brewer The Washington Post

The last time baseball’s grown-ups bickered away part of a season, Tony Gwynn Jr. was 11 years old and confident his father would hit .400. The year of labor strife that people keep referencing now - 1994 - isn’t just a distant memory to the son of a Hall of Famer. It’s the time when he fell hardest for baseball, only to realize loving this sport would also harden him.

That was the season his dad allowed him to be around the San Diego Padres more often. Young Tony finally got to absorb all of the game. He pranced around the clubhouse, took the field during batting practice, traveled to road games. Dad thought he was old enough to learn the big league lesson he had been waiting to give.

“It wasn’t just a game,” Junior recalled during an interview this week. “He wanted me to understand it was a job for everybody. I started to understand a little bit more about the business aspect and why certain things needed to be done. The firsthand experience was eyeopening and fun, right at the time when my love for the game was starting to blossom.”

Then, after a pause, he spoke a little softer and slower.

“And later that summer . . . well . . . it was disappointing, to say the least,” Gwynn said.

There was something evocative about the way he said it, the restraint and the resignation in his voice, simple words spoken like a man programmed to endure in a sport that specializes in self-inflicted pain. It was a hint of emotion from almost three decades ago, and it connects us to the current predicament. On Tuesday, Major League Baseball announced it would cancel the first two series of the season - essentially a week’s worth of games for every team - because the owners and players can’t figure out a new collective bargaining agreement. For the first time since the players went on strike in August 1994 - a battle that also cost games the following spring - a labor dispute will disrupt the season. This one is a lockout that the owners instigated, and it will shorten the start of the year rather than lop off the conclusion of a campaign. Nonetheless, the disappointment is familiar. And the concern is that this period of unrest could wind up being just as destructive in its own way.

It will continue to be infuriating, but the business of baseball will sort itself out eventually.

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Fans are locked out of Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium on Feb. 22 in Jupiter, Fla.

What can’t be negotiated, however, is a healing of the game’s soul. In sports, labor conflict always makes capitalism and romanticism collide, and that’s what creates collateral damage from which these games never fully recover.

The story of the Gwynn family is a poignant place to view it all. The first two-thirds of the 1994 season were really good for the sport, and no one felt the impact of the abrupt ending as much as Tony Gwynn. He was vying to become the first player to hit .400 since Ted Williams in 1941. He went 3 for 5 against Houston on Aug. 11, 1994, raising his average to .394. And that was it.

One day, his son was doing the dreamy math and thinking it was possible with 45 games remaining. The next day, it became clear why his father had been on all those conference calls for all those hours. For the child, the best time became no time at all.

“As an 11-year-old, I was upset for selfish reasons,” Gwynn Jr. said. “I truly felt like my dad had a chance to get that .400 spot.”

There would be no lengthy commiseration, though. The elder Gwynn knew the season would be stopped. It may have been the greatest individual year of his illustrious career, but he wasn’t going to let the what ifs consume

him. He came home, tucked away his glove and his National League-leading .454 on-base percentage, and within a few days, he was a spirited 34-year-old parent chauffeuring his two kids to school. Junior maintained his love for baseball, even as basketball competed for his affection. He compartmentalized the business of the game, amplified his joy and came out of the mess more determined to follow in his father’s footsteps.

“I think my dad set the tone for that,” said Gwynn Jr., whose father died in 2014 after a cancer battle. “Once the season ended, I don’t think he looked back on that until he was about to retire. As a family, we didn’t, either. People would look back and wonder what could have been. He didn’t really entertain it. I learned a lot about being a professional from that. For me, it was: ‘I want to put on one of these uniforms. I want to play in a stadium.’ Despite all that was going on, I was dead set on making it happen.”

Gwynn Jr. was selected in the second round of the 2003 draft, and he played 685 games over eight major league seasons. He’s in broadcasting now, doing radio and television in San Diego, forever linked to the Padres. He apologizes that, because of his job in baseball, he can’t talk too much about the lockout. But he does

acknowledge that his story is an exceptional one, and he’s fortunate his dad taught him to both cherish the good of the game and navigate the unavoidable realities of a multibillion-dollar enterprise.

He knows not everyone is conditioned to be this way.

“I will say that, of course, when you have a work stoppage, you run the risk of people not coming back,” Gwynn Jr. said.

Gwynn Jr. is a baseball lifer with a lot of time left. He’s just 39. The problem is, there are fewer casual-fan versions of him. Too many in his generation abandoned the game somewhere amid the strike, the steroids era or the sport’s inability to evolve and market itself in a fresh way. The erosion of baseball’s audience and its diminished status as the former national pastime don’t make it near extinction. Such a breathless assertion is preposterous because there’s still a robust fan base. But the question that makes the situation seem dire is about cultivation. How does baseball - which currently has some of the most impressive young talent in its history - nurture loyalists into the future?

This is a bad time to lock out intrigue. Some of the new faces of the game have a potential magnetism that reminds me of the star power of the 1990s. Gwynn Jr. agrees. But it means nothing if they can’t play. The pandemic already forced the 2020 season to be a weird 60-game affair, and there were labor disagreements that contributed to that year being so short. A second significantly truncated season in three years would be catastrophic for interest. Even when you’re frustrated with baseball, there is comfort in being able to set your calendar to that steady heartbeat for more than six months.

But in less than a month, the regular season won’t begin as scheduled, and it will feel like Aug. 12, 1994, again. Gwynn Jr. remembers his father coming to tell him: Baseball was about to stop. It didn’t start again until 1995.

“I couldn’t wrap my head around it,” the son recalled. “I was like, ‘What?’ I was already thinking, ‘Is there not going to be a World Series?’ “ The season Gwynn Jr. fell for baseball ended before his Oct. 4 birthday. Normally, that would have been around playoff time. Twenty-eight years ago, it was just a Tuesday. Dad drove him to school, stuck on .394, declining to imagine an alternate reality. It was disappointing, to say the least.

Taking a swing at the factors that will determine when MLB will end its lockout Scott Lauber The Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA — OK, what’s next?

Two days after Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred called off the first two series -- five or six games per team -- of the regular season, lead negotiators for the owners and players got together Thursday in New York to discuss a way forward.

The informal meeting lasted 90 minutes and touched on several topics but didn’t end with the scheduling of another bargaining session.

Time is a key element now. The owners’ lockout will enter its 93rd day Friday. Will the ensuing days and weeks be marked by frequent talks, such as the nine consecutive days of negotiations in Jupiter, Fla., or devolve into a prolonged staring contest and additional cancellations?

The sides, more accurately described as adversaries, did move closer

to each other in some areas this week.

But they dug in to their respective stances on others, notably the competitive-balance tax. And the erasure of games, which Manfred said won’t be rescheduled, will bring a new set of topics to the table, including back pay and service time for missed games.

In a news conference Tuesday, Manfred said, “Our position is that games that are not played, players will not get paid for.”

“Our position,” the players’ lead negotiator, Bruce Meyer, said in a separate news conference, “is that if the league decides unilaterally to pull down games and then we have a deal, the players should get compensated for those games.”

Is anyone having flashbacks to 2020, when MLB and the players went 12 rounds over the length of the schedule and compensation in a pandemic-shortened season? Based on how

it will affect players’ timelines for free agency and salary arbitration.

It’s more difficult to pinpoint the financial hit for ownership. The Atlanta Braves and Toronto Blue Jays are the only teams owned by publicly traded companies. Last week, Liberty Media Corporation reported that the Braves turned a $104 million profit in 2021 and $6 million in revenue per home game.

April tends to be the least profitable month of the season for most teams because colder weather and children being in school conspire to lower attendance. Those factors have fueled speculation that the hawks on management’s side are some small- and middle-market owners who oppose significant hikes to the luxury-tax threshold and wouldn’t mind a later start to the season, especially if it means cutting back the players’ salary.

But there’s also the matter of

well that negotiation went, these talks could get even uglier before coming to a merciful denouement.

So, which side will blink first? As usual, follow the money.

Based on a 186-day regular-season schedule, Bryce Harper stands to lose approximately $148,056 per day beginning March 31 when the season was supposed to open. At the other end of the payroll spectrum, where a majority of players reside, lost wages would average $3,067 per day based on the 2021 minimum salary of $570,500. (MLB is proposing a $700,000 minimum; the players are seeking $725,000 and larger annual raises.)

The union planned for this scenario and made $5,000 stipends available to players on Feb. 1 and March 1. The amount will reportedly increase to $15,000 per player in April. But it isn’t only about money. If MLB follows through on withholding service time,

television contracts. The Athletic reported that many regional sports networks require teams to issue rebates after 25 missed games. NBC Universal declined to comment Thursday on the Phillies’ arrangement with NBC Sports Philadelphia.

Regardless, it’s a potentially expensive game of chicken for both the owners and players. And the continuation of a lockout that is entering its fourth month would be damaging for the industry as a whole, especially given the number of entertainment options available to fill the void.

It took Cal Ripken Jr.’s breaking of an unbreakable record in 1995 and an artificially-enhanced home-run race in 1998 to revive MLB’s popularity after the 1994-95 strike, and even then, average per game attendance didn’t surpass pre-strike levels until 2006. And baseball is less popular now than it was then among casual fans.

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Hardworking wife finally ready to hit the bricks Dear Abby, I have been married to “Arthur” for 50 years. There have been many problems in our marriage, and we even separated a couple times. I had kids to raise and never enough money to break it off completely.

DEAR ABBY Over the last 13 years, my husband has been so-called “unable to work” and on disability. I have worked to keep us afloat, while he eats and sleeps and has gained 100 pounds.

My mother passed away this year, and I will inherit money after my siblings and I sell her house. Would it be ridiculous for me to move out and get my own apartment?

I am very unhappy living with Arthur, and he can make it on his own Social Security, which I helped him to maximize.

Really Needs A Change

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Dear Abby, My daughter and her husband have created online family albums. My son-in-law takes most of the pictures. When we visit, he rarely takes any pictures of our side of the family, but he always takes pictures of his own family. My daughter doesn’t seem to care or notice that we are absent from the albums.

I’m afraid that in years to come, our grandchildren will look at those albums and think we weren’t there. The other grandparents once said that the grandkids

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always talk about us, and I got the impression they felt threatened. I know they shared it with their son. We are hurt.

The Big Picture In The East Your fear of being “erased by omission” may be valid.

Because you mentioned that your daughter doesn’t notice, talk privately with her and tell her that you and her father are hurt because of the discrepancy. Unless you do, the situation won’t change. While you’re at it, ask if you can upload your own photos to the albums. And continue making non-photo memories with your grandchildren, as you have been doing.

Dear Abby, I recently purchased some eyeglasses that my wife totally hates. The frames are round and somewhat retro in style. I have received compliments on them from friends and co-workers. The rub is, my wife has told me she doesn’t want me wearing them, and that by wearing them I’m disrespecting her, disregarding her feelings and, by extension, not caring about her.

I am feeling very controlled not being able to wear the glasses I like. I love her, but I think I’m “old enough” to make my own personal choices. By the way, I never tell her what she may or may not wear, as I feel that is her personal choice as well. Am I wrong to wear them?

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No, you are not “wrong.” Your wife is wrong to equate your choice in eyewear with your regard for her. From where I sit, it looks like an attempt to fight dirty. Don’t fall for it.

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By Stella Wilder Born today, you are perhaps one of the most proactive individuals born under your sign, with a clear and unrelenting “go get ‘em” attitude that serves you well in all endeavors, personal or professional. You like to work hard and you like to have fun, and you have a way of combining work and fun that maximizes the rewards of both, and again and again you astonish those around you with some new success that gives you complete enjoyment.

There may be times when you make a wrong move that requires you to stop, recover and reset — but you’re able to do that quickly and efficiently when it comes to professional endeavors. Personal affairs, however, are never quite as easy for you to navigate, and about such things you’re likely to be more of a student than a teacher.

Also born on this date are: Eva Mendes, actress and model; Joel Osteen, evangelist; Andy Gibb, singer; Teena Marie, singer; Jack Cassidy, actor; Dean Stockwell, actor; Rex Harrison, actor; Neil Jackson, author and writer; Paul Blackthorne, actor.

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

SUNDAY, MARCH 6 PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — A discussion of current affairs may reveal to you an issue that has gone unnoticed for too long. Now you must address it openly and honestly.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — What you accomplish today — or, rather, how much — depends on your ability to shut out the kinds of distracting noise minor issues can create.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You may have

to go at things a little more slowly than usual today in order to accommodate someone who isn’t as experienced as you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Comprehension of a difficult issue is not likely to be consistent among your friends and allies. It’s up to you to fill in the gaps, if possible.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You will want to take some time today and think about how a friend is responding to a difficult issue. How does your behavior figure in?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You’ll have the time to study only the major issues today; don’t let yourself be distracted by peripheral complica- Daily Maze tions. Stay on task!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You’ll have trouble concealing something that threatens to tell another side of a story from the one you’ve espoused. Why not let it out?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You must be willing to speak the truth today — and to face it when someone reveals what you didn’t already know or realize.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Someone has been sending you signs and signals on a regular basis, but they’ve not been reaching you. You’ll want to pay attention today!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Your situation may require you to wrap your head around certain issues that you’re not yet properly equipped to handle. Ask for help.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Your principles are sound and fact-based, which puts you ahead of many of your rivals. Today, however, someone like you may surge ahead.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You mustn’t discount what someone is bringing to the table merely because it is straightforward and uncomplicated. That may well be best.

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Saying goodbye to ‘Arthur’ How it became TV’s longest-running animated series for children

By NEAL JUSTIN Star Tribune

The average aardvark lives for about 20 years. Arthur Read, the most famous of those mammals, has defied those odds and inspired several generations of young viewers in the process.

On Monday, Feb. 21, “Arthur,” the longest-running animated series for children in TV history, concluded its 25-season run. While the characters will continue to pop up in podcasts, online video shorts and games on PBS’ website, it’s basically the end of era.

For those of us without kids, “Arthur” is first and foremost a

movie in which Dudley Moore gets caught between the moon and New York City. But parents know that the cartoon Arthur has had a lot more impact than any drunken millionaire on its core audience — ages 4 to 8 — without ever talking down to them.

The show’s popularity was evident when creator Marc Brown visited St. John the Baptist Catholic School in Savage, Minn., in 2009. The surprised second-graders treated their guest like he was a rock star. “‘Arthur’ is not only part of their weekday-morning ritual at home, it’s part of their curriculum,” said Beth Behnke, who was then the principal.

“We love ‘Arthur’ here.”

Older viewers who grew up on “Arthur” can be just as fanatical.

“I’ll take my daughters to school and meet with teachers who grew up on ‘Arthur,’” said Jodie Resther, who voices the character of orangutan Francine Frensky, during a virtual news conference last month with other cast members and producers. “When they find out I do the voice of Francine, the reaction is insane.”

One of the key reasons the show has endured so long is that over the course of nearly 200 episodes the writers never seemed to run out of fresh ideas, getting inspiration wherever they could. Executive producer Carol Greenwald recalled the time she was on the phone with an international distributor when he suddenly had to go; his son had gotten on the wrong bus.

“We hung up and I was like, ‘OK, I have to wait until

he finds his son, but then it is going in Arthur’s story,’” she said.

Greenwald and her team have taken on subjects few other children’s programs would touch. In the final four episodes, airing consecutively Monday afternoon, children will learn how a newspaper works, get tips on how to make small talk with grown-ups and get introduced to the magic of silent films.

“We really knew that we were on the right path if we just continued to be authentic and kind of push limits,” Resther said. “We knew if we kept being the resource to help kids learn and grow we would eventually be taken into wonderful directions.”

The series, which has earned four Daytime Emmys and a Peabody Award,

Arthur Read, the beloved aardvark, is the titular character of the animated PBS show that is based on the “Arthur Adventure” book series by Marc Brown. PBS/TNS

also introduced characters with physical disabilities, military families and special-education needs. A 2019 episode celebrated a same-sex marriage.

“That is something I am probably the most proud of,” said Daniel Brochu, who voices the character of Buster Baxter, Arthur’s bunny

buddy. “It was true to the spirit of the whole show. It was always about acceptance and open-mindedness.”

The final episode jumps to the future where viewers will learn what happens to the characters when they become adults. Let’s hope their kids have a show just as special as “Arthur” to watch.

IF YOU GO Lake Morey Resort 82 Clubhouse Rd., Fairlee, Vt. 800-423-1211 lakemoreyresort.com This lakeside resort in the Vermont Hills above the Connecticut River has maintained the skating loop on Lake Morey since 2011, taking over efforts started by volunteers in 2000. Ice conditions are updated on Facebook, Instagram and a phone line.

Access to the lake is free to all; rentals of figure and hockey skates, cross-country skis, snowshoes and sleds are free for hotel guests. Hotel guests can rent Nordic skates free for two hours.

For day visitors, figure and hockey skates rentals $17; Nordic skates, $30; helmets, $10; hockey sticks, $5; and kid skate trainers, $10. Kickspark scooters, $40 for a full day and $30 after 1 p.m.

Ice skaters and hockey players on frozen Lake Morey are seen from a second-floor room at Lake Morey Resort. Anne Kenderdine/Washington Post

Classic room, two double beds with garden or golfcourse view, from $179 per night. Hotel restaurant is open 5:30 to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Clubhouse Bar & Restaurant is open 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.

In Vermont, glide along on natural ice

By ANNE KENDERDINE Washington Post

The sky was sliding toward periwinkle and the skate rentals had closed for the day, so there were few witnesses when my daughter pushed off onto the frozen lake. She had brought her own figure skates, and she stroked away decisively. In my boots atop a thin layer of snow, I watched her, as I’ve done so many times at skating lessons for five of her 14 years. Except on Lake Morey in Fairlee, Vt., in the January twilight, there was no wall to lean on, no high-powered spotlights, no pop songs pumping from speakers and no reason for her to have to turn around.

I couldn’t see my daughter’s face in the distance, but I tried to gauge her reaction to the lake’s organic expanse, so different from the gated, manufactured ovals she was used to skating on. She pivoted, played with footwork

and whirled in a scratch spin.

She finally whooshed to a stop where I stood. “I feel like I’m flying,” she said.

Maybe, I hoped, this crazy trip was worth it.

When my daughter shared her wish to skate on natural ice, Lake Morey Resort seemed an easy answer. Just off Interstate 91 along the New Hampshire border, it is known for maintaining one of the longest groomed and monitored skating loops in the country, about four miles following the lake’s perimeter. Although longer U.S. trails have been created by volunteer-run organizations during the pandemic, this one has a toasty hotel, as well as dining next to the lake.

I wouldn’t have to spend any time outdoors in Vermont’s single-digit temperatures unless I was exercising.

And there were plenty of ways to do that. The resort offers so many kinds of gear that guests inspired by the Winter

Olympics in Beijing can try several of the sports played in the Games. Figure skates, hockey skates and sticks, cross-country skis, and fluorescent-colored sleds that can be pulled on the lake or used as a pseudo luge at a sledding hill on the resort grounds are on offer. The Nordic skates, ideal for stability over the small bumps and natural fissures on wild surfaces, are like skis in the way the boot and long, wide blade are separate pieces that clip together. The blade only connects to the boot at the toe with a hinge, so when skaters lift their foot, the back of the blade releases and swings free. There are also snowshoes, ice scooters (to be used with provided crampons for traction), and a bicycle with one fat back tire and two yellow skis in lieu of the front one.

At home, my daughter spends hours at rinks indoors and out, but she prefers to

Figure skaters stroke westward on the half-mile-long skating trail on the frozen Lake Morey in Fairlee, Vt., in January. Anne Kenderdine/Washington Post

skate in the elements once our local outdoor rink opens for the season. During that first pandemic winter, the routine and endorphin-generating

vigor of skating at the outdoor rink were critical in lifting our family’s spirits, giving us purpose and a place to see friends.

I wanted our late-January trip

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A toast to nutty, seedy salsa macha Your taste buds will delight when paired with avocado toppings

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Nutrition information per serving (1 1/2 cups) | Calories: 438; Total Fat: 12 g; Saturated Fat: 2 g; Cholesterol: 0 mg; Sodium: 674 mg; Carbohydrates: 72 g; Dietary Fiber: 6 g; Sugar: 2 g; Protein: 9 g This analysis is an estimate based on available ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s or nutritionist’s advice

“Just leave it to me, and I will spoil you.”

When you’re grieving, those are soothing words, especially when they’re delivered by one of your closest friends — and she happens to be an expert at feeding people. When Pati Jinich returned from traveling in mid-January and learned that my mother had died of complications from COVID-19 two weeks earlier, those words were the second sentiment she expressed to me. The first was, “I’m so very sorry, Joe-Joe.” Pati and I have made an offand-on habit of cooking together, usually on days when she’s got her Chevy Chase, Md., home to herself, and we love showing each other favorite ingredients and tricks. When she’s traveling to film episodes of her public television show, “Pati’s Mexican Table,” we can’t get together quite as often, but we always make up for lost time. She’ll break open a find from her latest trip to Mexico (exquisite chile-covered tamarind candies, or a spectacular mezcal), I’ll take her something from my garden (red poblanos we used to make what I, in my bungled Spanish, nicknamed “rojo rajas”), and we’ll taste and cook and laugh.

On this visit, though, she didn’t let me pick up a knife.

Instead, she plied me with food and drink for hours as we talked about our families and shed no small amount of tears. I’ll spare you the details because, one, all you would do is get jealous about the most of the food, and two, some things get to stay between friends. But I will say that she started with one of the most delicious dishes I’ve tasted in a while, and she agreed that I could share a recipe for it.

The appetizer was based on two things Pati and I both love: avocados and salsa macha. If you haven’t had the latter, it’s high time you change that. Salsa macha is an outlier among Mexican salsas. It’s chock-full of chunky nuts and dried chile pieces that have all been gently simmered in a good amount of oil, making it more akin to Chinese chili crisp than to, say, a sharp tomato salsa.

With a little sugar and vinegar added, it possesses a layered balance of all four of the primary elements of good cooking espoused by Samin Nosrat’s blockbuster book and TV show “Salt Fat Acid Heat.”

Before she pulled a jar of the salsa from her fridge, though, Pati had a crucial question for me about the third ingredient in this little snack: “What do you think about this thin German brown bread? Do you like it?”

Like it? I love it, using the Mestemacher brand most recently as the base for a breakfast of nut butter, smashed bananas, drizzles of honey and toasted coconut. Pati grinned, put some pieces in the toaster and started cutting avocados, fanning them over the toast and drizzling them with the salsa.

Granted, I was hungry — for emotional as well as physical

subject to the vicissitudes of nature: Earlier this month, the trail was temporarily closed to skaters after a pair of storms left slush and standing water on the lake. This year, the unusual weather patterns have meant the resort has been unable to open the four-mile perimeter trail, but it has opened a half-mile loop and cleared “rinks” on the southeast part of the lake next to the hotel.

When we looked out at the lake from our hotel room on our first morning at the resort, crews were already brushing snow from the ice, and skaters were moving on cleared stretches and on the shorter loop.

As much as I had loved having the 547-acre lake mostly to ourselves the evening before, I delighted in the morning energy. There were college-age hockey players ribbing each other, a small child living his

best hygge life while nestled on a sheepskin on a sled towed by an adult skater, people propelling scooters made with two skis, dogs galloping alongside skaters, three generations of a family meeting friends, and preschoolers on an outdoor playdate. Practiced Nordic skaters zipped around the loop, bent forward with hands clasped behind their backs.

My daughter told me to look where I was going instead of down, but I was fascinated by the navy-gray lake’s texture. The ice was etched by blades and naturally occurring cracks; it looked to me as if we were skimming across pavement instead of a freshwater bowl averaging 24 feet deep. She briefly tested the Nordic skates, too, but quickly switched to experiment with hockey skates.

By the afternoon, as more clouds set in, I was starting

Mushroom, white bean and rice skillet. Scott Suchman/Washington Post

Pantry-friendly rice skillet is all about umami Mushroom and white beans add hearty flavor to this one-pot meal

By AARON HUTCHERSON Washington Post

A hearty, filling, one-pot meal can be a lifesaver on busy weeknights, and this recipe is no exception. Two pantry staples — canned beans and rice — form the base of this dish, and it’s bursting with mushroom flavor thanks to the pairing of canned fungi and a retro recipe shortcut: condensed cream of mushroom soup.

The canned condensed cream of mushroom soup doubles down on the fungi’s earthy umami flavor. The oldschool ingredient often associated with green bean casserole at Thanksgiving can be incredibly useful in a variety of instances, particularly for those reliant on canned goods and other pantry items for much of their cooking.

My first recipe test stopped there, more or less, and while I enjoyed the taste of my new creation, I couldn’t help but wonder: Could it be more?

Then I remembered the leftover bottle of Worcestershire sauce I purchased to make Cincinnati Chili. Using it reminded me that a couple of tablespoons are a magic bullet for adding umami and pizazz.

A few dashes later, I found it gave just the right amount of oomph my palate was looking for. (If you don’t already have a bottle in your pantry, this dish is still delicious without it.)

After the ingredients have simmered and the rice is steamed and soft, scoop the beautifully beige masterpiece into bowls and top with French’s Crispy Fried Onions — which I’ve now taken to eating like potato chips — for a bit of crunch. (Alternatively, jarred fried shallots commonly found in Asian markets would work well, too.)

MUSHROOM, WHITE BEAN AND RICE SKILLET 45 minutes 4 servings Storage Notes: Refrigerate leftovers for up to 4 days.

NOTE: When shopping, opt for the unsalted version of the condensed cream of mushroom soup, if available, so you have more control over sodium levels. Otherwise, you may want to omit or reduce the salt initially added to the recipe.

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of anxiety and virtual school.

Lake Morey seemed to offer freedom from worry. All over the country, if winter is biting enough, ponds, rivers and lakes will freeze and become skateable for a time. But Mother Nature’s sheets are uneven and unpredictable.

At the lake, the ice is evaluated daily and maintained by a fleet of plows and motorized brushes to streamline it and make skating possible.

The fleeting season when the trail is open for ice skating makes those days more magical. It usually opens by Martin Luther King Jr. Day in January and closes near the end of February, although it has opened as early as New Year’s Day. Like any outdoor venue, it is

One (13.25-ounce) can mushrooms pieces and stems, drained, rinsed and patted dry 1 small yellow onion (about 5 ounces), diced 1 teaspoon dried thyme 1/2 teaspoon fine salt, plus more to taste 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper, plus more to taste 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder 2 cups water 1 1/4 cups long-grain white rice, such as basmati, rinsed One (15-ounce) can white beans, such as cannellini or Great Northern, drained and rinsed, or 1 1/2 cups cooked white beans One (10.5-ounce) can unsalted condensed cream of mushroom soup 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce (optional; may substitute with vegan or gluten-free Worcestershire sauce) French’s Crispy Fried Onions, for serving In a large skillet with a lid, heat the oil over medium heat until shimmering. Add the mushrooms, onion, thyme, salt, pepper and garlic powder and cook, stirring regularly, until the onions begin to soften and turn translucent, 7 to 10 minutes.

Add the water, rice, beans, soup and Worcestershire sauce, if using, and bring to a simmer, scraping up any bits that may be stuck to the bottom of the pan. Reduce the heat to low to maintain a simmer, cover and cook, stirring regularly so the bottom of the pan doesn’t burn, until the rice is al dente, 15 to 20 minutes.

Remove from the heat and set aside to steam the rice until soft, about 10 minutes.

Taste, and season with more salt and/or pepper, as desired.

To serve, spoon into bowls and top with French’s Crispy Fried Onions.

Recipe from staff writer Aaron Hutcherson.

Avocado Toast With Salsa Macha. Scott Suchman/Washington Post

nourishment — so maybe I’m overstating this, but I don’t think so. The combination of crunchy toast, creamy and cool avocado and chunky salsa macha, itself so complex, made me swoon.

At the end of the night, Pati sent me home with a little jar of the salsa, but I went through it in mere days and needed to make a batch of my own. The recipe, found in her latest cookbook, “Treasures of the Mexican Table,” is quick and easy and makes almost 3 cups of salsa — which gets better-tasting with storage. I’ve made the toast for breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks ever since and have taken to spooning the salsa on leftover pasta, hummus, beans and more.

A few days after my dinner with Pati, another friend asked how I was coping with grief, and when I said, “I think I’ve turned a corner,” I realized just how healing of an evening it had been. My feelings are summed up in the cookbook’s title. It’s clear to me now that to her many viewers and readers, and to me as her friend, the most valuable treasure of all isn’t any one dish. It’s the woman on the cover.

SALSA MACHA WITH MIXED NUTS Active time: 15 minutes; Total time: 30 minutes 24 servings; makes about 3 cups This salsa might become your new favorite condiment, as its spicy-sweet-tart flavor and chunky texture can make any dish shine. This recipe is ripe for experimentation: As cookbook author Pati Jinich writes, “Choose the dried chiles and nuts that you like, cook in oil until the ingredients change color and smell toasty, then season with vinegar and your favorite sweetener.”

Jinich likes to include tiny amaranth seeds, which are popular in Mexican sweets, but if you can’t easily find them, use sunflower or sesame seeds instead. Apply the salsa pretty much anywhere, but it’s especially stellar on guacamole or avocado toast, hummus, soups, eggs — even ice cream.

Note that the flavor continues to develop and deepen with time, so while it’s great to get the hang of the Nordic skates and had settled into a rhythm, lifting my feet off the ice and hearing the metallic thwunk as the skate blade extended. I was concentrating on sustaining my pace when my daughter pointed out a hot-air balloon sailing above the lake. The yellow-and-red color-blocked canopy, powered by hot air, seemed incongruous in the white winter landscape. “It’s going to land on the lake,” she predicted, and she was right. Next, two seaplanes — one red, one yellow — swooped over us, touching down with their skis on the lake’s northern tip, as skaters paused and pointed.

After a day of skating, we wanted to take advantage of all the gear at hand and try a sport we had never attempted. We chose the cross-country skis, and the woman outfitting us directed us to the lake. It was

immediately, it’s even better after a day or two.

Storage Notes: While traditional recipes for salsa macha suggest refrigerating for up to 1 month or more, food-safety experts recommend refrigerating this for no more than 1 week or freezing for up to 6 months.

(Tip: Freeze what you’re not going to eat in within 1 week, and thaw 1/2 cup to 1 cup at a time to then use within a week.)

Where to Buy: Most wellstocked supermarkets carry a good selection of dried chiles, but you can find an even wider selection in Latin or international groceries. Amaranth seeds can be found in natural foods stores or Latin or international groceries.

1 cup extra-virgin olive oil 1/2 cup neutral vegetable oil, such as sunflower 5 dried ancho chiles, stemmed, seeded and cut with scissors into small pieces 4 to 5 dried chiles de arbol, stemmed and cut with scissors into small pieces (with seeds) 6 garlic cloves, sliced 1/3 cup raw unsalted walnuts 1/3 cup raw unsalted pistachios 1/3 cup raw unsalted pine nuts 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar, plus more to taste 1 tablespoon dark brown sugar or grated piloncillo, plus more to taste 1 teaspoon fine salt, plus more to taste 1/3 cup hulled raw unsalted pumpkin seeds (pepitas) 1/3 cup amaranth seeds (may substitute sunflower or sesame seeds)

coarsely ground. Use immediately, if desired, or transfer to a lidded jar with and refrigerate until needed.

Nutrition | Per serving (2 tablespoons): 197 calories, 2 g protein, 6 g carbohydrates, 19 g fat, 2 g saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 100 mg sodium, 1 g dietary fiber, 1 g sugar Adapted from “Treasures of the Mexican Table” by Pati Jinich (Harvest, 2021).

AVOCADO TOAST WITH SALSA MACHA 10 minutes 2 servings This easy snack or light meal for two people tops creamy avocados on German brown bread with salsa macha, a chunky blend of nuts and dried chiles fried in oil. The dish depends on each of the three elements being just right: The bread should be toasted heavily, so it’s very dark and crunchy. The avocados should be perfectly ripe and creamy.

And the salsa macha should be homemade.

Where to Buy: Shelf-stable German-style bread, such as Mestemacher brand sunflower, rye or pumpernickel, can be found in many supermarkets or health food stores.

1 ripe avocado, halved, pitted and sliced 2 slices German brown bread, such as Mestemacher brand, cut in half crosswise and toasted until quite crisp 1/4 cup Salsa Macha (see related recipe) Flaky sea salt (optional)

In a medium skillet over medium heat, heat the olive and vegetable oils until shimmering. Add the ancho chiles, chiles de arbol, garlic, walnuts, pistachios and pine nuts, and cook, stirring, until the garlic is lightly browned and the mixture is fragrant, about 5 minutes. Turn off the heat and stir in the vinegar, sugar and salt to combine. Stir in the pumpkin and amaranth seeds. Taste, and season with more vinegar, sugar and/or salt as needed.

Let the mixture sit for 10 to 15 minutes, to slightly cool and infuse with flavor. Transfer to the bowl of a food processor and pulse a few times until

Scoop out the avocado slices from each of the halves. Fan the avocado slices on the toasted bread, and drizzle with the Salsa Macha. Sprinkle with the salt, if desired, and serve.

a Monday morning, and we were the only people on it.

On skis, we sought the thick stack of snow untouched by plows or human tracks and headed north, paralleling the shoreline and what seemed an early pass at plowing the longer perimeter trail.

Farther north on the lake than we had found passable with skates, I tried to internalize the views my dad must have seen when he trained here in the late-aughts for a long-distance Nordic skating race in Stockholm. His passion for skating had skipped a generation, to the granddaughter who was 2 when he died. A pond hockey player as a boy and a longtime outdoorsman, he pursued Nordic skating when the Vermonter who initiated the Lake Morey trail began raising the sport’s profile stateside. My dad and my daughter never skated

together, and he never saw her camel spins and toe loops. But their shared yearning to skate in nature drew us here, and the landscape connected us to his experience, the same exhilaration of being able to flow across the stilled water.

Hills of hemlock and white pine sloping eastward toward Morey Mountain cast triangles of shade on our course with points far beyond us; the only way to eyeball our progress was to keep shuffling and skidding toward their tips when we would emerge into the sun.

When we did, the crystallized crust on the snow sparkled dizzyingly. I could hardly hear my panting over the crackle of skis and poles. We glimpsed ice fishers walking in the distance, but otherwise, we were alone with the brilliant cover above, the pristine, glittering frost below.

Nutrition information per serving (2 pieces avocado toast, using rye bread, and 2 tablespoons salsa macha) | Calories: 486; Total Fat: 30 g; Saturated Fat: 4 g; Cholesterol: 0 mg; Sodium: 375 mg; Carbohydrates: 52 g; Dietary Fiber: 14 g; Sugar: 3 g; Protein: 8 g Adapted by Joe Yonan, based on a dish by Pati Jinich, author of “Treasures of the Mexican Table” (Harvest, 2021).

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Food Glazed carrots shine with flavor

This stunning radicchio and grapefruit salad is

pleasingly bitter

By ELLIE KRIEGER Washington Post

Carrots are so much more intriguing than they usually get credit for.

They have both a savory quality, which hints of the earth they come from, and enough sweetness to be dessert-worthy (hello, carrot cake).

Raw, they handily keep their crunch in lunchboxes and picnic salads, but they also yield beautifully to heat, transforming with cooking to melt-inyour-mouth softness. Nutritionally, carrots are a wonder, too, bursting with the antioxidant beta-carotene (which imparts their yellow-orange color,) plus fiber, potassium and vitamin C. This recipe gives the vegetable a chance to shine, literally, with a glossy, lip-smacking glaze that plays up on all its assets. The carrots, which are sliced on the bias for extra flair, are first simmered in a brightening splash of orange juice until they are just tender. Then, in the same skillet, they are coated with a touch of maple syrup to coax out their sweetness, a dollop of miso paste to bring out their savory side, and a hit of orange zest for fruity contrast.

Once the carrots are tender and shimmering with all that flavor, they are sprinkled with a nutty crunch of toasted sesame seeds, making for a quick side dish that lets you enjoy the full splendor of the stalwart vegetable.

Storage: Refrigerate for up to 3 days.

Where to Buy: Miso can be found at well-stocked supermarkets, health food stores or Asian markets.

By ELLIE KRIEGER

MISO-ORANGE GLAZED CARROTS

Washington Post

25 mins 4 servings (about 3 cups) This recipe gives carrots a chance to shine, literally. A glossy, lip-smacking glaze of miso and maple syrup coaxes out the vegetable’s sweet-savory flavors, along with a brightening kick of orange and a sprinkle of toasted sesame seeds. It’s a quick, elegant side dish that reveals the splendid possibilities of the stalwart vegetable.

Storage Notes: Refrigerate for up to 3 days.

Where to Buy: Miso can be found at well-stocked supermarkets, health food stores or Asian markets.

1 tablespoon white sesame seeds, black sesame seeds or a mix 1 tablespoon unsalted butter or neutral oil 1 1/4 pounds carrots (8 medium), peeled and cut on the bias 1/4-inch thick 1/4 cup juice and 1/4 teaspoon finely grated zest from 1 large orange, divided 1 tablespoon shiro miso (white miso) 1 tablespoon maple syrup 1/8 teaspoon fine salt 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper In a 10-inch dry skillet over medium heat, toast the sesame seeds, stirring See CARROTS C8

Miso Maple Glazed Carrots. Tom McCorkle/ Washington Post

Color compelled me to create this salad — I was drawn in by the variety of red winter produce at the market and had the urge to bring it together. But while the resulting dish turned out as beautifully as I had hoped, I was surprised to realize that the element that made it so enchanting wasn’t its rich shades of red, but its bitterness.

Wait, what? Bitterness? Yes! Bitterness may the one basic taste is routinely thought of as a negative, one to avoid or cover up. But when present in balance, even as a leading flavor like in this salad, it can make a dish, giving it complexity and boldness that demands the eater’s attention and keeps them craving the next forkful.

That’s definitely the case here where radicchio sets the stage with its peppery crispness, red grapefruit brings its signature bite mellowed by juicy sweetness, and red onion adds an enlivening snap.

That pleasantly bitter trio is countered with a lightly sweetened balsamic dressing, creamy dabs of goat cheese and a rich crunch of toasted walnuts. You could substitute any mild, soft cheese or nut, or even veer away from the red theme and use arugula or chicory instead of radicchio.

Whichever way you go, you will wind up with a stunning salad that offers a welcome contrast when served with hearty winter stews or roasted dishes, thanks, in large part, to its alluring bitterness.

RADICCHIO AND RED GRAPEFRUIT SALAD 15 minutes 4 servings (3 cups) This salad centers on red winter produce, with radicchio bringing a peppery crispness, red grapefruit adding its signature bite mellowed by juicy sweetness, and red onion offering an enlivening snap. That pleasantly bitter trio is countered with a lightly sweetened balsamic dressing, creamy dabs of goat cheese and a rich crunch of toasted walnuts for a stunning salad that offers a welcome contrast when served with hearty winter stews or roasted dishes.

1/4 cup (1 ounce) walnut pieces 1 large red grapefruit 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar 1 teaspoon honey 1/4 teaspoon fine salt 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 3 cups lightly packed, torn radicchio leaves (1 head) 1/4 small red onion, thinly sliced into rings (12 slices) 2 ounces soft goat cheese (chevre) In a small dry skillet over medium heat, toast the walnuts, tossing or stirring frequently, until fragrant, 3 to 5 minutes. Remove

Radicchio and Red Grapefruit Salad. Tom McCorkle/Washington Post

from the heat, transfer to a small bowl and let cool.

Using a sharp paring knife, trim the top and bottom off the grapefruit. Stand it on one end and, cutting downward following the curve of the fruit, remove all the rind and white pith. Hold the fruit over a medium bowl and cut each grapefruit segment from its membrane, letting the segment drop into the bowl. Squeeze any juice from the remaining membrane into a small bowl or jar.

In another medium bowl, whisk together the oil, vinegar, honey, salt, pepper and 1 tablespoon of the grapefruit juice. (Reserve the remaining juice for another use, such as drinking it.) Add the

radicchio to the bowl with the dressing and toss to coat.

To serve, arrange about ¾ cup of the radicchio onto each plate then evenly divide the grapefruit segments, onion, goat cheese and the walnuts over each portion.

You can also arrange the salad in a large salad bowl and serve it family-style.

Nutrition information per serving (¾ cup salad), based on 4 | Calories: 192; Total Fat: 15 g; Saturated Fat: 4 g; Cholesterol: 7 mg; Sodium: 208 mg; Carbohydrates: 12 g; Dietary Fiber: 2 g; Sugar: 7 g; Protein: 5 g From cookbook author and registered nutritionist Ellie Krieger.

How to lower your grocery costs when prices are soaring

By NICOLE NORFLEET Star Tribune

Even with high inflation, there are plenty of ways to save money on your next trip to the grocer.

Grocery runs have gotten more expensive.

Anyone who has taken a look at their receipts in the last few months can tell that prices have gone up on nearly everything from chicken wings to milk as inflation levels reached heights we haven’t seen in decades.

The cost of food that people eat at home rose 6.5% in December compared to the same

month the year before. That’s well above what people were used to. Over the last 20 years, the cost of supermarket purchases rose about 2% a year on average.

“If you are not careful, you are going to have a full cart and be shocked at how much you spent,” said Haley Nelson of St. Paul, Minn., who has shared low-cost recipes on her blog Cheap Recipe Blog for more than a decade.

Inflation may slow this spring and summer from last year, but price increases may still be higher than normal.

Here are some ways you can

plan and shop to better stretch your grocery budget:

PLAN YOUR TRIP AND DON’T GET DISTRACTED When is the last time you really looked in your pantry? The first step is to taking stock of what’s in your fridge and cupboards. That will prevent you from buying items you already have.

Do you plan your meals?

Or do you pick up whatever strikes you in the store?

“Impulse is the grocer’s best friend and temptations are everywhere,” said Steven Plant, a financial planner at Raymond

James in Wayzata, Minn., who owned a local grocery store for 15 years.

GO TO THE GROCERY STORE WITH A LIST “This is really not the time to wing it,” Nelson said. Having a list helps you stay focused on what you need so you don’t overspend on extra items.

Don’t shop while hungry and avoid picking up unplanned processed foods such as frozen dinners.

LEARN YOUR STORE Discover your grocery store’s hidden finds such as

Broadening your horizons probably could help your household budget.”

JAMIE PFUHL President of the Minnesota Grocers Association

discount sections. Many grocery stores have sections or bins with soon-to-expire food or bruised fruits that are still good to eat, said Jamie Pfuhl, president of the Minnesota Grocers Association.

Two of the best places to get deals is the bulk section of spices at local food cooperatives and the salad bar at grocery stores where you can get a small scoop of ingredients like bacon bits, Nelson said.

Having a better grasp on prices of your everyday items and the pricing of an array of stores instead of relying on just one can also be helpful.

“Broadening your horizons probably could help your household budget,” Pfuhl said.

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Puzzles

Last week’s puzzle answers

Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born Sunday, you are a cautious, realistic and thorough sort whose list of accomplishments is likely to be considerable — if not widely known. You do not seek fame in any respect — though it may be thrust upon you at some point — and you do what you do simply because you enjoy it and it enriches you in some way. It is perhaps because you do not intentionally seek out notoriety that it may come to you readily.

The traditional and the cutting edge are both very much alive within you, and you are able to combine the best of what has gone before with a great many novel ideas or intentions and do things no one has done before. You also have a knack for doing traditional things in ways that are unique.

Also born on this date are: Lou Costello, actor and comedian; Shaquille O’Neal, basketball player; Michelangelo, artist; Rob Reiner, actor, writer, director; Tom Arnold, actor and comic; Kiki Dee, singer; Moira Kelly, actress.

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

MONDAY, MARCH 7 PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You may have to adjust your schedule without really knowing all that is affecting it — or why.

This may feel a lot like a shot in the dark.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You are in a position to save the day today if others are unable to carry out their duties for any reason. But even you can only do so much!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You are adding to your own mental database and learning a great deal that will one day serve you well. You may want to assess where you stand.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — What matters to you today may set you apart from others who are not immersed in the same situations in the same way.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You’re going to have to figure out what to ask for if you’re going to take full advantage of someone’s generosity. Tee it up right!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Focus on your emotional well-being today. You don’t want to put yourself in a position where any little thing might cause you distress.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Though you may have expected to fill in for someone today, it will surely come as a surprise when you have to fill in for others as well.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Your opinion is not the only one that matters, though it may be the only one that takes into account all the evidence. Listen to others.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You can work closely with someone today to devise a plan that may not be completely foolproof, but almost so. Focus on details.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You may have to think about what you’re doing today more than usual, even though much that falls to you will be routine. Avoid surprises!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You can shine a light on a pressing problem that has gone unnoticed by most others for too long. Today you can approach it head-on.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You will want to avoid an aggressive stance today, since you may be quite emotional about the issue at hand. Be calm; listen to reason.

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Books & authors

Great narrators married with great stories 3 new audiobooks that are worth a listen

By KATHERINE A. POWERS Washington Post

“OLGA DIES DREAMING” Xochitl Gonzalez’s debut tells the story of Olga Acevedo, a successful wedding planner, and her brother, Prieto, a popular U.S. congressman living in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in Brooklyn. Their father is dead and their mother, Blanca, abandoned them as children to fight for Puerto Rico’s independence. Prieto is being blackmailed by property developers, and Olga is conducting a demoralizing affair with a selfimportant, older man — until she meets Matteo, the answer to our prayers. That’s the setup for this many-layered novel which is, at once, a witty romantic comedy, a tale of two siblings finding themselves, a portrait of hurricane-torn Puerto Rico’s tribulations as a U.S. territory, and a story of an ethnic community shattered by gentrification. Almarie Guerra delivers Blanca’s often pleading letters to Olga in a voice that conveys both urgency and self-forgiveness; Inés del Castillo narrates energetic, fast-talking Olga’s sections; and Armando Riesco takes on those of the genial, soul-tortured Prieto. All three

narrators are Puerto-Rican born and deliver the Spanish passages with musical grace, thereby enhancing an already fine novel. (Macmillan Audio, Unabridged, 11 1/3 hours)

“SOMETHING TO HIDE” This is the 21st installment of Elizabeth George’s series starring those stalwarts of New Scotland Yard, Acting Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley, and D.S. Barbara Havers, now with D.S. Winston Nkata. It’s an insufferably hot summer in London and an undercover police detective has been murdered. She had been investigating the continuing (though not universal) practice in the Nigerian community of female genital mutilation. Is the murder related? Elsewhere, the fate of an 8-year-old girl is at stake. The story widens

into a pursuit and becomes infinitely more complicated as George adds further story lines, while maintaining suspense through the many hours of developing her characters into fully fleshed people. As audiobooks, George’s novels have been extremely fortunate in their narrators, all multi-award winners: Donada Peters, Davina Porter, John Lee and, here, Simon Vance, who delivers the book at a measured pace in his distinctive emollient voice. He grants moderate accents to the characters, but his manner is really that of a gifted storyteller rather than an actor performing parts. (Penguin Audio, Unabridged, 21 ½ hours)

“THE TORQUED MAN” Peter Mann’s clever debut relates the adventures of a German intelligence operative,

Audiobooks can help people who have trouble reading due to poor eyesight, difficulty staying focused or who just prefer the audio experience. For many people, audiobooks also help them take in more books while multitasking. Pexels

Adrian de Groot, and his charge, the Irish Prionnsias Pike, a man of many self-conferred identities, including Finn McCool, the mythical Irish warrior. The story unfolds from De Groots’ diary entries alternating with Pike’s mockheroic sections called “Finn in the Bowels of Teutonia.”

Plucked from a Spanish prison by De Groot in 1940, Pike has been recruited to gather support for Hitler among the

British-hating Irish. In fact, he is a British double agent with a personal mission to kill the doctors who tortured him and euthanized handicapped children. (“Doctors — they must be eliminated! thought Finn in his wise brain.”) Events turn chaotic, occasionally ludicrous, but the writing is dryly witty, sown with references to the literature of the time.

Narrator John Lee, who has a natural gift for Irish accents

(an excruciating weakness in many narrators), delivers a superbly insolent Pike/Finn.

His de Groot is restrained, free of guttural hackings, allowing sympathy for a man rebellious at last against the regime. This is an exceedingly odd but very enjoyable book. (HarperAudio, Unabridged, 11 1/3 hours) Katherine A. Powers reviews audiobooks every month for The Washington Post.

Our world might be a simulation; would that be so bad?

By JESS KEISER Washington Post

Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy

By David Chalmers W.W. Norton. 544 pp. $32.50 Philosophy, the critic Arthur Danto often argued, is defined by its singular obsession with doubles. Take two things — exactly alike to our senses — and show why one is stone and the other shadow. That’s philosophy.

Page through philosophical writing and you’ll find Danto’s contention confirmed again and again. Philosophy of language often asks us to imagine a “Twin Earth,” a world just like ours but different in some critical way that transforms the definition of, say, the word “water.” Writing on personal identity, meanwhile, might thrust you into a Star Trek-style teleporter, asking you to consider whether your original self makes the trip or if you are replaced by an atomically identical replica. Pick up a book on consciousness and you’ll encounter a horde of “philosophical zombies,” beings just like you and me — they can speak, write, perform complex actions — with one key difference: None of these activities feel like anything to the zombies. They are intelligent but have no qualia: the ineffable sense of “what it’s like” that seems to define conscious experience.

This last group of speculative doppelgangers often shambles through the writing of David Chalmers. Zombies make an appearance in his latest book, “Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy,” along with the aforementioned Twin Earth. But all these familiar pairs and impostors play a supporting role in Chalmers’s quest to solve what may be the greatest of philosophical double puzzles: How do I know this world is the real one?

As Chalmers notes, you can find variations of this enigma throughout the history of philosophy — both Eastern and Western. Plato challenges his readers to recognize that what they take for reality is nothing of the sort; we are in direct contact not with the real but rather with copies and reflections, shadows projected on a cave wall.

The Indian sage Narada, punished by Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Feb. 12, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan.

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Vishnu for his hubristic insistence that his intellect could pierce even the most powerful illusion, was made to live a second, entirely false life, from birth to old age, before being thrust back into this one. Zhuangzi famously wondered whether he was a philosopher who sometimes dreamed of being a butterfly or a butterfly who became a philosopher when it slept. In the modern era, the most influential version of the puzzle — and the one that “Reality+” most dwells upon — appears in the opening sections of René Descartes’ “Meditations.” There, Descartes wonders how he can tell reality from a dream, and then considers the possibility of a nearly omnipotent deceiving demon that could thrust him into an ersatz existence.

“Reality+” takes these stories of dreams, shadows and hallucinations seriously. They are not, Chalmers insists, simply the idle fantasies of eccentrics, nor are they outmoded puzzles from philosophy’s past. In fact, the proliferation of contemporary versions of this question — What if I’m a brain in a vat? What if I’ve been thrust into the Matrix? What if I’m an unknowing and unwilling contestant on a very unethical reality show? — shows that concerns about the unreality of what passes for everyday life are thriving in our cultural imaginary.

And for good reason. Chalmers argues that ongoing advances in technology — especially in virtual reality and computer simulation — are eventually going to make the scary stories told around seminar tables about dreams and simulacra into real possibilities. After all, I don’t need to imagine a demiurgic deceiver, as Descartes did, if (or when) it becomes possible to plug a person into a truly real-seeming virtual world. Once that happens, another question follows: Could I have somehow slipped into a simulated world without noticing?

Answering this question leads Chalmers to what is sometimes called the “simulation argument,” essentially the modern, technological version of past philosophy’s caves, demons and dreams. In a nutshell, the simulation argument says this: If we ever manage to develop a fully convincing

virtual world, then it is likely that our reality, right now, is merely a simulation wrought by some “higher,” more advanced civilization. After all, if such simulations can exist, they will eventually outnumber original realities. Accordingly, it is statistically unlikely that our world is — as we often like to assume — reality plain and simple. Rather we are living in part of “reality +,” a “cosmos ... contain[ing] many worlds (physical and virtual spaces).”

Like all great philosophical theories, the simulation argument can seem simultaneously world-shattering and coldly convincing. Chalmers, who largely endorses this idea, is adept at making the hypothesis clear without sacrificing its complexity. Indeed, “Reality+” sometimes reads like two books in one. It stands as a welcoming work for first-time readers of philosophy, full of genial references to cultural touchstones such as “The Matrix” and “Rick and Morty.” Simultaneously, it remains substantial enough for those familiar with the field and its ongoing conversations.

As a graduate student at Indiana University Bloomington, Chalmers worked with Douglas Hofstadter, the author of “Gödel, Escher, Bach,” a compelling but sometimes cryptic meditation on math, mind and music. And “Reality+” often reads like an attempt to both reproduce and soften this earlier book’s thorny genius. Like Hofstadter’s work, “Reality+” is frequently weird, wild and wonderful; it captivates the common reader by refusing to condescend. But where Hofstadter is playfully enigmatic and brashly brainy, Chalmers’s writing is perspicuous and teacherly — an approach that keeps it from collapsing into recalcitrant obscurity.

For instance, in a series of brisk but capacious set pieces, Chalmers shows how the “simulation argument” subtly complicates, deepens and extends questions in ethics (Are real lives more valuable than simulated ones?), philosophy of science (Is the fundamental structure of reality a kind of computer code for atoms rather than bits?) and philosophy of mind (Can I simulate consciousness?). Throughout, Chalmers often returns to a set of questions

Like all great philosophical theories, the simulation argument can seem simultaneously worldshattering and coldly convincing. Chalmers, who largely endorses this idea, is adept at making the hypothesis clear without sacrificing its complexity. that he thinks inevitably arise once we grant the soundness of the simulation argument. These include the “knowledge” question (If I were tricked into a simulation, would I know the difference between this virtual world and the real thing?), the “reality” question (Is virtual reality somehow incomplete or second-rate relative to the original?) and the “value” question (How could I live a “good,” meaningful or just life in virtual reality?).

It’s when it is answering these questions that “Reality+” is at its most surprising and audacious.

If a truly powerful simulation set out to trick us, Chalmers contends, it would succeed. That can seem like a despairing conclusion if you’re committed to

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the idea that virtual reality is inferior to the real thing. But, in what is probably the book’s most controversial move, Chalmers wants us to think otherwise: Simulated or virtual reality can be just as significant, sturdy and full as the real thing — perhaps even more so. “If I’ve lived my whole life in a simulation, every flower I experience has been digital all along,” he writes. The beauty we appreciated when we looked at those simulated blooms was authentic, so why would it matter that they’re not “real”?

Chalmers argues this thesis tirelessly and well. To my mind, though, he is less convincing when he seeks to extend it. This occurs when Chalmers sets out to convince us not just that simulations are real in their own right but that they are likely to improve on bare existence. While he is sometimes neutral on this point — “As with most technologies, whether VR is good or bad depends entirely on how it’s used” — there is a recurrent techno-optimistic note sounded throughout “Reality+” that often feels false: “VR may be better than ordinary physical reality,” he writes, adding that it “may allow many experiences that are difficult or impossible in physical reality: flying, inhabiting entirely different bodies, new forms of perception.”

But Chalmers too quickly waves away the obvious counter-argument: that technology, while seemingly enriching life or making existence easier, necessarily alienates, diminishes and restricts. Think of how social media turns the promise of authentic interpersonal interaction into a dreary, theatrical, moralizing blood sport. Other philosophers, perhaps most notably Jürgen Habermas, have explored these problems, but Chalmers never really takes the time to stage their arguments or offer a response. Instead, he contents himself with the possibility that our doubled existence is, in its own way, entirely singular.

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15 ways to improve your home for less than $100 each

By LINDSEY M. ROBERTS

run wires and power through your walls,” says Ariana Grieu, a designer with SM&P Architects in Baltimore.

Sconces on decorative cords can be wrapped around large wall hooks for an ultramodern look. Even large pendants can be plugged in and hung from the ceiling for additional lighting. (Ikea and other retailers offer budget-friendly options.)

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n the midst of this hot real estate moment, you might find yourself unable to move to the home you desire, or perhaps you had to buy a house sight unseen and have little money left to remodel.

Or maybe you’ve been staring at the walls while working from home during the pandemic, and now you wish you could completely redo your kitchen. Your dreams might be bigger than you can take on right now, but three interior designers say there’s always hope. Here are some little changes you can make — each for less than $100 — that will breathe some new life and energy into your home.

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ADD SHEER CURTAINS. Grieu recommends hanging sheers behind heavier window treatments. They offer privacy for transitional moments in the early mornings and late afternoons, “when we’re not quite ready to pull the curtains,” she says. They can also filter light the rest of the day. Sheer panels can be found at Target for about $40 each.

DECLUTTER FOR 30 MINUTES A DAY.

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“We recently moved to a smaller house, and every day, I spend 30 minutes working through drawers,” says Mary Patton, a designer in Houston.

“Having less stuff is so much better for your mental health.” If she puts together a pile to donate, she’ll drop it off the next day, so the items aren’t sitting in her car for six months.

Grieu likes to put accent wallpaper on the ceilings of small rooms, such as sitting rooms or powder rooms.

(Their size can keep wallpaper costs down.) “I tend to keep my other living spaces more neutral, since so many elements have to coexist in a single space,” she says. But she likes “funky and colorful powder rooms.”

Textured ceilings will first need to be made flat. And before hanging the paper, determine how you’ll remove it when the time comes. Peeland-stick wallpaper comes off easily; traditional wallpaper will last longer, but it’s harder to remove.

TAKE A WHOLE-HOUSE INVENTORY. “Once you declutter, decide what you actually need” to bring in, Patton says. Go room by room and make a list of where you need a side table, chair or some new paint, and note what needs to be repaired. Otherwise, it’s easy to wander through stores’ home sections and get overstimulated and overwhelmed — and to come home with more clutter.

REPLACE HARDWARE. Luckett recently bought a white desk and swapped out the hardware for something fancier, and “now it looks custom,” she says. Whether it’s furniture or cabinets, new hardware is an inexpensive update. Look for hardware from build.com or Wayfair.

In terms of what to choose, Luckett says: “There are no single right answers in design, and I’m not a proponent of teaching people that there are. The larger the hardware, the more visually impactful, but that’s not to say that big is always better.”

ADD ART. “I am a big fan of vintage,” says Cheryl Luckett, designer and owner of Dwell by Cheryl in Charlotte. “If I had $100 on a Saturday, I could do a lot of damage in an antique mall.”

Vintage art at thrift or antique stores often comes with frames, saving you most of the cost of a new piece of art.

“It doesn’t have to be large, either,” Luckett says. A small piece might work in a powder room that doesn’t have a lot of wall space. She also likes leaning small still-life pieces on kitchen countertops for color.

PAINT. “Paint is the number one answer in my book,” Luckett says. A powder room could be done with one can of paint if the walls are in good shape and you don’t have to prime. Consider painting doors, too. “A black door does wonders in terms of elevating things,” Luckett says, as long as the room has enough light to allow for it. She also frequently paints furniture to give a room an updated look.

ADD PLANTS. Patton recommends picking up inexpensive plants, such as snake

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frequently, until golden and fragrant, about 2 minutes.

Transfer to a small dish.

Return the skillet to medium heat and add the butter or oil (if using the butter, let it melt first). Add the carrots and cook, stirring occasionally, until warmed through, about 2 minutes. Add the orange juice and bring to a simmer, then reduce the heat to low, cover and cook, until the carrots are firm-tender, 5 to 6

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plants, and interesting planters at home improvement stores. For pots with a bit more personality, she recommends checking Wayfair. Search for the color you’d like, then filter for in-stock products to circumvent the inventory and supply chain issues stores are facing.

HIRE AN INTERIOR DESIGNER FOR AN HOUR. Even though she’s a designer, Patton finds it hard to make decisions in her own home. We all need someone else’s perspective sometimes. Many designers have hourly rates and will come out for a short consultation to offer advice or a vision for your space.

Or you can hire a stager to help you rearrange your home for better flow.

“Even a good friend who has taste” can help, Patton says.

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Stir the miso, maple syrup, orange zest, salt and pepper into the orange juice until they form a sauce. Increase the heat to medium-high and cook, uncovered, stirring frequently, until the carrots are tender and glazed and the sauce thickens, 3 to 4 minutes.

Toss in the sesame seeds to combine, then remove from the heat and serve.

Nutrition information per serving (3/4 cup, using butter) | Calories: 124; Total Fat: 4 g; Saturated Fat: 2 g; Cholesterol: 8 mg; Sodium: 289 mg; Total Carbohydrates: 20 g; Dietary Fiber: 5 g; Sugar: 12 g; Protein: 2g This analysis is an estimate based on available ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s or nutritionist’s advice.

From cookbook author and registered nutritionist Ellie Krieger.

CREATE A GALLERY WALL OF FAMILY PHOTOS. Patton will often take a homeowner’s bin of photos, scan the best ones in black and white, and display them in frame sets she finds on Overstock, Amazon or Wayfair. She looks for sets of three that have thin, black frames and white mats and that come with a template to help you position them.

“If you have a ton of pictures, you can get three sets and put them together,” she adds. As for the best place to do this, Patton says: “I like doing family photos in hallways and staircases, not in a primary area of your house.”

Bay Photo Lab is her go-to for ordering prints.

INSTALL CORKBOARD WALLS. In a kitchen or children’s playroom, Patton suggests using stick-on

corkboard tiles to create places to pin up family photos, Christmas cards or children’s artwork. The pieces are easy to change out when the mood strikes.

CHANGE LIGHTBULBS. “All of the lightbulbs in your house should be the same color,” says Patton, who prefers to use lightbulbs with a 3000K temperature. She also likes non-LEDs, because she finds it hard to get the colors right with LED bulbs. But whether you use incandescent or LED, it’s important to keep it consistent. Patton also recommends installing dimmer switches to control light levels.

TRY PLUG-IN LIGHTING. “Plug-in wall sconces are a really fun way to add levels of lighting to your home without having to

Luckett likes to draw inspiration for accessories from a main fabric with multiple colors. She chooses a color from the fabric, then finds coordinating dishes, vases, pillows and throws to add interest to a room. She says you can find vintage dishes and vases for about $20 or $30.

CREATE DECORATIVE MOMENTS. Grieu likes to add pedestals of various heights, or even a stack of books, to “create decorative moments and give interest to clusters of intermixed objects” on bookshelves, coffee tables, mantels and more. She also likes to use pillar candles, dried flowers or greenery, and small frames.

“Odd numbers are always more appealing in terms of clusters,” she says, and three is her favorite number for grouping pieces together.

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DON’T FORGET ABOUT COUPONS AND REWARD PROGRAMS Whether it’s in print or digital, coupons can still save you money, Pfuhl said. Print circulars like the ones in this paper can also alert you to good deals. Most stores also offer incentive programs where buyers can get discounts on food, gas and other perks so don’t forget to swipe your card at checkout.

STAY FLEXIBLE FOR GOOD DEALS Sometimes you can find similar and cheaper products at another part of the grocery store. If there are products that your family uses on a regular basis, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to grab it when you see it because it is still hard to keep certain popular items stocked, Pfuhl said. But try not to hoard, she warned.

Be flexible on what you buy and try different brands, different sizes of products and even a different product in the same category. “Because of supply-chain issues, if you like product X, you may need to buy product Y,” Pfuhl said.

However, pay attention to the price per ounce. “Smaller sizes are another form of inflation,” Plant said. For example,

Using leftover pork from earlier in the week, Haley Nelson creates tacos, on Feb. 3 in the kitchen of her home in St. Paul, Minn. Nelson has run her Cheap Recipe Blog for more than a decade, sharing ways to shop and cook cheaply. One of her tips is cooking meat and repurposing it throughout the week in several recipes. Shari L. Gross/Minneapolis Star Tribune/TNS

ice cream used to come in half-gallon (64 oz.) cartons and now many come in 48- to 56-oz. sizes.

STRETCH YOUR MEALS AND FIND SUBSTITUTIONS To make meals stretch, repurpose cooked food into other meals throughout the week, Nelson said. She used pork she slow-cooked recently for several meals, including a rice bowl and pulled pork tacos.

When planning meals, identify four or five typically

low-cost ingredients you can sub into your diet such as bananas, chicken thighs and beans, Nelson said. “If you can save $10 twice a week over time, that all just adds up,” she said.

One substitution people are talking a lot about these days is going meatless. By far the largest increase in athome food costs last year in the U.S. was for meat, poultry, fish and eggs — up 12.6% in December compared to the year before.

With the price of meat so

high, you can save a considerable amount of money (and likely see some health benefits) if you go meatless one or two days a week or even a few meals per week, Nelson said.

“There are so many ways to make this work, even for people who are big meat eaters,” she said. Oats, peanut butter, beans, lentils, rice, eggs, potatoes and other vegetables are great staple ingredients for meat-free diets and are cheap alternatives to manufactured plant-based products.