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Construction on the new county jail in Coxsackie is well underway, with contractors expected to wrap up the administrative portion of the complex in four weeks.

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CATSKILL — Lawmakers on the Public Safety Committee have voted down a change order for the new jail for just under $9,500 in snow removal costs.

The committee voted on series of cost reductions and increases related to the jail project. The project is funded by a $39 million bond from Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. at 2.49% interest and an $8.1 million contribution from the county. The county expects to start accepting inmates in July 2021.

Wednesday’s resolution called for payment of $9,452 to James H. Maloy, of Loudonville, for hand shoveling 35,000 to 45,000 square feet.

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Construction on the new county jail in Coxsackie is well underway, with contractors expected to wrap up the administrative portion of the complex in four weeks.

Several encounters with suspected rabid raccoons suggest that rabies may be on the uptick in Greene County.

Jay Sharkey of End of the Lane Farm in Cornwallville has shot five raccoons in the past seven weeks, he said Tuesday.

Animal Control Officer Brian Feml, of Cairo, and Lisa Trafton, of Durham, also reported suspected rabid raccoons in the past month.

Sharkey found the first raccoon, face punctured by porcupine quills, behaving aggressively outside his dairy barn.

“I thought it probably had rabies because normally they stay away from porcupines,” he said.

He called the Greene County Department of Health, but was told that the raccoon would not be tested for rabies unless it had been in contact with a person or animal.

Sharkey, who has 70 dairy cows, was dissatisfied with the Health Department’s response.

“I thought that it was important because of the cows.

I wanted it tested for my own knowledge,” he said.

Sharkey drove the dead raccoon to the Department of Health’s Rabies Laboratory at the Wadsworth Center in Slingerlands, where it tested positive for rabies.

He shot four more raccoons that were out during daylight hours on his property, including one he found fumbling around upstairs in his hay barn.

As a precaution, Dr. Karen Mackerer, a Copake veterinarian, vaccinated all 70 cows for rabies, to the tune of $1,000, Sharkey said.

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Retired state trooper makes bid for Senate

By Kate Lisa Johnson Newspaper Corporation

A Greene County native and retired state trooper is set to make his political debut for a place in the state Capitol.

Richard Amedure Jr., 55, is running for Republican state Sen. George Amedore Jr.’s seat representing the 46th Senate District, which includes all of Greene and Montgomery counties, and parts of Ulster, Albany and Schenectady counties.

The candidate’s last name differs from Amedore’s by one letter, but both are pronounced the same way.

“No, it wasn’t planned,” Amedure said of the coincidence with a laugh.

Amedure, a registered

Independent, is running on the Republican Party ticket.

He is working to gather signatures and secure the In- Richard dependence Amedure Jr. and Conservative party lines, he said. Petitions are due to the state Board of Elections on April 2.

Michelle Hinchey, of Saugerties, daughter of former U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, is campaigning against New Baltimore activist Gary Greenberg for the Democratic nomination. They will face off in a primary in June.

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Amedure graduated from Catskill High School in 1982.

He was a student in the last graduating class of the Leeds school before it closed in the early 1970s.

Amedure and his wife, Anne, are high school sweethearts and have lived in Rensselaerville for the past 25 years.

They have two adult children, Richard Amedure III, 26, and Sarah, 23.

Amedure retired last month after working for more than 30 years as a state trooper. Running for public office was the next logical step, he said.

“I have been solving problems for people in the district my entire adult life for the past 32 years,” Amedure said. “This is a continuation of my public

service.”

Amedure joined the state police in 1989 and worked as a trooper in Greenville for more than 25 years and held training in the area as a firearms, rifleman and ATV instructor.

Amedure spent the last several years of his career as the executive director of the Police Benevolent Association of the New York State Troopers Inc., the union representing state troopers.

He was elected to his administrative position in the union in two statewide races with state police voters ranging in rank from trooper to major. The job gave Amedure experience with the legislative process through contract negotiations and political

advocacy.

“The areas are huge, but the numbers have been small,” Amedure said. If elected, he’s eager to continue working to serve others.

“My unofficial motto for the campaign is ‘Keep Amedure working for you,’” he said.

Amedure holds an associate degree in science from Columbia-Greene Community College. He served a two-year enlistment in the U.S. Army from 1986 until 1988 and achieved the rank of specialist, serving in the 1st Infantry Division in Europe. He returned to the reserves in the mid-1990s and served as an E6 staff sergeant for about five years.

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shovel snow when they knew this was a three-year project?”

Legislator Jim Thorington, RWindham, said. “You’re going to have snow removal. That’s on them, not on us.”

Snow removal was not included in the bid specs, Greene County Administrator Shaun Groden said.

“They expected to have the roof on by the end of November,” Legislator Greg Davis, R-Greenville, said. The project was delayed in the spring while lawmakers were waiting for answers on the legality of sharing jails with other counties, Davis added.

An amendment to County Law 216, which requires each county to operate a jail, is proposed in the 2021 state budget.

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R-Catskill, said. “Tell them we’re not paying it.”

Legislators Patricia Handel, R-Durham, Ed Bloomer, R-Athens, Larry Gardner, D-Hunter and Thorington opposed the resolution.

Greene County Legislature Chairman Patrick Linger, RNew Baltimore, Legislator Harry Lennon, D-Cairo, and Legislator Charles Martinez, R-Coxsackie, were absent.

Legislators Thomas Hobart, R-Coxsackie, and William Lawrence, R-Cairo, supported the resolution.

Legislator Michael Bulich, RCatskill, asked if the jail finance committee had approved the expense. Groden said it had been approved. A subcommittee was formed in November to expedite change orders under $7,500. Linger, Davis and Bulich were appointed to the subcommittee. “[The change order] wouldn’t come before the full Legislature if it’s under $7,500, so there wouldn’t be a full 30-day delay,” Bulich said Thursday.

Other changes included a

cost reduction in the amount of $174,665 to Jersen Construction LLC, of Waterford, for changes made to the design of the garage — originally estimated at $1.3 million, a reduction in the amount of $3,185 to John W. Danforth Company, of Halfmoon, for the heating, ventilation and air conditioning for the garage and a decrease in the amount of $8,292 to Nfrastructure Technologies LLC, of Clifton Park, for electrical work in the garage and to Jersen Construction LLC in the amount of $32,000 due to the second floor of one of the male inmate pods not being furnished.

Lawrence cast a negative vote for the reduction related to the unfurnished cells.

“It’s a short-range savings for a long-range problem,” he said Thursday. Having the cells properly outfitted with sinks and toilets may come in handy in the future, Lawrence said. “I was thinking ahead if our needs change.”

Increases included $8,633 to Nfrastructure Technologies LLC for electrical work and $19,240

to Nfrastructure Technologies LLC for exterior lighting.

“The rear of the building was designed to use infrared to motion cameras,” Groden said, adding that the state Commission of Correction required that area to be lighted instead.

Construction on the project is “going great,” Bruce Haeussler of The Pike Company told lawmakers.

Workers will start on drywall soon and the administrative section of the jail should be finished in four weeks, he said.

“We’ll be pouring slab March 25 for the women’s pod,” he said. Pour dates for the male pods will be April 9 and 10, he said.

Crews are working six days a week, with some workers on 8-hour days and others on 10-hour days, Haeussler said.

Although the cell manufacturer is only five hours away, it will take 24 hours to haul the units to the site, Haeussler said, adding that some roads will have to be closed in the process.

being aggressive, always call just to be safe.”

The lower portion of New York state has seen an increase in rabies and distemper since the end of 2019, said Missy Runyan, founder of the Friends of the Feathered and Furry Wildlife Center in Hunter.

“I would attribute it to the mixing of wildlife and domestic pets,” she said. “Unfortunately, birdfeeders, unsecured garbage and unvaccinated feral cat colonies spread the disease faster because they bring species together that would never dine together normally. There’s a bite and a fight and saliva is shared.”

The Department of Health will test only raccoons, skunks and bats, known as rabies vector species, if they have bitten or

scratched a person or an owned animal, Runyan said.

Many people do not keep their pets up to date on rabies vaccines, which accelerates the spread of rabies, she said. “It’s back with a vengeance, because of ignorance.”

The problem may get worse, said Wes Laraway of the New York Wildlife Rescue Center in Middleburgh, which has seen several cases over the winter.

“I suspect there will be more cases as the weather gets better and more animals are coming out of winter hibernation,” he said.

Do not touch any animal, alive or dead, suspected of carrying rabies, Laraway said.

The health departments of Greene and Columbia

counties have free rabies clinics to vaccinate dogs, cats and ferrets throughout the year. The next clinics are in Ancram at the Town Highway Garage on Saturday and in New Baltimore at the Medway-Grapeville Firehouse on March 25. The county Health Department websites list upcoming dates.

New York frequently leads the nation in the number of rabid animals, according to the state Department of Health website.

The Greene County Health Department did not return calls or emails seeking comment.

Nora Mishanec is a reporter at Columbia-Greene Media. She can be contacted at nmishanec@columbiagreenemedia.com or 518-8281616 ex. 2495.

4,000 quarantined over coronavirus worries

By Kate Lisa Johnson Newspaper Corporation

ALBANY — About 4,000 people are quarantined in the state to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, which more New Yorkers tested positive for overnight for the second day in a row, officials said Friday.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo confirmed a total of 44 people in the state have tested positive for the new coronavirus, also known as COVID-19. Symptoms of the illness, which was first detected in China on Dec. 31, include fever, cough and shortness of breath.

“This is like a flu on steroids,” Cuomo said. “I’m not urging calm — I’m urging reality. I’m urging a factual response as

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Amedure served on the town of Rensselaerville Planning Board for about 14 years, and was appointed board chairman for about the last five.

Amedore and Amedure have worked together in the past. The retiring senator is excited Amedure is in the running to take his place.

“I’m very excited — he’s a great guy,” Amedore said Wednesday. “He’s very personable and spent a lot of years in public service between his service in the military, 30-plus years being a state trooper, and now continuing that service by running for public office speaks for the type of person that he is.”

Amedure’s role with the state police union gave him experience with advocating with lawmakers and the legislative process, Amedore said.

The senator, from Rotterdam,

opposed to an emotional response. I’m urging people to understand the facts, and the fact is, we have more people in this country dying from the flu instead of the coronavirus. The reality is not frightening here.”

Over the last 10 weeks, the virus has spread to 35 other countries, including outbreaks in the Republic of Korea, Italy, Iran and Japan. The World Health Organization reported 95,265 global cases of COVID-19 and 3,281 deaths Thursday.

The state has about 4,000 people in precautionary quarantine across 24 counties and New York City, or are isolated because they traveled to countries with level 2 or 3 Travel Health Notices put in

place by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, had indirect exposure to a person who tested positive for the virus and experiences no symptoms or any person local or state health officials believe should be quarantined.

“It’s basically all across the state — obviously heavier in New York City and in Westchester,” Cuomo said over a PowerPoint presentation with statewide COVID-19 statistics.

Several dozen Capital Region residents are in precautionary quarantine, the governor said, with 11 in Albany County, 12 in Schenectady County, four in Saratoga County and two in Schoharie County.

None are quarantined in Columbia or Greene counties.

Four new cases are confirmed in New York City, 34 in Westchester County, two in Rockland County and four in Nassau County.

It is believed that the majority of the cases are connected to the illness of a 50-year-old Westchester County attorney.

The quarantine includes 2,700 residents in New York City, 1,000 in Westchester County, 115 in Erie County, 70 in Nassau County, 15 in Tompkins and Suffolk counties, six in Warren County, four in Broome County, three in Dutchess County, two in Cayuga and Fulton counties, among several others.

was first elected in 2014 and is finishing his third full term. He announced in November he will not seek reelection, citing personal reasons.

“At this time in my life, I’m focusing on putting family first,” Amedore said.

If elected, Amedure said he plans to address the state’s bail reform, and supports a full repeal of the controversial law, which allows individuals charged with most misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies to be released from custody without bail.

“That law has made all residents of upstate New York less safe,” Amedure said. “Police do not have a mechanism for helping victims... it needs to be 100% repealed and replaced with common-sense legislation.”

As senator, Amedure said he wants to address the state’s declining population and opportunities by cutting back regulations that are anti-small business and harm local economies. New York ranked first in

the nation in 2019 for losing population, and lost 76,790 people, according to a recent report from the U.S. Census Bureau.

“We have to address this migration of our youth,” Amedure said. “We have to create opportunities for them. We have to review regulations... especially for small businesses. It’s so difficult for any small business in New York. You can’t keep loading regulations on them.”

Decreasing state taxes goes hand-in-hand with increasing opportunities for the next generation, he said.

“We have to get spending under control,” Amedure said. “I believe the Democrat-dominated state [Legislature] is leading to excessive expenditures. If we tighten our belts in some areas, we can reduce spending in others... That would help have the same effect of keeping more opportunities in upstate New York.

“More than anything, I hope to continue the good work Sen. Amedore has done in the district,” he said.

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CALENDAR Monday, March 9 n Ashland Town Board 7:30

p.m. at the Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Greene County Legislature county services and public works 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill n Greenville CSD BOE 6:30 p.m.

March 9 MS/HS Library, 4976 SR 81, Greenville

FORTNIGHTLY CLUB OF CATSKILL SUPPORTS MUSICAL

Tuesday, March 10 n Cairo Public Library Board of

Trustees at 3:30 p.m. at the Library, 15 Railroad Ave., Cairo 518-6229864 n Catskill Town Planning Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Coxsackie Town Board 7 p.m.

Town Hall, 56 Bailey St., Coxsackie n Coxsackie Village Historic Preservation Committee 6 p.m.

Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Wednesday, March 11 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518-945-1551 n Catskill Town Zoning Board 6 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m.

Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill 518-943-3830 n Greene County Legislature workshop 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill n Jewett Town Board 7 p.m. at the Jewett Municipal Building, 3547 County Route 23C, Jewett

Thursday, March 12 n Greene County Legislature finance audit 4 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill n Windham-Ashland-Jewett CSD BOE audit finance committee 5:15 p.m. in superintendent’s office; regular meeting 6 p.m. in the School Library, 5411 Route 23, Windham

Monday, March 16 n Athens Town Board 6:45 p.m.

Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518945-1052 n Greene County Legislature economic development; Gov. Ops.; finance; and Rep. and Dem. caucus 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill n Greenville Town Board 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 11159 Route 32, Pioneer Building, Greenville

Tuesday, March 17 n Athens Village Planning Board

6:30 p.m. Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518-945-1551 n Durham Town Board 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham n Hunter Town Board 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 5748 Route 23A, Tannersville

Wednesday, March 18 n Cairo Town Board workshop meeting 7 p.m. Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Catskill Library Board 6:45 p.m. at either the Catskill Library, 1 Franklin St., Catskill or Palenville Library, 3303 Route 23A, Palenville n Catskill Central School District BOE 6:30 p.m. High School Library, 341 West Main St., Catskill n Catskill Town Board Committee 6:30 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Election Day 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Greene County Legislature public hearing 6:25 p.m. followed by meeting No. 3 6:30 p.m. economic development; Gov. Ops.; finance; and Rep. and Dem caucus 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill

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The Fortnightly Club of Catskill is happy to support the Catskill High School musical production of “Pippin.” The show will be performed March 27 through March 29 at the high school. More than 60 students will be a part of the cast and crew in this group production.

GREENE COUNTY POLICE BLOTTER Editor’s Note: A charge is not a conviction. All persons listed are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Charges can be amended or dismissed.

STATE POLICE n Melissa D. Andersen, 36, of Coxsackie, was arrested at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 25 in Cairo and charged with third-degree burglary, a class D felony, third-degree criminal mischief and fourth-degree grand larceny, both class E felonies.

She was released on her own recognizance. n Robert L. Simpson, 39, of Catskill, was arrested at 5:45 p.m. Feb. 25 in Catskill and charged with third-degree burglary, a class D felony; third-degree criminal mischief and fourth-degree grand larceny, both class E felonies.

He was held. n Robert J. Gaus, 62, of Athens, was arrested at 5:45 p.m. Feb. 27 in Catskill and charged with three counts of second-degree forgery of a deed/will/contract and two counts of second-degree forgery of a public document, both class D felonies; firstdegree falsifying business records and two counts of issuing a false certificate, both class E felonies; fifth-degree life-settlement fraud and two counts of official misconduct of a public servant, both class A misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Luis F. Valencia, 35, of Commack, was arrested at 11:09 p.m. Feb. 28 in Windham and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Aaron R. Preston, 28, of Earlton, was arrested at 11:50 p.m. Feb. 28 in Coxsackie

and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a bloodalcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Jordan M. Jones, 26, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, was arrested at 5 a.m. Feb. 29 in Athens and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Samuel A. Mahler, 26, of Cornwallville, was arrested at 8:24 p.m. Feb. 29 in Durham and charged with petty larceny, second-degree obstruction of governmental administration and resisting arrest, all class A misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Kayla M. Bremiller, 23, of Cairo, was arrested at 4:10 a.m. March 1 in Catskill and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a bloodalcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Branden R. DiDonna, 32, of Hunter, was arrested at 1:30 a.m. March 1 in Hunter and charged with first-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and driving while intoxicated with a previous conviction, both class E felonies. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Derek A. Butterworth, 31, of Durham, was arrested at 1:20 p.m. March 1 in Cairo and charged with sixth-degree conspiracy, a class B misdemeanor. He was issued an appearance ticket. n David A. Greene, 48, of Windham, was arrested at

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2:#1 p.m. March 1 in Windham and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Omesh Singh, 26, of Schenectady, was arrested at 9 p.m. March 1 in Catskill and charged with aggravated DWI with a child, a class E felony; fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a class A misdemeanor; and operating a motor vehicle with a bloodalcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Brooke D. Sieburg, 26, of Cairo, was arrested at 3:31 p.m. March 2 in Catskill and charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and possession of a hypodermic instrument, both class A misdemeanors. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Sarah J. McCool, 43, of Coxsackie, was arrested at 7:20 p.m. March 2 in New Baltimore and charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class A misdemeanor, and illegal destruction of hypodermic instrument, an unclassified misdemeanor. She was issued an appearance ticket. n David I. Mayforth, 35, of Athens, was arrested at 3:30 p.m. March 2 in Greenport and charged with seconddegree criminal contempt, a class A misdemeanor. He was issued an appearance ticket.

Freihofer’s Training Challenge begins March 16 ALBANY — Women who are interested in completing their first 5K, becoming more competitive runners, or setting a new PR or “personal record,” are invited to join the 10th annual Freihofer’s Training Challenge, which kicks off March 16 at sites throughout the Capital Region.

Participants can sign up for the 11-week couch to 5K program when they register online for the Freihofer’s Run for Women. Online registration through the 5K registration (freihofersrun. com) is the only method of registering for this program.

“Whether it’s your first or 30th time running/walking the 5K, our program can help you. We offer a beginner program for those who are new to running and an intermediate program for those who completed last year’s challenge or want more interval workouts,” said Kristen Hislop, co-director, Freihofer’s Run for Women. “Our advanced program is tailored to those who want to run longer and are ready for focused speed and distance workouts. Our mentors encourage participants to move groups based on how they feel and how they are running. In May, we preview the Freihofer’s course, which is always a fun and uplifting workout.”

The Training Challenge costs $55 and includes a Training Challenge tech shirt; seminars and clinics relating to strength training, nutrition, injury prevention, running form and core strength; and, offers from program partners, including a free 10-week Capital District YMCA membership.

Training Challenge registrants, who are welcome at all locations, are asked to select one of the Monday/Wednesday/Thursday Training Challenge sessions that works for them.

Mondays: The Corning Preserve at 6:30 a.m. (until there is morning light and then it will move to 6 a.m.), The Crossings of Colonie (580 Albany Shaker Road, Loudonville) at either 1 p.m. or 6 p.m.

Wednesdays: at 6 p.m. at these Capital District YMCA branches: Bethlehem (900 Delaware Ave., Delmar),

Greenbush (20 Community Way, East Greenbush), Guilderland (250 Winding Brook Drive), Southern Saratoga (One Wall Street, Clifton Park), and Troy (2500 21st Street).Note: Those choosing a Y location will receive a membership if not already a member.

Thursdays: at 6 p.m. at iRun LOCAL (425 Broadway, Saratoga Springs) Saturday: A group workout session will then be held each Saturday at 8:30 a.m. at Colonie Town Park (71 Schermerhorn Road, Cohoes). This session will conclude with seminars and clinics relating to strength training, nutrition, injury prevention, running form and core strength.

“The program is a gradual build,” explained Hislop.

“Whether you join the beginner or advanced group, each session builds on the previous, so you never do too much. Our beginners will start with 60 seconds of jogging and 90 seconds of walking. We alternate that for a total of 20 minutes.

Each workout includes a dynamic warm-up, followed by stretching at the end. The program is tailored to all levels of runners and certainly all ages.”

For those who can’t attend Freihofer’s Training Challenge sessions in person, but would still like to increase their fitness levels, a virtual Training Challenge program is also offered. The program, which costs $10, features e-mails sent 3-4 times a week outlining workouts for beginner, intermediate and advanced runners.

To register for the Training Challenge or virtual program, visit freihofersrun. com/training-challenge/.

Registration closes on Wednesday, April 1. A dedicated Training Challenge Facebook page can be found at facebook.com/freihoferstrainingchallenge.

For more information, visit freihofersrun.com.

From the home page, you can also link to the event’s Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube pages.

Event sponsors include Freihofer’s, Price Chopper Supermarkets, The City of Albany and 99.5 The River.

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Do the right thing for veterans A proposal to cut $5.6 million from veterans programs in the 2020-21 state budget will be bad for veterans and all communities that support these warriors.

The Joseph P. Dwyer Veteran Peer-to-Peer Program, which mentors veterans with trained peers who have also served in combat, is facing the largest proposed cut at around $4.1 million.

Columbia County’s program is slated to lose $100,000, according to the state Assembly Minority Conference.

“Veterans should be the last thing in the world they should even think about cutting money on,” Command Sgt. Gary Flaherty, executive director of Columbia County Veterans Services, said earlier this week in Albany. “It has helped so many veterans, and we are reaching out to more every day.”

Flaherty, 75, served in the Vietnam War as a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army from 1966-67 near a base camp in Phu Loi, Vietnam. He traveled to the state Capitol to lobby Gov. Andrew Cuomo to restore $5.6 million in proposed cuts to veterans

programs.

In response to the threat of cuts, Flaherty is trying to shed light on the impact peer mentoring and other state and local veterans programs have had on his life and mental health.

Flaherty has suffered from PTSD since his time in combat more than 50 years ago.

He also served a three-year tour at the German-Russian border and in South Korea from 1984-85, which serves as a catalyst for his traumatic memories of Vietnam that came rushing back nearly two decades later.

In cold, hard terms, post traumatic stress disorder affects a variable number of veterans depending on their service era, according to the U.S. Department for Veterans Affairs. About 30% of Vietnam veterans had PTSD in their lifetime, with 15% of those soldiers having a current diagnosis. About 12% of Gulf War veterans and between 11% and 20% of Operation Iraqi Freedom soldiers are diagnosed with PTSD in a given year.

PTSD symptoms include flashbacks, nightmares, eat-

ing disorders, panic attacks, relationship problems and anxiety. Symptoms and severity vary from veteran to veteran, Flaherty said, depending on the trauma they experienced.

Twenty-three percent of women and 38% of men reported sexual assault while in the military, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Flaherty has helped six veterans in Columbia County — four females and two males — who experienced sexual assault while enlisted in the armed forces.

A growing population of young veterans suffering from PTSD is a scary proposition. Local governments need all preventive methods at their disposal to address it effectively. We must remember that these courageous men and women put their lives on the line to protect ours with no debate or argument. The governor and the state Legislature need to keep this in mind as well.

Full funding of the Joseph P. Dwyer Veteran Peer-to-Peer Program should be restored without delay.

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China is using the cover of coronavirus to escalate its repression in Hong Kong The Washington Post

The pro-democracy demonstrations that rocked Hong Kong last year have lulled, in part because the city is under partial lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. You’d think Chinese Communist authorities and their hugely unpopular representatives in the city would breathe a sigh of relief and focus on keeping the population healthy. Instead, they chose last week to escalate the repression of opposition leaders.

On Friday, police arrested Jimmy Lai, the founder of the pro-opposition newspaper Apple Daily, along with two well-known politicians, Lee Cheuk-yan and Yeung Sim. They were charged with participating in an unauthorized march more than six months ago, on Aug. 31, a day hundreds of thousands took to the streets, prompt-

ing bloody assaults by police.

Lai was also charged with criminal intimidation for a 2017 incident in which he exchanged words with a proregime journalist.

Why now? It may be that Beijing sees an opportunity to dispose of key opponents in Hong Kong while the country and the world are preoccupied with the epidemic. A hard-line ally of President Xi Jinping was recently installed as head of the office overseeing the region. Days before the arrests, authorities announced that the head of a Hong Kong publishing house that produced uncensored books about Chinese leaders, Gui Minhai, had been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Or maybe the regime was offended by the latest opinion article by Lai, a self-made millionaire who regularly assails Xi in the pages of The Wall Street Journal, among

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other publications. In a Feb. 19 article, Lai bluntly declared that “the spread of the coronavirus has revealed a truth that poses a much greater risk to Mr. Xi: There is no cure for Chinese communism except the collapse of the party.” His point was that the suppression of information that helped the virus spread has only reinforced the corrosive distrust with which the regime is regarded by both the world and its own people.

Lai, who is in his early 70s, was released on bail but could face trial in the coming months. Hong Kong’s legal system, which was supposed to remain independent via the “one country, two systems” formula under which the former British colony was returned to Chinese sovereignty, no longer can be counted on to uphold the rule of law.

Sensible Americans might be saved from dismay in November WASHINGTON — “Enlightened statesmen,” wrote James Madison, “will not always be at the helm.” His genius extended to understatement, and until Tuesday it was approaching probable that by midnight of November’s first Tuesday, sensible Americans would be elated and distraught — elated because someone grotesquely unsuited to the presidency would have been denied that office, but distraught because such a person had won it.

Together, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump would constitute the most repulsive presidential choice in U.S history. The Democratic Party, however, is not the world’s oldest party because it fecklessly allows its presidential nomination to be grasped by someone who — let us plainly state the most important fact about Sanders — dislikes this nation.

Joe Biden has little to say that is remarkable and he says it in a remarkably meandering manner, but grant his request: Don’t compare him with the Almighty, compare him with the alternative. Florid Bernie Sanders, with his relentless, arm-waving, high-decibel depiction of America’s history and present as a sordid story of injustices, resembles the woman in the Anthony Trollope novel who scolded “frightfully, loudly, scornfully, and worse than all, continually.” Having called this country a “hellhole,” Donald Trump’s first presidential words lamented “American carnage.”

Michelangelo could see a statue in a stone. Sanders and Trump, those temperamental twins, see failure in a republic that multitudes risk death to reach. Whether Biden or Trump is inaugurated next Jan. 20 depends on whether or not Democratic primary voters complete the task of using warm patriotism and cold arithmetic to extinguish Sanders’ fantasies.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, who noted Theodore Roosevelt’s “strenuous vagueness,” would have marveled at Sanders’ pixie-dust

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WILL calculations. Trump’s congressional accomplices will solemnly lecture that Sanders portends fiscal recklessness, but a nation snoozing through trillion-dollar deficits might shrug about Sanders’ indifference to multi-trillion-dollar details about his agenda. “Yeah, but I won’t be here,” was Trump’s response when someone possessing the patience of Job explained to him the unsustainable trajectory of entitlement programs. Sanders’ response probably would be similarly breezy were he informed that confiscating every dime of every billionaire would not come close to paying for his Tinkertoy approach to government: Pull apart and reassemble entire sectors of society (e.g., health care’s one-sixth of the economy).

Gulliver in his travels met someone like Sanders working on “a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers.”

If Sanders is not nominated, his seething core supporters, for whom indignation is as delicious as bacon (or the vegan equivalent), will not use their indoor voices or play nicely with a nominee who won fewer delegates than Sanders won before the convention. Sanders, who is nonjudgmental about Cuba’s “different value system,” has said — stay tuned — it is a high moral imperative that the convention jettison the rule that the nominee must have a majority, not a plurality, of delegates. A second convention ballot would create a second convention by infusing 771 superdelegates — elected officials and other party leaders — into the process.

Excluding them from this year’s first ballot advanced

the century-old progressive goal of reducing conventions to ratifying rather than deliberative bodies.

The convention will act on something made obvious by Sanders’ most telling shellackings Tuesday, in the swing states Virginia and North Carolina: With Sanders atop every ticket, down-ballot carnage probably would engulf many state legislature candidates in this census year — before 2022, some state legislatures will redraw congressional districts — which would enable Republican-controlled legislatures to disadvantage Democratic congressional candidates for a decade.

After Tom Steyer spent about $400 for each of his 61,048 South Carolina votes, Michael Bloomberg’s approximately $500 million bought this pearl beyond price: the affection of American Samoa. These redundant refutations of the theory that money can make vanity candidacies viable should calm those campaign “reformers” whose superstition is that the power of political money is such that government should regulate it (and by doing so stipulate the permissible quantity of political speech it can finance).

Sanders’ prodigious fundraising can keep him campaigning but cannot fend off the failure that certainly awaits him now that Bloomberg, by his withdrawal, has underscored Democrats’ determination to let nothing interfere with defeating Trump. So, the country soon can turn to considering this: Biden has twice experienced an agony that has become relatively rare but until recently in the human story was commonplace, that of a parent burying a child.

This might be related to his approach to politics as an arena of transactions, not of ever-impending tragedies.

Such emotional maturity is a prerequisite for restoring national equilibrium.

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Sarkis A. Beojekian Mr. Sarkis A. Beojekian, 88, Mr. Beojekian is survived of Fort Myers, Fl and Cairo, by his beloved wife, Nelta; two NY, passed away on Sunday, daughters and one son-in-law, March 1, 2020 at the Charles Cynthia Pena of Athens, NY T. Sitrin Health Care Center in and Nancy and Tim Mahay of New Hartford, NY. Utica, NY; one son, David BeoSarkis was born in Cairo, NY jekian of Colorado; five cheron December 31, 1931, the son ished grandchildren, Melissa of Artin and Helen Beojekian and Nick Morra, Shaina Pena, and received his eduTimothy and Alison cation at Cairo High Mahay, Daniel and School. Sarkis honorTammy Mahay and ably served in the US Michael and Alyssa Navy from 1951-1955.

Mahay; one sister, AkOn June 9, 1957, Sarabe Smith, as well as kis was united in marsix great grandchildren riage with Nelta E. Janand several nieces and sen at Zion Lutheran nephews. He was preChurch in Athens, NY. deceased by his brothFor many years, Sarkis Beojekian er, Jack Beojekian. was employed with NY Relatives and friends are Telephone Company, retiring in 1990. He was a sports enthusi- invited to a memorial service ast who enjoyed Tennis, Golf, on Monday, March 9, 2020 at hunting, fishing and bowling. 11:00 a.m. at Zion Lutheran Sarkis was a 50 years Mason Church, Athens, NY. Online and a member of the Masonic guestbook and messages of Lodge in Catskill, NY and was sympathy at www.heintzfunerof the Lutheran faith. alservice.net

Beverly L. Syzdek Beverly L. Syzdek, 70, longtime resident of Hudson, passed away peacefully March, 5, 2020.

She was born in Hudson, on March 22, 1949, the daughter of the late Harry G. and Beverly (Frost) Warner.

She graduated from Hudson High School, then went on to attend SUNY Plattsburgh, before earning her Masters from Russell Sage College. She was a kindergarten teacher in the Claverack School prior to her retirement. Beverly loved her cats, and gardening. She was a devoted daughter who retired so that she could care for her father. She will be remembered for her strong will, independence and caring personality.

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dren; Kathleen and her husband Charles Brown, and David and his wife Elizabeth Syzdek. Her five grandchildren; Jeremy, Ian, and Ashely Syzdek, and Andy and Teddy Brown. Also surviving is her brother; John Warner.

In addition to her parents, Beverly is also predeceased by her paternal grandmother; Melicent (Payne) Warner.

Visitation will be Monday, March 9, 2020 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the Bates & Anderson – Redmond & Keeler Funeral Home, 110 Green Street, Hudson, NY. Beverly’s family wishes to thank her exceptional caregivers, Dolce, Shannon, Kammie, and Tony, as well as the Community Hospice of Columbia and Greene Counties.

Stephen J. Tuomey Stephen J. Tuomey, born July 11, 1934, raised in Cold Spring, NY, passed away suddenly on March 4, 2020. He was pre-deceased by his wife of 57 years, Elizabeth “Vera” Tuomey on June 15, 2019.

He is survived by 3 sons, Stephen B. (Kelly), Andrew and Cornelius “Neil” (Tonya) Tuomey. He is also survived by granddaughters Cailyn (Jesse) and Brooke, grandson Michael, and great grandson Jesse James.

Steve was one of 5 boys, predeceased by brothers James, Brooks, and Peter, survived by one brother Cornelius “Connie” Tuomey, as well as many nieces and nephews with families. He met his wife while working on the hotel industry in New York City. Steve moved his wife and two sons to this area in order to be assistant manager at the New York City Police Recreation Centre in Platte Clove. After a few years, the family moved into the Village of Tannersville where they added 2 more boys. Living in the village, he began to build his greatest relationship with the community. Steve strengthened that relationship with the community by working for Wally Gallagher at Kaaterskill Liquors, bartending at many local establishments, as well as volunteering in many organizations.

He joined the Tannersville Fire Department and was part of establishing the Rescue Squad.

Over the years, he was also part of the Town of Hunter & Greene County Democratic Committee, National Rural Water Society & Mountaintop Golden Agers.

Steve served as Mayor of the village of Tannersville 1977-1979.

There were so many activities that Steve was involved in, that even Vera would argue with him about it, but she always knew that he was helping someone out doing it. As what he would do with the community, he also did with his family. Anyone that met Steve was told of his pride towards his family.

The family is requesting in lieu of flowers to please donate to the 2 groups that Steve prided himself in, Tannersville Fire Department and the Mountaintop Golden Agers. Services will be at Aston-Basagic Funeral Home in Hunter on March 9, 2020 from 5-8PM and church service on Match 10, 2020 at Immaculate Conception Church in Haines Falls at 11 AM. Due to the season, burial will take place later in the spring. At that time, Stephen will be buried alongside his wife Vera and son Michael. He will never be forgotten by many he touched.

Singapore to introduce new cleanliness rules amid coronavirus outbreak Faris Mokhtar and Philip J. Heijmans Bloomberg

The deadly coronavirus, which has now spread to more than 70 countries worldwide, looks to be becoming a global pandemic, Singapore’s National Development Minister Lawrence Wong said on Friday.

With cases emerging throughout Europe and in the U.S. “it is starting to look like a global pandemic everywhere in the world and as I said it is not going to be possible to shut ourselves out,” said Wong, who is co-chair of a multi-ministry task force established to deal with the virus.

“In fact, the bigger risk is importation of cases from countries where we have not had travel restrictions because the countries with travel restrictions may very well have contained the virus,” he said.

The World Health Organization has been criticized for stopping short of calling the rapidly-spreading coronavirus a pandemic, which it defines as the worldwide spread of a new disease. That designation could spur countries to roll out higherlevel, emergency-grade response plans around the globe -- and bring more disruptions to daily life.

Singapore’s slower virus case growth is a marked contrast to the more rapid spread in some other developed Asian economies including South Korea and Japan. That has led to questions about whether Singapore’s aggressive containment actions could be a model for other countries to copy, or if its unique circumstances as an advanced city-state with tight government controls mean its solutions aren’t easily repeatable.

By Friday, the number of cases globally approached 100,000 as the outbreak in the U.S. gathered pace, and China and South Korea continued to report new infections and deaths. Singapore has tallied 117 confirmed cases as of Thursday evening, while a total of 81 have fully recovered and been discharged from the hospital.

Earlier this month in the U.S., National

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Institutes of Health infectious-disease expert Anthony Fauci told NBC News the coronavirus outbreak had now reached “likely pandemic proportions,” a reporter at the network said in a tweet.

Nevertheless, Singapore has stopped short of calling the outbreak a pandemic.

“Because it is often a largely emotional element associated with this term it may be better to be more precise in our choice of words rather than use the word pandemic,” Health Minister Gan Kim Yong, who is also a co-chair of the task force said at the press conference on Friday morning.

“Perhaps it would be more accurate talking about how it spread across countries.”

In the latest effort to quell transmission in Singapore, the government on Friday said it will amend its environmental public health laws later this year to introduce mandatory cleaning standards. It will cover public cleanliness standards on the frequency of disinfection of high contact areas, pest management and back-of-house waste management.

“Although Singapore is generally considered a clean and green city, we want to further step up cleanliness and hygiene standards in all facets of our lives, and

make these our new norms,” Environment and Water Resources Minister Masagos Zulkifli said in a statement.

While the penalties for an offense under the new standards are not yet known, Singapore is known for its strict laws. Those caught littering or spitting at a public place face a maximum fine of S$2,000 for first offense while repeat offenders could be penalized up to S$10,000.

The first person in Singapore to be charged for cheating mask buyers amid the outbreak was handed three more charges on Friday after allegedly scamming victims out of about S$185,000 for more than 900 boxes of surgical face masks, Channel News Asia reported.

Despite the measures, Singapore continues to see new cases arising. This week it received an imported case of an individual who arrived in the city-state on a Turkish Airlines flight. The Health Ministry said the passenger was symptomatic while on board the flight and authorities will identify, contact trace and quarantine cabin crew as well as passengers who were sitting within two rows of him.

Bloomberg’s Melissa Cheok contributed to this report.

Crushed by a tornado, Nashville picks up the pieces Meryl Kornfield and Matt McClain The Washington Post

Nashville is accustomed to a bit of noise: roaring crowds, booming instruments and sonorous singing.

But the deafening tornado that tore apart the Music City just after midnight on Tuesday was unexpected. In the cover of night, it carved a 53.4-mile path, taking landmarks and lives with it. When the sun rose that day, Tennessee discovered 24 people dead and hundreds of homes and businesses inhabitable or gone altogether.

In one of the hardest-hit Nashville areas, Five Points, known for its chic shops, thriving dive bars and delicious bites, signs and trees were plucked from the ground, roofs were peeled from walls, and businesses were smashed beyond recognition.

The twister was rated an EF-3 with maximum winds estimated at 165 mph - one mile per hour shy of the threshold for the EF-4 category.

On Tuesday, stunned residents stumbled through the shambles, witnessing the record-setting damage inflicted on their town. Pedestrians carried flashlights to see the wreckage before dawn. Driving was near-impossible as debris speckled streets.

The eclectic neighborhood was one of the city’s most visited areas. Within a compact

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Apple extended its recent sell-off as analysts continue to see uncertainty over how the coronavirus outbreak will affect the iPhone maker’s sales and supply chain.

Bank of America wrote that Apple’s highly anticipated 5G iPhone could see its fall release delayed by a month as a result of the outbreak. The firm cited a conversation with an expert on the company’s supply chain, Elliot Lan. Lan also expects the launch of the iPhone SE2 will be delayed “by

a few months” due to “both supply issues as well as the weaker demand environment from COVID-19.”

According to BofA analyst Wamsi Mohan, the launch timing for upcoming models will “depend on how production ramps back up in April and May.” Earlier this week, iPhone maker Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. said it expects its Chinese plants to begin operating normally by the end of March.

Shares of Apple fell as much as 4% on Friday before paring the drop to 2.4% at 11:09 a.m. in New York. The stock

has fallen 13% since its record close on Feb. 12, in line with the S&P 500’s decline over that period.

Also on Friday, Deutsche Bank cut its price target to $295 from $305, citing “considerable uncertainty” related to the outbreak.

Apple’s second-quarter results are expected to be released around the end of next month. Currently, Wall Street expects adjusted earnings of about $2.71 a share and revenue of $61.5 billion.

The consensus for earnings has dropped 9.6% over the past month, according to data

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People walk by damage in the Five Points area on Thursday in Nashville, Tenn.

radius, visitors frequently meandered through shops and galleries, grabbed grub at eateries, and listened to one of the city’s many country music acts perform at venues. | Basement East, an iconic music venue in Nashville, was nearly flattened. One wall that persisted has an “I believe in Nashville” red, white and blue mural painted on it.

One of the oldest buildings damaged in the historic area was East End United Methodist Church. The congregation bought that parcel on the corner of 13th and Holly streets more than 100 years ago, according to the church’s website.

On Tuesday, the corner was littered with bricks and cinder blocks from the walls of the church. Stained-glass windows had been blown out.

Despite the pervasive destruction, most Nashville residents took refuge in time. But not everyone could.

Michael Dolfini, 36, and Albree Sexton, 33, were struck and killed by debris in Five Points, just as they left the Attaboy lounge, where Dolfini worked, the Metro Nashville Police Department announced Tuesday morning.

Sexton had died at the scene, while Dolfini died after arriving at a hospital.

About 40 buildings in Nashville alone were flattened, the city’s fire chief told reporters on Tuesday. Even a day after surveying the damage, city officials still weren’t sure how to quantify the amount of damage caused - or how much it would cost to repair.

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compiled by Bloomberg, while the revenue view is down 5.5% over the same period.

UBS on Friday wrote that “the risk of lower demand in the near-term is increasing” for Apple, and that the impact was “likely to expand beyond China.” Analyst Timothy Arcuri added that while he had expected some demand would simply be delayed, “given the broader impact, we now think the demand impact could continue” into June.

The firm has a buy rating and $355 price target, but it is “cautious in the near-term -- particularly on the demand

side if the U.S. suddenly goes into a multi-[quarter] recession.”

On a more positive note, Nomura Instinet analyst Jeffrey Kvaal stood by his recent comments that Apple’s supply chain was seeing a faster recovery than he expected. The “risk of a major supply shock is declining,” he wrote. Supply constraints “seem likely to be short term in nature.”

Relative to supply constraints, he added, “we hope and expect that potential demand declines are less severe.”

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Forcing trees and shrubs to Still in the game — with bloom indoors snap, crackle, pop In a little over a month, depending on the weather, our annual display of spring flowering shrubs will commence.

The Greenville historian, Don Teator, has been compiling data on when certain plants begin to and then reach peak bloom, each year since 2011. Don puts this information in a spreadsheet and has shared it with me.

There can be quite a disparity in bloom times. Forsythia, for example, has bloomed as early as March 21 in 2012, and as late as April 28 in 2018, at his house in Freehold. From what I hear from many of you readers, this past winter has been pretty warm and mild, so perhaps we will experience an early spring.

By late February/early March, most of us could use a little bit of spring. The short days and mostly grey/brown landscape are starting to get old looking. This is especially true for folks who do not participate in winter sports such as skiing, snowshoeing, ice fishing or snowmobiling.

Some lucky old guys, like me, get to sit it out 1,000 miles south of here! March can be an awful month, in some years with the worst winter weather of the entire season!

One easy way to get a glimpse of springtime is to force some twigs to bloom indoors right now, in the dead of winter. Whether it is a late or early spring, this guarantees some pretty flowers in only about two weeks.

By January, most spring flowering trees and shrubs have satisfied their chilling requirement, which means the cold temperatures over the previous two months have broken down a chemical

GARDENING TIPS

BOB

BEYFUSS inside the plants that keeps them dormant for the winter.

Once the plant has warmed up and begins to absorb water, it can bloom and begin to grow.

It will be a while before this happens outside, but you can fool Mother Nature by making cuttings on some woody plants right now and within a few weeks they will burst into bloom indoors.

Almost any spring flowering tree or shrub is a candidate for forcing, but some are easier than others. The yellowflowered forsythia is perhaps the easiest plant to force, but others such as pussy willow, flowering quince, crabapple, cherry, flowering almond, shadbush and even lilac and rhododendrons or azalea may work.

Trees like red maple, birch, willow and even hickory can also be forced to grow new leaves that are almost as attractive as those species that have conspicuous flowers.

The forcing process is really quite simple. Get out your pruning shears and find a few spring flowering shrubs or trees to make cuttings from.

Look for branches with conspicuous flower buds on the twigs. Flower buds are usually rounder and fatter than buds that will produce leaves. The

flower buds are very easily noticed on trees such as red maple, or shrubs like rhododendron. Many shrubs, such as forsythia, produce their flower buds on last season’s growth so they will be located near the ends of the twigs.

Others produce flower buds on 2-year-old twigs so they will be located lower down on the twigs, beneath last year’s growth. Most fruit trees produce their flowers on short lateral branches called spurs, which are often located a foot or more below the terminal buds.

Select twigs that are about as thick as a pencil and make cuttings on these that are at least 18 inches long. Be careful not to make too many cuttings on any given plant or you will ruin the normal spring display. A well-budded forsythia will not miss a few branches, nor will a crabapple, but rhododendrons and azaleas should be pruned lightly.

Soak the cut branches in lukewarm water overnight in a bathtub, washtub or sink to fully moisten and warm up the wood. After the initial soak, crush an inch or so of the bottom of the twig with a hammer. Next, place the branches in a pail of lukewarm water until the buds swell.

Once you can detect a hint of flower color remove the twigs from the pail and arrange in a vase. Change the water every few days and put the vase in a bright, but cool, location.

Soon you will be enjoying the flowers that normally arrive in April or May. When the flowers fade just discard the twigs and start over again.

Reach Bob Beyfuss at rlb14@cornell.edu.

I find the whole process of aging to be fascinating. Things change on an almost daily basis.

Minor aches and pains keep appearing where they never appeared before, migrating from joint to joint like homeless geese. These are a comfort to me ever since a friend of mine told me, “If you wake up in the morning and nothing hurts, lie down, you’re dead.”

I think of this saying every morning when I get out of bed and try to stand erect. I head towards the bathroom to the music of “The Cartilage Chorus,” a series of cracks, creaks and pops as each body part finds its position for the day.

A hot shower and a quick rub down with WD40 and the excitement of getting dressed for the activities of the day is next.

Telly, my trusty canine companion, is usuallAy there to cheer me on for the daily bout of sock wrestling. As you age, your arms shorten, your legs lengthen and your stomach enlarges, which makes the lassoing of a big toe with the top of your sock an athletic endeavor of the first order. With Telly’s encouragement, I can usually accomplish the deed

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DICK

BROOKS on the second or third try.

Snap, crackle and pop comes next. Those used to be the sounds of one of my favorite breakfast cereals, now it’s the sounds my knees make going down stairs.

Much to my delight, as I watch Father Time ravaging my body, my mind continues to function as it always had. In spite of my advancing years, mentally I remain as sharp as a — as sharp as a — you know, that little round thing with the pointy thing on it.

I continue to learn daily.

Recently I learned that I can save a considerable amount of time by changing my standard greeting when I meet a friend or acquaintance. “Hi, How are you?” used to work well; that

was back in the days when their answer was “Fine, and you?” Now, by the time they have run through their list of ailments and doctors they have visited since I saw them last, and which of our mutual friends has died or is in the hospital, and I’ve run through my list for their enlightenment, more than half the day has been frittered away. A smile and a grunt gets me on my way quickly, or at least as quickly as arthritis, gout and a failing knee joint will allow me.

I’m not complaining — I’m still in the game. Sometimes I’m playing hurt, but I’m still playing, and that’s a good thing. You’ve got to be tough to be old, but life is still so good even if it hurts at times.

The worst part about aging is saying goodbye to friends and loved ones.

Thought for the week — “Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.” — Steven Wright Until next week, may you and yours be happy and well.

Reach Dick Brooks at whittlingaway@yahoo.com.

Greene County Women’s League Cancer Patient Aid announces 2020 meeting schedule CAIRO — The Greene County Women’s League Cancer Patient Aid announces the 2020 membership meeting schedule.

The league meets the first Tuesday of the month April through December at Angel’s Family Restaurant,

4385 Route 23, Cairo. Lunch is at noon and the meeting is at 1 p.m. The Greene County Women’s League Cancer Patient Aid (CGWL) welcomes new members. 2020 meeting dates are as follows April 7, May 5, June 2, July 7, August is the fundraising luncheon

(special ticket purchase required), Sept. 8, Oct. 6, Nov. 3 and December is the Christmas Party (special ticket purchase required). For information, call 518-819-1249 or www.greenecountywomensleague.com/become-amember.

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MARCH 7 ATHENS — The Greene Land Trust will host an evening of traditional Irish food and music at 6 p.m. March 7 at the historic 1788 Willows at Brandow Point, Route 385, Catskill. Live music by “Lawson, Traditional Music of Ireland,” will provide entertainment. The dinner will include corned beef and cabbage, shepherd’s pie, Guinness stew, bangers and mash, colcannon, an Irish soup, Irish Soda bread, and dessert. Coffee and non-alcoholic beverages will be provided. Tickets may be ordered online for $32 (to cover administrative fee) by visiting www.greenelandtrust.org or by check for $30 mailed to Greene Land Trust, 270 Mansion St., Coxsackie, NY 12051. For information call 518-731-5544.

VOORHEESVILLE — Nature Art Show Opening 1-4 p.m. March 7 at Thacher Nature Center, 87 Nature Center Way, Voorheesville. Come and be inspired by the works of talented local artists. The exhibit will feature nature-inspired artwork in a variety of media including watercolors, oils, photography, clay, fiber, and wood. Meet the artists and enjoy complimentary refreshments. The Nature Art Exhibit will be on display at the Nature Center 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, through March 28; closed on Mondays.

Call 518-872-0800 for information.

SELKIRK — The Bethlehem Grange 137 will serve a corned beef and cabbage dinner 4-7 p.m. March 7 at the Grange,

24 Bridge St., Selkirk. Eat in or take out available. The menu includes dessert and beverage. Adults and children 12 and older, $12; children 5-11, $6; children under 5, free. The building is handicapped accessible. There will also be a basket raffle.

MARCH 10 MECHANICVILLE — Society Of American MagiciansAssembly 24 will meet at 7:30 p.m. March 20 at St. Luke’s on the Hill Church, 40 McBride Road, Mechanicville. All persons, 16 and older, interested in the various aspects of the hobby of magic are invited to attend. For information, visit WWW.SAM24.SYNTHASITE. COM.

MARCH 11 NEW BALTIMORE — The New Baltimore Conservancy presents Avoiding Lyme Disease at 7:30 p.m. March 11 at Cornell Hook and Ladder, 77 Gill Road, New Baltimore. Join Cornell University’s Joellen Lampman as she talks about the different ticks in our areas and their biology, the diseases they carry, dealing with ticks on your property and how to protect yourself and others from being bitten. Free tick

removal kits for attendees that agree to participate in a short survey. Admission is free and open to the public.

MARCH 14 ROUND TOP — The Round Top Volunteer Fire Dept.

Ladies Auxiliary will serve a corned beef and cabbage dinner 3-6 p.m. March 14 at the Round Top Firehouse, Route 31, Round Top. The menu includes corned beef, cabbage, red potatoes, carrots, rye bread, soda bread, beverages and dessert. Eat in or take out.

The cost is $12.

CATSKILL — The Catskill Fire Co. Ladies Auxiliary will be holding a Hot Sub Sale 4-6:30 p.m. March 14 at the firehouse, 422 Main St., Catskill.

There will be choice of Pepperoni, Sausage & Pepper or Meatball Subs. The cost is $8 each. Eat in or take out.

VOORHEESVILLE — Paint a Serene River Scene 10 a.m.3:30 p.m. March 14 at Thacher Nature Center, 87 Nature Center Way, Voorheesville.

Create an oil painting of a serene river scene with local accomplished artist and teacher

We do everything you would expect

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Submitting obituaries Filing insurance claims Ordering death certificates Providing Notary services Preparing veteran benefits paperwork Assistance with monument engraving ...and much more!

Karen Woodin. Participants of all skill levels will receive instructions on various oil painting techniques and complete their own 18 x 18 oil painting to take home. Course fee of $75 includes all materials. Registration and prepayment are required. Bring a bag lunch, light refreshments will be provided. Space is limited, call 518-872-0800 to register.

DELMAR — The Albany Figure Skating Club will hold its annual Spring Ice Show 4-6 p.m. March 14 at the Bethlehem YMCA, 900 Delaware Ave., Delmar.

This exhibition will feature solo, group, and synchronized skating performances by figure skaters from all over the Capital District.

A bake sale will also be held, with all proceeds supporting the Albany Figure Skating Club’s activities and programs. Admission is $5; $3 for seniors and students; and free for children 5 and younger. For information about the Spring Ice Show, contact Elissa Baker at 518-441-7978 or info@albanyfsc.org, or visit the Club’s website at www.albanyfsc.org.

CATSKILL — Catskill Elks

Lodge, 45 North Jefferson Ave., Catskill, will be hosting a Corn Hole Tournament March 14.

Registration begins at noon.

The entry fee is $20. There will be cash prizes for first and second place winners. For information, call 518-947-1080.

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Church Briefs CHICKEN BARBECUE EAST BERNE — Helderberg Christian School, 96 Main St., East Berne, will hold a Brooks House of Barbecue fundraiser 4-6:30 p.m. or until sold out March 12. Drive through, take out only. Chicken dinner, $12 pre-ordered; $13 day of. Call 518-499-5416 by March 11 to preorder.

OPEN HOUSE EAST BERNE — Helderberg Christian School, 96 Main St., East Berne, will hold an open house 5-7 p.m.

March 13 and 10 a.m.-noon March 14. Meet staff, visit classrooms, preview curriculum and preregister for the

2020-2021 school year. For directions and information, call 518-499-5416.

CORNED BEEF AND CABBAGE DINNER SOUTH BETHLEHEM — The South Bethlehem United Methodist Church, 67 Willowbrook Ave., South Bethlehem, will hold serve a corned beef and cabbage dinner with bake sale 4:30-7 p.m.

March 13. Eat in or take out.

Adults, $10; children 6-12, $5; children 5 and younger, free. For information, call Emily Shutter at 518-8130661.

ROAST BEEF DINNER COXSACKIE

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Coxsackie United Methodist Church, 103 Mansion St., Coxsackie, will serve a roast beef dinner 5-7 p.m. March 21. For delivery, call 518694-4143 by March 20. Take out from 3:30-5 p.m. Adults and seniors, $13; children 5-12, $7; children under 5, free. There is a handicapped lift available.

SPRING/EASTER CRAFT FAIR SOUTH BETHLEHEM — The South Bethlehem United Methodist Church, 67 Willowbrook Ave., South Bethlehem, will hold a Spring/ Easter craft fair 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

March 28. Join us for the Vendor Craft Fair. Breakfast and lunch will be available

Cairo-Durham High School announces second quarter honor roll for 2019-2020 school year CAIRO — Cairo-Durham High School announces the second quarter honor roll for the 2019-2020 school year.

Lipari, Rachel Newkirk, Nitalia Risley, Joshua Teator, Leah Torres, April Walcott.

GRADE 12

High Honor Roll: Kylie Bauer, Preston Culver, Thanhvy Dinh, Kadie Galewaler, Connor Handel, Crystal Ivery, Aryah Kargoe, Aniston Keff, Steven Maggio, XXaria Makely, Giovanna Manoli, Thalia Melendez, Ethan Phillips, Amber Powell, Katelynn Ross, Brianna Shermerhorn, Drew Sirago, Mackenzie Thompson, Dennis Thorpe.

Honor Roll: Zachary Abrams, Ethan Acker, Jerome Byrne, Jaxon Conti, Logan Fisher, Virginia Galewaler, Anna-K James, Logan Kirstein, Daniela Lemus, Corbin Rivenburg, Dante Rivera Coyne-Alvarez, Diego Rivera, Gabriela Rivera.

High Honor Roll: Noah Alfeld, Leena Anderson, Ryley Berg, Laney Bruck, Jasmine Carlsen, Alexis Clevenstine, Madelyn Constantine, Jennifer Cuti, Dante DiGiovanni, Erin Dunn, Cali Ely, Sarah Fisher, Nicole Flaherty, Courtney Gagne, Trisha Gagne, Colin Gleason, Alyssa Jackson, Loren Knudsen, Christina Markiewicz, Jordan Metzler, Dylan Morgan, Jillian Navatto, Josef Orin, Damian Parmelee, Kirstyn Peterson, Samantha Piedra Gamboa, Ashley Powell, Melissa Rompolski, Jazmin Russo, Armando Salvatore, Charles Sternbach, Emily Stiverson, Madison Stock, Caroline Thompson, Ashley Vaughn, Tyler Zeeb.

Honor Roll: Harry Baldwin, Rachel Bink, Shoshanna Byrne, Katelyn Casivant, Gianna Colon, Mark Lasher, Nicholas

GRADE 11

GRADE 10 High Honor Roll: Khyle Alo, Kyra Byrne, Angela Cooper, Arden FarnsworthMoore, Kylie Kleinmeier, Lillian LaBounty, Robert Lampman, Ally MacGiffert, Olivia

MacGiffert, Mckayla Mudge, James Mutinsky, Arianna Myers, Kiyana Pereira, Colleen Unzelman.

Honor Roll: Megan Coons, Angelo DellaMonica, Tyler Jackson, Mikayla Khadijah, Christian Rendon Agustin, Thomas Rohan, Korryn Ruger, Kaya Russo, Evelyn Schirripa.

GRADE 9 High Honor Roll: Antonio Brooks, Sadie Hall, Brina Halvorsen, Wyatt Handel, Lily Johnson Cole, Caitlyn Loucks, Casey Macklin, Jenna Maggio, Savanna Martines, Nolen McCabe, Dean Parmelee, Gianna Pernice, William Sherburne, Connor Shields, Skylar VanTassel, Gavin Warner.

Honor Roll: Noelle Amoroso, Loretta Canzaniello, Lauren Coletti, Yahzeahn Green, Korinee HawleyGrace Herbek, Hailey Lasher, Mason Messenger, Hailey Morrison, Saadia Nance, Rachel Ott, Breeley Rawls, Angelina Saxe, Sierra Speed-Prosser, Christopher Sperano, Catherine Stallbohm.

Coxsackie-Athens presents ‘The Wizard of Oz’, March 13, 14 COXSACKIE — “The Wizard of Oz” will be performed by the Coxsackie-Athens High School Drama Club at 7 p.m. March 13 and 2 and 7 p.m. March 14 at the Coxsackie-Athens High School,

24 Sunset Blvd., Coxsackie.

General admission, $10; students and seniors, $6. Tickets will be available at the door. This C.A. Drama Club production is directed by the team of Charlie Herwick,

Steve Kowalski and Helen (Rosenfield) Kelly. The cast and crew consists of approximately 50 students from Coxsackie-Athens High School.

plus a bake sale to support our Church Women United.

The Thrift Shop ‘Boutique’ will be open as well. Come out to support small business, shop, and eat. Contact Emily Shutter at 518-8130661 for further information.

SPRING FAIR COXSACKIE — The Coxsackie United Methodist Church, 103 Mansion St., Coxsackie, will hold a spring fair 9 a.m.-2 p.m. March 28.

Lunch will be served 11 a.m.1 p.m. There will be crafts and a food sale. The church is handicapped accessible.

NICKEL SOCIAL COXSACKIE — St. Mary’s

of Coxsackie Youth Ministry annual Nickel Social will be held April 4 at the Hose Company 3, 218 Mansion St., Coxsackie. Doors open at 5 p.m. and drawings will begin at 6 p.m. There will be Specialty Tables, Door Prizes, and a 50/50 raffle. Refreshments will be available for purchase. Proceeds will benefit St. Mary’s Youth Ministry.

Every other year, St. Mary’s sends youth to the National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC), which will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana in November 2021.

RUMMAGE SALE CATSKILL — First Reformed Church of Catskill,

310 Main St., Catskill annual Spring Rummage Sale will be held 9 a.m.-5 p.m. April 17 and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. April 18.

CRAFT FESTIVAL SEEKING APPLICANTS RICHFIELD 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 13 in Spring Park on Scenic US Route 20. For information, an application and festival details go to www.rschurchofchristuniting.com or call Carla at 315-858-1451 or Sue at 315-858-2681.

Cairo-Durham Middle School announces second quarter honor roll for the 2019-2020 school year CAIRO — Cairo-Durham Middle School announces the second quarter honor roll for the 2019-2020 school year.

Stannard, Anthony Sternbach, Kaylee VanWagner, Jonathan Zyryi.

GRADE 8

Principal’s Honor Roll: Jessica Baeckmann, Kevin Feeney, Rose Fucito, Neera Halvorsen, Rachel Maggio, Anthony Panicola, Kaylan Rennig, Ryan Shelhamer, Carly Simmons, Drew Warner, Lauren Zecca.

High Honor Roll: Connor Alberson, Gabriel Dugan, Adam Henry, Danasia King, Kaylie Long, Alan Lopez-Agustin, Natalie McGuire, Tenley O’Connell, Richard Phillips, Dezaray Riley, Luciana Ross, Lenesha Sanpal, Andrew Searing-Burke, Lindsay Shelhamer, Ava Walton, Isobel Weinberger.

Honor Roll: Ally Barnett, Hanna Budz, Dylan Burke-Retell, Margo Cochrance, Richard Crianza, Gabriel Davis, Briana Frey, Dylan Galtieri, Julia Herbek, Kaylee Ireland, Mackenzie Meacher, Isabelle Neves, Michael Ready, Jenna Relyea, Loki Rhoades, Natalie Ruger, Brianne Schmitz, William Stallbohm, Lauren Thompson, Kairi Williams.

Principal’s Honor Roll: Nova Conti, Brendan Feeney, Alexander Gouza, Emma Kargoe, Colin MacGiffert, Connor Palmer, Hannah Ranzer, Echo Roe, Zachary Russell.

High Honor Roll: Ashley Beck, Emelia Biondolillo, Kennedy Bleau, Abigail Brandow, Constantine Burgan, Jenna Cammarata, Chloe Cunningham, Lance Curless, Joshua Cuti, Morgan Deyo, Ciarra Falvey, Ava Goss, Tashana James, Skyler Kelly, Adrian McGuire, Ayla Neves, Jacklyn Nielsen, Cole Partridge, Kaitlyn Peterson, Ariana Powers, Mercedes Relyea, Rhea Smith, Savannah Thomas, Zak Wagor, Tatyanna Young.

Honor Roll: Marc Cammarata, Grace Cuti, Elexzandreah Desmarais, Minhtri Dinh, Nathan DuHart, Skylee Gregory, Hailie Hague, Amyia Hall, Dakota Kilmer, Robert Kinney Jr., Braiden Marcell, Jose Mejia Deyo, Sara Mickle, Alexander Nieves, Michael Premo, Hailey Schrull, Jaylin Shores, Aidon

GRADE 7

GRADE 6

Principal’s Honor Roll: Kingston Czajkowski, Addison Hall, Nicholas Olivett, Nathaniel Porter, Issabella Zelinsky.

High Honor Roll: Avery Amoroso, Alexander Bender, Aiden Biondolillo, Deacon Brown, Toni Curry, Amiliana DuHart, Shannon Gavin, Aaylla Heines, Robert Ivery, Chase Kelly, Madison Lehamn, Diana Lemus, Julian Miller, Emily Moon, Bridget Murphy, Daniel Mutinsky, Lyla Nance, Alaina Porter, Sophia Rennig, Luca Rhoades, Kaitlyn Russell, Jonathan Saad, Jordin Shores, Nathan Skaggs, Aishwarya Thakur, Talia Thibodeau, Grace VanGurp, Zoe Vogel.

Honor Roll: Wyatt Cammarata, Breanna Colon, Dominique Crianza, Julianna Davis, Alexis Hammond, David Hernandez, Desiree Jenes, Jayda Johnson, Joseph Kahle, Cloey Kinney, Jade Mancuso, Nicolo Martines, Michael Maynard, Fion Mooney, Andrew Moran, Gavin Palmieri, Lois Pitt, Logan Rhoades, Oliver Schrull, Hope Thomas, Aubrey Tompkins, Javier Torres-Macias, Nathaniel Underwood, Candace Vlasaty, Logan Walz, William Woodcock, Joseph Zindell.

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

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

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New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning answers questions during a press conference announcing his retirement at Quest Diagnostics Training Center.

Eli Manning didn’t have dinner with the Bears Dan Wiederer Chicago Tribune

In the interest of learning as fast as possible whom the Bears’ next quarterback could possibly, maybe, potentially be, the Tribune has reached out to Simone Adamley.

Starter?

Backup?

Doesn’t really matter. Just need a few hot names.

Some scuttlebutt. A juicy rumor or two to chew on until dinnertime.

Adamley is as trusted as many NFL “insiders” profess to be these days. Plus she has Chicago ties. You may recall she was in Mr.

Lorensax’s econ class at a North Shore high school in the mid-1980s, her desk just a few seats in front of Ferris Bueller’s.

And, well, as reliable as ever, Adamley now has people telling her the Bears might indeed be connected to a quarterback with multiple Super Bowl rings.

Coincidentally, Adamley’s best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with a girl who saw Bears general manager Ryan Pace and Joe See BEARS B5

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Catskill’s Lavon Fernandez (23) is the 2019-20 Patroon Conference boys basketball Most Valuable Player.

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Dayquan Griffin/Hudson DeVon Haye/Catskill Rian Jewett/Maple Hill Samir Lockhart/Rensselaer

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New York Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge (99) poses for a fan photo during a spring training game against the Toronto Blue Jays at George M. Steinbrenner Field.

Trout season’s almost here

Yankees Judge says he still has time for Opening Day

By Larry DiDonato For Columbia-Greene Media

Trout season opens in just a little over three weeks on April 1. There’s been talk of altering stocking schedules and changing other aspects of trout management, but none will take place any time soon.

DEC has not yet finalized its draft Trout Stream Management Plan which has to be open to public comment before regulatory changes can be made. The draft plan will likely include recommendations gleaned from a series of public meetings DEC held on the topic late in 2019.

The stated purpose of the meetings which began in 2017, was revealed in its title, to garner; “Public Perspectives on Trout Stream Management in NYS.” DEC described their objective as an effort “…to understand the range of outcomes desired by trout stream anglers and the relative importance of those outcomes in contributing to a satisfactory angling experience.”

It was the first step in the development of a new, statewide trout stream management plan. The meetings were attended by a total of 318 members of the public statewide. Attendees consisted of unaffiliated trout anglers, members of Trout Unlimited (TU), and representatives of

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conservation and outdoor recreation organizations.

DEC summarized the results of the interactive discussions with the following “Top Five” list of take-aways defining what trout anglers’ value most: • High quality stream habitat as a means to better fishing and as a desired outcome in its own right • The opportunity to catch

wild trout and to a lesser extent stocked trout that have been in the stream longer than freshly stocked trout • Extended availability of trout stocked in streams • A diversity of distinct stream fishing experiences (stocked trout, wild trout, easy vs. challenging, etc.) and the information necessary to find them • Management success to be

based on more than just catch rate of trout (CROT) per hour The first of these take-aways is likely to receive wide support. Who doesn’t want better stream ecology that provides better flow, cover, and cooling for trout, while improving stream dynamics and potential resilience to floods? One issue here has been the cost.

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LAKELAND, Fla. — Aaron Judge has time, but no answers. The Yankees slugger said Thursday morning he is not worried about having time to be ready for Opening Day, but first and foremost he and the doctors have to figure out what is causing the shoulder/chest issue that has kept him from taking a swing on the field yet this spring.

“A couple more tests and a couple more talks with doctors and we’ll kind of figure out what’s going on,” said Judge, who had not spoken to the media since he was shut down for a second time this spring last week. “Quite a few of the tests are coming back clean, so we are just trying to figure out what is going on.”

Until then, Judge will not be able to start his baseball activities, but he said that they have not yet crossed the threshold where he would rule himself out for the March 26 opener in Baltimore. Tuesday, Brian Cashman said it was unlikely

Judge would be able to get ready in time.

“You only need about 30 at-bats to get ready for the season. You know, I got plenty of time for that,” Judge said. “But we’ve got to get answers first.”

The 27-year-old outfielder had initially been shut down in early February with the shoulder issue after being sent back to New York for an MRI and exam with team doctors. At the time, Boone said the MRI showed no change in the shoulder, explaining that there was some unspecified issue apparent on the MRI in the shoulder dating back to when Judge was drafted.

Whatever the ailment is, it started bugging Judge when he showed up here to begin working out and has not allowed him a normal rampup of hitting and throwing.

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Pro basketball NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic W L Pct Toronto 43 18 .705 Boston 42 19 .689 Philadelphia 37 25 .597 Brooklyn 27 34 .443 New York 19 43 .306 Central W L Pct Milwaukee 53 9 .855 Indiana 37 25 .597 Chicago 21 41 .339 Detroit 20 43 .317 Cleveland 17 45 .274 Southeast W L Pct Miami 40 22 .645 Orlando 27 35 .435 Washington 22 39 .361 Charlotte 21 41 .339 Atlanta 19 44 .302 Western Conference Northwest W L Pct Denver 42 20 .677 Utah 39 22 .639 Oklahoma City 38 24 .613 Portland 28 35 .444 Minnesota 19 42 .311 Pacific W L Pct L.A. Lakers 47 13 .783 L.A. Clippers 43 19 .693 Sacramento 27 34 .443 Phoenix 24 38 .387 Golden State 14 48 .226 Southwest W L Pct Houston 39 22 .639 Dallas 38 25 .603 Memphis 31 31 .500 San Antonio 26 34 .433 New Orleans 26 36 .419 Wednesday’s games Boston 112, Cleveland 106 Oklahoma City 114, Detroit 107 Milwaukee 119, Indiana 100 Miami 116, Orlando 113 Memphis 118, Brooklyn 79 Utah 112, New York 104 Minnesota 115, Chicago 108 Dallas 127, New Orleans 123, OT Portland 125, Washington 104 Thursday’s games Denver 114, Charlotte 112 L.A. Clippers 120, Houston 105 Philadelphia at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

Toronto at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

Friday’s games Atlanta at Washington, 7 p.m.

San Antonio at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at New York, 7:30 p.m.

Utah at Boston, 8 p.m.

Indiana at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Orlando at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Miami at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

Memphis at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Portland at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

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

Saturday’s games Houston at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Utah at Detroit, 7 p.m.

Denver at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Memphis, 8 p.m.

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

Sacramento at Portland, 10 p.m.

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Pro hockey NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT SO Pts Boston 68 43 13 5 7 98 Tampa Bay 67 42 20 5 0 89 Toronto 67 35 24 4 4 78 Florida 67 33 26 4 4 74 Montreal 69 31 29 8 1 71 Buffalo 67 29 30 6 2 66 Ottawa 68 24 32 7 5 60 Detroit 68 15 48 3 2 35 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT SO Pts Washington 67 40 20 5 2 87 Philadelphia 67 40 20 2 5 87 Pittsburgh 66 39 21 6 0 84 Columbus 68 32 21 11 4 79 NY Islanders 66 35 23 6 2 78 NY Rangers 67 36 27 2 2 76 Carolina 65 35 25 5 0 75 New Jersey 66 26 28 6 6 64 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT SO Pts St. Louis 67 40 17 7 3 90 Colorado 66 40 18 7 1 88 Dallas 67 37 22 5 3 82 Winnipeg 68 34 28 4 2 74 Nashville 67 33 26 5 3 74 Minnesota 66 33 26 4 3 73 Chicago 66 30 28 4 4 68 Pacific Division GP W L OT SO Pts Vegas 68 37 23 6 2 82 Edmonton 67 36 23 6 2 80 Calgary 68 35 26 6 1 77 Vancouver 66 34 26 3 3 74 Arizona 68 33 27 4 4 74 San Jose 66 29 33 3 1 62 Anaheim 67 27 32 7 1 62 Los Angeles 66 25 35 3 3 56 Tuesday’s games Montreal 6, NY Islanders 2 St. Louis 3, NY Rangers 1 Pittsburgh 7, Ottawa 3 Boston 2, Tampa Bay 1 Minnesota 3, Nashville 1 Winnipeg 3, Buffalo 1 Chicago 6, Anaheim 2 Edmonton 2, Dallas 1, OT Vegas 3, New Jersey 0 San Jose 5, Toronto 2 Wednesday’s games Philadelphia 5, Washington 2 Calgary 3, Columbus 2, OT Anaheim 4, Colorado 3, OT Arizona 4, Vancouver 2 Thursday’s games Pittsburgh 4, Buffalo 2 Tampa Bay 4, Montreal 0 Boston 2, Florida 1, OT NY Rangers 6, Washington 5, OT Philadelphia 4, Carolina 1 Ottawa 4, NY Islanders 3 Nashville 2, Dallas 0 Edmonton at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Toronto at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

Minnesota at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

Friday’s games St. Louis at New Jersey, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Vegas at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.

Arizona at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Colorado at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

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Toronto at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

Transactions BASEBALL American League Baltimore Orioles - Assigned SS Joseph Ortiz to the Baltimore Orioles.

Boston Red Sox - Designated RHP Hector Velazquez for assignment. Signed RHP Collin McHugh to a one-year, $600,000 contract.

Chicago White Sox - Assigned SS Yolbert Sanchez to the Chicago White Sox. New York Yankees - Assigned RHP Mick Vorhof to the New York Yankees.

Texas Rangers - Assigned RHP Taylor Jungmann, SS Keyber Rodriguez, and LHP Lucas Jacobsen to the Texas Rangers.

National League Arizona Diamondbacks - Assigned CF Tra Holmes to the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Colorado Rockies - Assigned 3B John Cresto, RHP Brandon Gold, RF Niko Decolati, 2B Isaac Collins, 3B Danny Edgeworth, RHP Matt Dennis, and 2B Taylor Snyder to the Colorado Rockies.

Pittsburgh Pirates - Assigned RF Jack Herman, SS Zack Kone, and 3B Brett Pope to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

FOOTBALL National Football League Carolina Panthers - Signed DE Chris Smith to a one-year contract.

Denver Broncos - Cut DE Billy Winn. Waived DB Horace Richardson.

Philadelphia Eagles - Named Marty Mornhinweg senior offensive consultant.

San Francisco 49ers - Exercised the $2.15 million team option on CB K’Waun Williams for the 2020 season. Exercised the $5.45 million team option on FB Kyle Juszczyk for the 2020 season.

NCAA Football California - Promoted linebackers coach Peter Sirmon to defensive coordinator, inside linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator.

Cincinnati - Named Dan Enos associate head coach and running backs coach.

Cincinnati - Named Greg Scruggs defensive line coach.

Louisiana State - Promoted cornerbacks coach Corey Raymond to cornerbacks coach and recruiting coordinator.

Louisiana State - Promoted wide receivers coach Mickey Joseph to wide receivers coach and assistant head coach.

NBA roundup: Clippers win 6th straight Field Level Media

Kawhi Leonard scored 25 points, Ivica Zubac and Montrezl Harrell posted double-doubles, and the visiting Los Angeles Clippers drubbed the Houston Rockets 120-105 on Thursday night.

The Clippers extended their winning streak to six consecutive games and, perhaps of greater significance, squared the season series with Houston at two games apiece. The Clippers own the superior record within the Western Conference should the teams finish tied in the standings.

Leonard added six rebounds, five assists and two steals in just 28 minutes while Zubac (17 points, 12 rebounds) and Harrell (19 points, 10 rebounds) punished the smaller Rockets inside.

Paul George (13 points) and Marcus Morris Sr. (11 points) added to the Clippers onslaught.

Russell Westbrook paired 29 points with 15 rebounds while James Harden scored 16 points on 4-for-17 shooting for Houston.

Raptors 121, Warriors 113 Norman Powell stole the spotlight in Stephen Curry’s long-awaited return with a career-high 37 points, and Pascal Siakam hit a key hoop with 45.7 seconds remaining, helping Toronto outlast Golden State in a rematch of last June’s NBA Finals.

Curry had a team-high-tying 23 points in 27 minutes in his first action since breaking his left hand in the Warriors’ fourth game of the season in October. He missed 58 games.

Kyle Lowry and Serge Ibaka, two key contributors when the Raptors ended Golden State’s bid for a threepeat with a 4-2 win in the Finals, each recorded a double-double, lifting the Raptors to a second straight win after three consecutive losses.

Nuggets 114, Hornets 112 Jamal Murray’s short jumper with 6 seconds remaining gave Denver a

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Los Angeles Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard (2) attempts to control the ball as Houston Rockets forward Robert Covington (33) and guard Ben McLemore (16) defend during Thursday’s game at Toyota Center.

victory over host Charlotte in a dizzying finish.

Murray finished with a team-high 18 points as seven Denver players scored in double figures.

Charlotte’s Terry Rozier missed a 3-point attempt at the buzzer. From the four-minute mark to the two-minute mark, there were seven lead changes and a tie.

76ers 125, Kings 108 Tobias Harris scored 28 points and grabbed 14 rebounds, and Shake Milton added 20 points as short-handed Philadelphia slowed down red-hot Sacramento.

De’Aaron Fox scored 23 points and Buddy Hield added 22 for the Kings, who saw their three-game overall winning streak come to an end as well as

their six-game home winning streak.

Al Horford had 18 points, eight rebounds and six assists for the Sixers, who led by as many as 19 in the third quarter only to see the Kings cut the deficit to six with less than three minutes remaining in the period. However, a quick 12-2 run built the Sixers’ lead back to 96-80 at the end of the third.

NHL roundup: Rangers’ Zibanejad scores 5 goals Field Level Media

Mika Zibanejad scored his fifth goal of the game 33 seconds into overtime as the New York Rangers survived blowing four one-goal leads and recorded a wild 6-5 victory over the visiting Washington Capitals on Thursday night.

Zibanejad became the third Ranger with a five-goal game and raised his season total to a career-high 38 by finishing off a breakaway. No NHL player had scored five goals in a game this season.

Zibanejad became the first Ranger to produce a five-goal game since Mark Pavelich in 1983. Don Murdoch also scored five in October 1976.

Zibanejad scored a power-play goal in the first period, added two even-strength goals and then netted another powerBRAD PENNER/USA TODAY play tally with 1:42 remaining New York Rangers center Mika Zibanejad (93) scores the game winning goal against Washington to give New York a 5-4 lead.

Alexander Ovechkin scored Capitals goalie Ilya Samsonov (30) during overtime at Madison Square Garden. The goal was his fifth his second goal of the game of the game. with 43 seconds remaining in dubious franchise record set winning streak snapped. Mar- for the Penguins, who have regulation. Carl Hagelin, Ilya in 2003. The Panthers were the tin Jones finished with 24 won two straight coming off a Kovalchuk and Garnet Hatha- highest-scoring team in the saves. six-game losing streak. Goalway also scored for Washing- NHL and on a six-game win Kings 1, Maple Leafs 0 (SO) tender Matt Murray stopped ton, which is 6-9-2 in its past 17 streak at the All-Star break.

Jonathan Quick made 36 28 of Buffalo’s 30 shots. games.

Since then, they are 5-10-3. saves in his first shutout of the Jake McCabe and Marcus JoFlyers 4, Hurricanes 1 The Bruins, who have won season, and host Los Angeles hansson scored for the Sabres, Ivan Provorov, Michael four straight games, own the extended its winning streak to who have lost five in a row. JoRaffl, Nicolas Aube-Kubel and best record in the NHL with 98 a season-best four games by nas Johansson made 28 saves.

Sean Couturier each scored a points. Patrice Bergeron also blanking Toronto.

Lightning 4, Canadiens 0 goal to lift host Philadelphia scored for Boston, and Jaroslav Anze Kopitar and Adrian Andrei Vasilevskiy posted past Carolina.

Halak had 32 saves. Macken- Kempe scored in the shootout his third shutout of the seaScott Laughton recorded zie Weegar produced the Pan- for Los Angeles. Frederik An- son, Victor Hedman tallied two assists for the surging Fly- thers’ goal. dersen made 30 saves for To- twice, and Tampa Bay earned a ers, who won their season-high Wild 3, Sharks 2 ronto for his third shutout of season-series sweep of visiting eighth in a row. The Flyers imAlex Stalock made a season- the season and 19th of his NHL Montreal. proved to 24-5-4 at home. Phil- high 40 saves and Zach Parise career. It was the first 1-0 game Vasilevskiy stopped 32 shots adelphia played without James and Ryan Suter each had a goal for either team this season. to earn his 21st career shutvan Riemsdyk, who is expected and an assist as visiting MinneThe Maple Leafs remain five out, adding to his franchise reto be out at least four weeks sota moved into the top wild- points in front of the Florida cord. Hedman scored at even with a broken right index fin- card spot in the Western Con- Panthers for third in the Atlan- strength and on the power ger. ference with a victory over San tic Division. The Panthers lost play.

Justin Williams scored the Jose.

Nikita Kucherov recorded 2-1 in overtime to the visiting lone goal for the struggling Alex Galchenyuk also scored Boston Bruins on Thursday, a goal and an assist – giving Hurricanes, who dropped their a goal for Minnesota, which extending their winless streak him points in 20 of his past fourth straight.

21 games – and Alex Killorn has 75 points and leapfrogged to four games.

Bruins 2, Panthers 1 (OT) notched his career-high 25th four teams to the wild-card Penguins 4, Sabres 2 Torey Krug scored with 51.7 spot. Vancouver, Nashville, Patric Hornqvist scored two goal. Kevin Shattenkirk proseconds remaining in over- Winnipeg and Arizona are all goals to help visiting Pitts- duced his 300th career assist. time, lifting Boston to a win one point behind.

Blackhawks 4, Oilers 3 burgh down Buffalo.

Joe Thornton and Stefan over Florida in Sunrise, Fla. Alex DeBrincat scored twice, Marcus Pettersson and SidIt was Florida’s eighth Noesen scored goals for San ney Crosby also scored, and and Corey Crawford stopped straight home loss, breaking a Jose, which had its three-game Evgeni Malkin had two assists 21 shots to boost host Chicago

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past Edmonton for its fourth straight victory.

The Blackhawks moved within four points of the final Western Conference playoff spot while snapping the Oilers’ three-game winning streak.

Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews also scored for Chicago, and Adam Boqvist had two assists. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Josh Archibald and Kailer Yamamoto were the Edmonton goal-scorers, with Leon Draisaitl and Darnell Nurse providing two assists apiece.

Senators 4, Islanders 3 Anthony Duclair scored the go-ahead goal late in the second period as host Ottawa beat struggling New York.

Connor Brown, Mikkel Boedker and Brady Tkachuk also scored for the Senators, who have won three of four.

Goalie Craig Anderson made 37 saves.

Anders Lee, Mathew Barzal and Ryan Pulock scored for the Islanders, who have lost five straight (0-3-2) since acquiring center Jean-Gabriel Pageau from the Senators hours before the Feb. 24 trade deadline.

Pageau, who spent the first seven-plus years of his career with Ottawa, received a standing ovation during a scoreboard tribute in the first period.

Predators 2, Stars 0 Filip Forsberg and Matt Duchene ended lengthy goal droughts by scoring on the power play, and Juuse Saros made 33 saves for his third shutout of the season as Nashville snapped a three-game slide with a win over visiting Dallas.

Fighting for a playoff spot in the Western Conference, the Predators rode some solid special teams play to take the front end of a home-and-home set with Dallas. Nashville went 2-for-4 on the power play and killed all four penalties to beat the Stars for the first time in three meetings this season.

The teams square off again Saturday afternoon in Dallas.

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The Catskill Central School District requests sealed bids for a 2019-2020 Out of District Transportation Run. Sealed bids should be submitted to the Transportation Coordinator, William Muirhead, Catskill Central School District, 347 West Main Street, Catskill, New York 12414 until 10:00 a.m. on Friday, March 13, 2020 at which time and place they will be publicly opened and read.

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Hubbell Inc. is currently accepting proposals for materials and subcontractors for work pertaining to the Big Pond Road Culvert Replacement Project in the Town of Hardenburgh, Ulster County, NY. MBE, WBE, and Section 3 firms are encouraged to respond and will be given first priority. Please call Laurissa Vanoni at 845-586-2707 or email L A U R I S S A . V A N O - LEGAL NOTICE NI@HUBBELLS.COM All requests for transfor details. portation, to commence September 8, PUBLIC NOTICE No- 2020, of Cairo-Durham tice is hereby given Central School District that the Mayor of the resident children to atCity of Hudson, New tend non-public York, following a pub- schools are due in the lic hearing held on District Office of the March 2, 2020, ap- Cairo-Durham Central proved the following School, P.O. Box 780, Local Law which was Cairo, 424 Main Street, adopted by the Com- N.Y. 12413, no later mon Council on Febru- than April 1, 2020. ary 18, 2020: Local Forms may be obLaw No. 1 of 2020 – tained by contacting, Imposing a Six-Month Transportation SuperMoratorium on the visor, Roger Vaughn at Registration and Op- (518) 622-2236. eration of Any New Short-Term Lodging Facility. Complete text of the above law is on Public Notice file and may be exam- The Stockport Fire Disined at the City Clerk's trict will be holding a Office, City Hall during public referendum on regular office hours. March 10,2020 at the Firehouse The law may also be Stottville from 6 to 9PM for the viewed on the city website www.cityof- purpose of approving the purchase of a new hudson.org pumper for the Stottville Fire Company and EXAMINATION OF AS- LEGAL NOTICE District borrowing an amount SESSMENT INVENTO- 2019-2020 to exceed RY AND VALUATION Special Transportation not 400,000.00 this new Run DATA truck will be replacing two current trucks which are 30 years old.

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LEGAL NOTICE to the residents of the Catskill Central School District TRANSPORTATION REQUESTS Requests for transportation to non-public/private, parochial schools and child care centers for the 20202021 school year must be completed and returned to the Catskill Central School District no later than April 1, 2020. Separate request forms must be completed for each school. State law requires submission of requests for transportation by April 1 of each year. If a child’s placement or acceptance at a particular school has not been finalized, return a completed request form in anticipation of attendance. Late submittal could jeopardize your child’s right to transportation. New residents must submit a written request within 30 days of establishing residency in the district. Questions may be directed to and forms obtained from Catskill Central School District Transportation Office 347 West Main Street, Catskill, NY 12414.

(518)943-2300 x1472 By order of the Board of Education Catskill Central School District Holly Sanford District Treasurer NOTICE CONCERNING THE EXAMINATION OF ASSESSMENT INVENTORY AND VALUATION DATA (Pursuant to Section 501 of the Real Property Tax Law) Notice is hereby given that assessment inventory and valuation data is available for examination and review.

This data is the information which will be used to establish the assessment of each parcel which will appear on the Tentative Assessment Roll of the Town of Jewett which will be filed on or before May 1st, 2020.

The information may be reviewed, by appointment, in the Assessor’s Office at 3547 Co Rte 23C on Monday March 9th between the hours of 10am and 2pm and Monday March 16th between the hours of

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, pursuant to Title 5, Chapter 3, Subchapter 3 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York, a public hearing will be held at 1 Centre Street, 20th Floor Conference Room D, Borough of Manhattan on Wednesday March 25, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. on the following: REAL PROPERTY PUBLIC HEARING in the matter of the acquisition by the City of New York of Fee Simple (Fee) interests, as well as the acquisition by the Village of Tannersville using City funds as part of the City-Funded Flood Buyout Program (FBO-Muni) of the following real estate in the County of Greene for the purposes of providing for the continued supply of water, and for preserving and preventing the contamination or pollution of the New York City water supply system: NYC ID Municipality Type Tax Lot ID Acres (+/-) 8934 Village of Tannersville FBO-Muni 182.05-4-36 0.44 9486 Village of Tannersville FBO-Muni 182.05-2-39 0.40 8899 Town of Jewett Fee 111.00-3-7 14.10 5260 Town of Lexington Fee p/o 159.00-1-5.2 78.50 2944 Town of Prattsville Fee p/o 74.00-4-31 16.50 A copy of the Mayor’s Preliminary Certificates of Adoption and maps of the real estate to be acquired are available for public inspection upon request. Please call (845) 340-7810.

Note: This location is accessible to individuals using wheelchairs or other mobility devices. For further information on accessibility or to make a request for accommodations, such as sign language interpretation services, please contact the Mayor’s Office of Contract Services (MOCS) via e-mail at DisabilityAffairs@mocs.nyc.gov or via phone at (212) 7880010. Any person requiring reasonable accommodation for the public hearing should contact MOCS at least three (3) business days in advance of the hearing to ensure availability.

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10am and 2pm. An appointment to review the assessment information may be made by telephoning the assessor at 518-263-4646.

NOTICE CONCERNING THE EXAMINATION OF ASSESSMENT INVENTORY AND VALUATION DATA (Pursuant to Section 501 of the Real Property Tax Law) Notice is hereby given that assessment inventory and valuation data is available for examination and review. This data is the information which will be used to establish the assessment of each parcel which will appear on the Tentative Assessment Roll of the Town of Ashland which will be filed on or before May 1st, 2020. The information may be reviewed, by appointment, in the Assessor’s Office at 12094 Route 23, Ashland on March 5, 2020 between the hours of 9am and 1pm and on March 12,2020 between the hours of 9am and 1pm. An appointment to review the assessment information may be made by telephoning the assessor at 518-7343636.

Dated 27th day of February Nancy Wyncoop Bower, Sole Assessor Town of Kinderhook Planning Board PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Town of Kinderhook Planning Board will hold Public Hearing(s) pursuant to Article VII, Chapter 250-50, of the Code of the Town of Kinderhook on the following application(s): (1) 7:02 pm – Nut Biz LLC (Tierra Farm), 2424 State Route 203, Valatie, NY, Tax Parcel ID# 55.-1-6.200 - Site Plan Review/Amendment for Ground Mounted Solar Panels.

Said Hearing(s) to be held on the 19th day of March, 2020, at the Kinderhook Town Hall, 3211 Church Street, Valatie, NY, at which time all interested parties will be given the opportunity to be heard. Additional information regarding these applications can be obtained by contacting the Secretary for the Planning Board. By Order of the Board. Respectfully submitted, Nataly D. Jones, Secretary to the Board NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS Village of Kinderhook PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Village Board of the Village of Kinderhook will hold public hearings on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 at 7:10 p.m. and 7:20 p.m., respectively, in the Kinderhook Village Hall located at 6 Chatham Street, Kinderhook New York, to receive comments from the public on the following proposed LOCAL LAW NO. 3 OF

2020 entitled, “A local law amending the Code of the Village of Kinderhook to add Chapter 132 Temporary Storage Containers.� LOCAL LAW NO. 4 OF 2020 entitled, “A local law amending the Code of the Village of Kinderhook to add Chapter 133 entitled Dumpsters.�

All persons interested are invited to attend. A complete copy of the text of the proposed local law is available at the office of the Kinderhook Village Clerk during normal business hours.

If, a sign language interpreter, assistive listening system, or any other accommodation will be required to facilitate your participation in this public hearing please contact the Village Clerk at 518-758-9882 or okvillagehall@villageofkinderhook.org one week in advance of the meeting and public hearing.

DATED: February 13, 2020 s/Nicole Heeder Kinderhook Village Clerk

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No education required, 1-month experience required. Mon-Fri, 8am-5pm, 40 hours / week at $13.63/hour. 0-10 OT hours/week at $20.45/hour if required by law. Number of hours per week varies. Transportation (incl. meals and lodging) to place of employment provided or reimbursed at rate set by law by employer no later than completion of ½ contract period. Return trans. provided if contract completed or early dismissal.

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UNDER SEC. 182 NYS LIEN LAW, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT PROPERTY DESCRIBED AS CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT, WILL BE SOLD AT AUCTION ON MARCH 16TH , 2020 AT 12:00 NOON AT 90 HEALY BLVD. HUDSON, NY 12534. THIS AUCTION COULD BE CANCELED AT ANYTIME. CALL 518-828-5213. THE SALE OF SUCH PROPERTY IS TO SATISFY THE LIEN OF AFFORDABLE SELF STORAGE ON PROPERTY STORED FOR THE ACCOUNT OF: UNIT NO. NAME ADDRESS 1301 URSULA LABAN HUDSON, NY 1308 URSULA LABAN HUDSON, NY 1297 URSULA LABAN HUDSON, NY 1415 RICHARD WILLIGANS HUDSON, NY 259 CHRISTOPHER HART HUDSON, NY 652 DOUG SWARTZ PHILMONT 114 ALEXANDRA LOPEZ DE LA PEZ HUDSON, NY 113 DEBORAH BROWN HUDSON, NY

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Spring training roundup: Tigers pound Yankees’ Cole Field Level Media

Detroit’s Travis Demeritte and Miguel Cabrera hit back-to-back homers off the Yankees’ Gerrit Cole in the first inning, then repeated the feat in the second inning as the Tigers posted a 15-11 win over New York on Thursday in Lakeland, Fla. The Tigers also got homers from Brandon Dixon, Jeimer Candelario, Jake Rogers, Jose Azocar and Brady Policelli. Kyle Higashioka homered twice for the Yankees.

Cole was tagged for six runs on six hits and a walk in two innings. He struck out three.

Astros 5, Red Sox 0 Josh James threw three innings of

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However, funding has been made available for projects over the past several years.

Greg Cuda, President of the Clearwater Chapter of Trout Unlimited, (TU) said his organization has been able to take advantage of available grant money for stream improvements along the Battenkill. His volunteers provide the labor, and grants pay for materials like stone, trees, stumps, root balls, etc. Greg stated, “DEC is addressing issues regarding trout stream management that were overdue to be looked at. We fully support their efforts to improve trout stream habitat.”

I have to agree with Greg on this one. I’m happy our fisheries biologists are seeking input from rank and file trout fishermen and truly addressing critical improvements in trout stream management.

Going back a year or two in Columbia County, ColumbiaGreene TU Chapter President, Vinny DuBoise obtained approximately $350,000.00 in grants for removal of failed

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Montana heading for dessert at 31 Flavors last night.

Whoa! Right?

Added Adamley: “I guess it’s pretty serious.”

So there you have it. Joe Montana’s in the mix. Maybe.

Which has to be a shock to the system for Eli Manning, whose purported dinner with the Bears on Wednesday night — a meal that multiple actual

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cages, he again felt the discomfort.

Judge described the issue as migrating from his shoulder to chest and back, which has

one-hit ball, and he combined with four relievers on shutout as Houston topped Boston at Fort Myers, Fla. Kyle Tucker opened the scoring with a tworun homer in the third inning.

Phillies 5, Blue Jays 3 Bryce Harper hit his third homer in two days, and Roman Quinn, Rhys Hoskins and Austin Listi also went deep as Philadelphia defeated Toronto at Clearwater, Fla. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. homered for the Blue Jays.

Mets 7, Cardinals (ss) 7 Johneshwy Fargas hit for the cycle as New York played to a tie against a St. Louis split squad in Jupiter, Fla. Cardinals starter Adam Wainwright was tagged for five runs on eight hits

in four innings.

Rays 2, Pirates 1 Ryan Yarbrough struck out two in three scoreless innings to lead Tampa Bay to a victory over Pittsburgh at Port Charlotte, Fla. The Rays’ Austin Meadows led off the bottom of the first with a homer, and Nate Lowe drove in a tiebreaking run in the sixth inning.

Twins 3, Orioles 3 T.J. Nichting and Austin Wynns hit RBI singles in the bottom of the ninth inning as Baltimore pulled out a tie with Minnesota at Sarasota, Fla. The Twins got solo homers from Nelson Cruz and Alex Kirilloff.

Rangers (ss) 5, Cubs 0 Jonathan Hernandez threw the first

three innings, and five relievers followed to complete a three-hit shutout as a Texas split squad topped Chicago in Mesa, Ariz. Anderson Tejeda and Nick Solak had two-run singles in the fourth inning.

White Sox 7, Rockies (ss) 6 Nomar Mazara hit a two-run homer, and Danny Mendrick went 3-for-3 to lead Chicago to a victory over a Colorado split squad at Phoenix. Ian Desmond, Drew Butera, David Dahl and Sam Hilliard homered for the Rockies.

Brewers 6, Reds 4 Jesus Castillo threw two perfect innings for the save as Milwaukee defeated Cincinnati at Goodyear, Ariz.

Jacob Nottingham and Jace Peterson

each had two hits for the Brewers.

A’s 5, Dodgers 1 Mike Fiers fanned four while throwing four scoreless innings of one-hit ball, leading Oakland to a win over Los Angeles at Mesa, Ariz. Reigning National League MVP Cody Bellinger hit his first homer of the spring for the Dodgers.

Indians 7, Giants 1 Oscar Mercado’s two-run, fourthinning homer opened the scoring, and Cleveland went on to beat San Francisco at Scottsdale, Ariz. Brandon Belt’s homer in the bottom of the fourth accounted for the Giants’ only run.

coverts and stream fords to improve streams and trout habitat. Vinny explained, “Removing barriers like (in) the Green Brook and Noster Kill helps fish, including native brook trout, access a diversity of habitat and is critically important as aquatic species face a variety of challenges, including a warming climate.”

A New York State Water Quality Improvement Grant funded professional design and construction of both projects. Plants were provided through a partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation and enthusiastically installed

by Columbia-Greene Chapter members.

In Greene County, Walt Bennett utilized grants to help coordinate bank stabilization, and installation of pool diggers on the Ten Mile Creek in Oak Hill. The “Trees for Tribs” program providing plants and trees for this, and many other local stream projects like those on the Schoharie Creek in Hunter and Lexington.

Getting on to other “takeaways“gleaned from the public meetings, trout stocking remains front and center. Local trout fishing enthusiast, Frank Algozine, expressed some very

definite ideas on the topic at DEC’s meeting in Poestenkill this past November. His recommendations to DEC can be summed up as follows: • Support stream habitat improvements that provide shade and cover for trout • Stocking takes place too early for tank reared trout to enter cold, fast flowing streams; • Stock later when conditions improve at accessible locations and advertise it so more kids and anglers can take advantage of the opportunity • Stock more, larger trout with improved genetics; current stocked trout are entirely unprepared for survival in stream environments While once again, the details of the draft plan are not yet available, the issues Frank brings up will likely be addressed.

Development of a hybrid brown trout where wild trout are bred with hatchery stock to create a smarter, more resilient strain, are in the works.

Increased frequency of stocking streams to provide more angling opportunity and to increase survival is also on the table.

While the devil remains in the details, I’m told the impetus for the changes are not budgetary and hatchery capacity will not be reduced.

As stated, there are state grants currently being used for stream improvement and potential increased funding for stream and river habitat improvements are proposed in Governor Cuomo’s Environmental Bond Act that will be on the ballot in November.

On February 13th, the governor announced a campaign to pass the $3 Billion “Restore Mother Nature Bond Act” in the FY 2021 Budget. The announcement proclaimed its purpose includes, “…to restore water resources and critical habitats, … prioritize projects to improve water quality, re-establish natural habitats and protect communities and infrastructure from flooding…support land acquisition to provide new and expanded recreational opportunities.“ The new program touts it will “…protect and restore wetlands and waterways and include significant investments in New York’s 12 fish hatcheries to increase the state’s populations of

freshwater sportfish such as walleye, trout, and salmon…”

In the interim, we will have to wait to examine the draft plan, then make our voices heard through the public comment process.

Right now, I’m looking forward to more daylight in the evening, and warmer weather in time for trout season.

Happy Hunting, Fishing and Trapping until next time.

Hudson Fish & Game Club Fundraiser: The Hudson Fish and Game Club is holding an indoor cornhole tournament at their clubhouse at 293 Fish & Game Road in Hudson on Saturday March 7th. Checkin is at 3 p.m. and the games begin at 3:30 p.m. Cost is $25 per team paid at the door.

There will be cash prizes and refreshments will be available.

For more information call Ed at 518-821-4306. BTW, Ed reminds you to BYO chair.

Greene County Chapter Ducks Unlimited Annual Dinner/Auction March 21: Mark your calendars for this event. It will be held at Anthony’s Banquet Hall in Leeds on Saturday, March 21st. Doors open at 5:30 pm with dinner at 7 p.m. There will be a live

as well as a silent auction after dinner with plenty of gun giveaways and other prizes.

Tickets are available online; just search using key words, “Greene County NY Ducks Unlimited Banquet.” For further information, call Dana Hanusik at 518-943-2729, Jeff Holiday at 518-943-1986, or Bob Sager at 518-731-6353.

Shooters Sports in Valatie Fur Buyer/Pistol Permit Class Schedule: Ron Alund will be at Shooters Sports in Valatie buying fur at the store on March 14th and April 11th 2020 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Proprietor, Chris Nastke said pistol permit classes are held at the store with instructor Lew Hatch every third Saturday of the month from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Call the store at 518-758-1488 for more information on how to sign up.

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

sources have said emphatically didn’t occur — created a predictable wave of social media titillation overnight and into the early hours of Thursday.

Eli Manning? Readying for a 17th NFL season? With the Bears?

You know the rules of modern info-sharing, right? The only thing more exciting than a rumor is a big rumor. Reality be damned.

That’s what this was, naturally. A rumor. Don’t call it a report. Please, please, please don’t call it a report.

Reports, typically, are published or broadcast somewhere beyond Twitter and in the good ol’ days of yore, were also backed by old-school reporting.

Journalism. Fact-checking.

Confirmation. With repercussions for being wrong.

You know, the things that prevent conversation from becoming a cesspool of conjecture and innuendo.

As the Eli-and-the-Bears gossip goes, it’s hard to pin down precisely when it began, when it caught fire and how it spread so impressively. But

in the late hours of Wednesday night, the claim could be directly tied on Twitter to a sports-loving breaking-news dog (LeroyInsider).

There was also an analyst for a sports cable network in New York (BrianstevensSNY) who tweeted that Peyton Manning convinced his younger brother to have dinner with the Bears. But that analyst for a sports cable network in New York later deleted his tweet and assertion.

A new member of the Cubs’ Marquee Sports Network, pre- and postgame studio host

Cole Wright (ColeWright), relayed what he read on Twitter, but then seemed to secondguess its validity somewhat and couldn’t decide how much ownership of the rumor to take.

From there? Well, the playground was open for activity.

Go nuts, people. To borrow from Bears coach Matt Nagy, be you.

But just to reiterate as firmly as possible: Eli Manning will not be wearing a Bears uniform in 2020. There’s absolutely nothing there. No contract chatter. No dinner.

Nothing.

Thankfully, for everyone’s sake, that fire was extinguished before it was even 12 hours old.

Still, though, we have 11 more days until the NFL’s freeagency negotiating window opens and actual developments can begin to occur. So none of us is in the clear just yet.

After all, we also have this Bears-Joe Montana lead to chase now. And for that, there’s only one thing left to say: Thank you, Simone.

been part of the issue of diagnosing it.

“It’s a combination ... sometimes one day I’ll wake up and chest is feeling good then next day, shoulders feeling bad,” Judge explained. “It’s just kind of back and forth right now. “ In his three previous big league seasons, the

27-year-old has never had two healthy or strong halves.

After hitting .329 with 30 homers in 84 games in the first half of 2017, Judge went to the All-Star Game and won the Home Run Derby, then immediately began to struggle.

He was 1 for 21 in his first five games following the All-Star

break and in his first 55 hit .185 with 11 homers and 84 strikeouts from July 14 to Sept. 12.

It was not until the next spring he admitted a shoulder injury that required offseason surgery had affected him.

In 2018, Judge lost most of the second half of the season to a fractured wrist. After

hitting 25 homers and driving in 60 runs in the first 93 games of the season, he only played in 19 in the second half. He hit two homers and drove in seven runs.

In 2019, Judge missed 54 games after straining his oblique in April.

He’s frustrated by the time

he has missed.

“It’s tough,” Judge said. “I am pretty frustrated with it. I want to be out there with my team supporting them, being on the field and battling with them. Hopefully that’s why we’re talking to a lot of doctors, trying to get some answers.”

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NFL notebook: Players get ballots for CBA vote Field Level Media

Players received ballots for a proposed 10-year extension to the collective bargaining agreement from the NFL Players Association on Thursday, and they have seven days to submit their vote.

Ballots are due at 11:59 p.m. ET on March 12, the players union said in a statement. A “yes” from a simple majority of the players in the union would bring an unprecedented 11 years of labor peace to the NFL. Among the central points in the new CBA sparking debate among players is the addition of a 17th regular-season game starting in 2021, which NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith implied was tied to the reduction of preseason from four games per team to three.

NFL player representatives voted 17-14-1 to approve the deal at the NFL Scouting Combine, clearing the way for the full union vote.

–ESPN wants to pair Al Michaels and Peyton Manning on “Monday Night Football” telecasts, the New York Post reported.

The Post’s Andrew Marchand

said ESPN has yet to begin talks with NBC and its parent company, Comcast, in an effort to acquire the right to Michaels’ services. The 75-yearold Michaels currently calls Sunday night games with analyst Cris Collinsworth for NBC and is under contract with the network through the 2022 Super Bowl.

Play-by-play man Joe Tessitore and analyst Booger McFarland currently occupy the ESPN booth, but the network reportedly has been seeking an upgrade. Manning has declined previous inquiries from networks seeking his services, but Marchand said the five-time MVP quarterback might agree to a package deal with Michaels. NBC already has Michaels’ successor in-house in Mike Tirico.

–Quarterback Drew Brees has pledged his allegiance to the New Orleans Saints again.

“Listen, I have no intention of going anywhere,” he told “The Greg Hill Morning Show” on Boston’s WEEI FM. “I don’t care what the offer would be or what the situation might be, I am Who Dat Nation for

life.”

Brees, 41, announced last month that he will return for a 20th season in 2020. The NFL’s all-time leader in passing yards and touchdown passes is set to become a free agent later this month. His latest comments appear to clarify that he has no intention of joining Tom Brady and Philip Rivers in the free agent market.

–Philadelphia Eagles left tackle Jason Peters will enter the free agent market at age 38.

The team released a statement saying it had reached a mutual agreement to let the nine-time Pro Bowl selection test the waters when the new league year begins March 18.

“We are appreciative of everything Jason has contributed to the organization over the last 11 seasons in Philadelphia, including building a first-ballot Hall of Fame career and helping us win our first Super Bowl championship,” the Eagles posted to Twitter.

–Veteran running back LeSean McCoy won’t be back with the

Kansas City Chiefs in 2020, NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo reported.

The Chiefs signed McCoy to a one-year deal in September after he was released by the Buffalo Bills.

And while he gained nearly 650 yards rushing and receiving in 2019, he was less involved in Kansas City’s offense as the season wore on and was inactive for Super Bowl LIV. The Eagles and Los Angeles Chargers could be potential landing spots for McCoy, who turns 32 in July, according to Garafolo.

–The Carolina Panthers signed free agent defensive end Chris Smith to a one-year deal.

Smith, 28, played nine games with the Cleveland Browns last season before being released in December.

A 2014 fifth-round pick by Jacksonville, Smith has 68 tackles, 8.5 sacks and three forced fumbles in 60 games with the Jaguars (201416), Cincinnati Bengals (2017) and Browns (2018-19). He made his only two NFL starts with Cleveland in 2018.

–Seven-time Pro Bowl left tackle Trent Williams has been granted

permission to seek a trade by the Washington Redskins, multiple media outlets reported.

Williams was named to the Pro Bowl from 2012-18 before he elected to sit out all of last season. Williams cited issues with the Redskins’ medical staff for doing so following what he perceived was a misdiagnosis of a cancerous tumor in his head.

Williams, 31, said he would have reported last season had the Redskins guaranteed the final two years of his five-year, $68 million contract extension. He has one year remaining worth $12.5 million on the pact.

–The Eagles hired Marty Mornhinweg as a senior offensive consultant.

The former Detroit Lions head coach has also been the offensive coordinator for the Eagles, San Francisco 49ers, New York Jets and Baltimore Ravens during an NFL coaching career that began in 1995.

Mornhinweg, 57, most recently spent three seasons as the Ravens’ offensive coordinator (2016-18).

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Man’s death comes with shocking revelation Dear Abby, A short time ago, I experienced a terrible loss.

I came home from work one evening and found “Martin,” my boyfriend of almost 17 years, dead at the bottom of the stairs. I later found out he had been drinking.

I never saw Martin drinking DEAR ABBY before. He did it very rarely. He didn’t go to bars, and he would never drink and drive. He did have a close friend who would visit him on occasion, and they would drink beer together.

Abby, I feel deceived and betrayed on top of the terrible grief I can’t seem to overcome. Martin knew how I felt about drinking because I was previously married to an alcoholic for 19 years.

How do I get past this?

Wounded In Pennsylvania

JEANNE PHILLIPS

Please accept my deepest sympathy, not only for your loss, but for the manner in which you found your boyfriend. It had to have been an awful shock.

Are you absolutely certain his death was alcohol-related? Was there an autopsy? People have been known to suffer strokes or massive heart attacks that can take them suddenly, and if Martin was on the stairs, something like that could have caused his fall rather than the fact he had alcohol in his system.

A way to move past your anger and disappointment would be to look further into what happened if that’s possible, and if his cause of death is what you suspect, forgive him. Hanging onto anger and bitterness is not healthy for you.

Dear Abby, My husband and I have been married for 4 1/2 years. Most of them have not been good. When we have disagreements, he calls me names and then gives me the silent treatment, sometimes for weeks at a time. We tried counseling. It was

initially helpful, but he refuses to go anymore, saying “it didn’t work.” (We went to three onehour sessions.)

I’m trapped financially because I can’t afford our mortgage alone (he threatens me financially when we argue by not contributing his agreed-upon share into our household account). I don’t have the means to move out while still paying my share of the mortgage. I have three dogs, so renting is practically impossible. I’m lost, and I don’t know what to do. I cannot continue living in silence anymore.

Help!

Miserable In Florida A good marriage is like heaven; a bad one is like living with a truly unpleasant cellmate. Pick up the phone, start interviewing divorce attorneys and tell them everything you have told me. I think you will be pleasantly surprised that you do not HAVE to remain married. Consider selling the house.

That way you may not wind up with nothing. If you are unable to find homes for your dogs, contact pet rescue groups in your area and explain the situation.

You did not mention whether you have family you might be able to stay with until you are financially stable, but whether they can accommodate you or not, let them know what you have been going through. All of life is a learning experience, and there is life after you close this unhappy chapter.

Dear Readers: As a fan of longer, brighter days and warmer weather, I’m pleased to issue my annual reminder to those of you who live where daylight saving time is observed: Don’t forget to turn your clocks forward one hour tonight at bedtime.

Daylight saving time begins at 2 a.m. tomorrow.

Spring is on the way! — Abby

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See your dermatologist if tumor begins to regrow I had a skin blemish removed by burning at a dermatologist office. One wouldn’t seem to heal and a follow-up to the dermatologist with a biopsy found it to be a keratoacanthoma. I am not scheduled for a return visit as there was treatment during the time of the biopsy. What is the prognosis for this type of condition?

TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH

Experts argue whether keratoacanthoma is a benign tumor (which can sometimes go away by itself) or a skin cancer that can rarely spread to other locations.

However, since it can be difficult or impossible to tell the difference between keratoacanthoma and squamous cell cancer of the skin, I think surgical removal is the most appropriate treatment. If the tumor was completely removed during biopsy, then your prognosis is excellent. However, 3% to 8% of keratoacanthomas recur after biopsy. You should definitely see your dermatologist immediately if you see signs of regrowth at the site of biopsy.

Otherwise, I would recommend a return visit to the dermatologist in six months for a complete skin exam as well as to let the dermatologist look at the biopsy site.

DR. KEITH ROACH

Your recent column regarding cognitive decline after surgery suggested careful

consideration prior to elective surgery. Does this advice apply to screening colonoscopies?

Since for it’s done for screening and there is no indication of any problem, does the risk outweigh the benefits for a patient 65 or older?

The risk of cognitive decline after colonoscopy is very low. I could not find any data suggesting a significant risk of long-term (more than a day or two) changes to thinking or memory from the sedation or the procedure.

The sedation used for colonoscopy is very different from general anesthesia used for many surgeries.

While some anesthetic agents may have greater risk for cognitive decline than others, the risk for the sedatives in colonoscopy appears to be very small.

There are risks to a screening colonoscopy.

The most serious is a perforation of the colon, but bleeding and infection are other, rare risks. The preparation can cause imbalances in the salt levels of the blood. The risk of a serious complication after colonoscopy is less than 3 per 1,000 people.

The benefits of early detection of colon cancer greatly outweigh the risks of a complication for nearly all healthy people between 50 and 75, and there are some recommendations to start earlier (at 45) or continue screening even older.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You’re likely to hear or read something that sets you reeling — not because it is wrong, but because it is so very right.

Much may change.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — The more you try to hide something from others today, the more likely it is that it will be revealed. Distraction is better than deception.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Your motives may

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By Stella Wilder Born today, you are determined to make your dreams come true, and because you are willing and able to work longer and harder than most others in pursuit of your goals, you are more likely than almost anyone to reach them — often ahead of schedule! What is most important is that you choose your path at a relatively early age, for if you do, then it will be possible for you to chart a very specific, detailed path for yourself.

You make no promises that you cannot keep, and you sign up for nothing that you are unwilling to dedicate yourself to wholeheartedly. If you say you will do a thing, you will do it and devote all you have to doing it the very best you can.

Also born on this date are: Bryan Cranston, actor; Wanda Sykes, actress and comedian; Rachel Weisz, actress; Willard Scott, TV personality; John Heard, actor; Maurice Ravel, composer; Piet Mondrian, artist; Jeff Kent, baseball player.

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.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You’ve been trying to change the results of a certain activity again and again without changing the activity itself. You must start with that!

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — It’s a good day to share all you can with those around you. What goes around comes around, so you can soon expect a return on your investment!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Confidence is on the rise, but you may yet balk at the suggestion that you throw caution to the wind. This is wise, as minor dangers abound.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You may think you’re ready to do something bold and daring, but you’re not — just yet. Today, an essential piece of the puzzle falls into place.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You must be patient with someone who has only just recently begun doing a certain something on his or her own — but watch what happens.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You may be trying to hide your eagerness from someone who knows you very well — but by day’s end, you’ll betray yourself quite naturally.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You cannot look away and let someone continue doing what you know is foolhardy. You must step in and put a stop to it — now!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — It may be time for you to hand over some of your responsibilities to someone whose time has come. He or she has learned much from you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You mustn’t expect the impossible to become possible as if by magic, but a realistic approach can do the trick, perhaps — over time.

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SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

FEYHT SNHIY ITIFEN EAGLEU

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

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Answer here:

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

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

Answers (Answers Tuesday Monday) Yesterday’s

Jumbles: FRUIT USHER OVERDO CANARY Answer: Her sweater was covered in cat hair after the cat hair was — “TRANS-FURRED”

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Solution to Friday’s puzzle

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

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Put the same word in both blanks. (e.g., I am not ____ with the ____ of the reply. Answer: Content.)

Freshman level 1. The bandage was ____ around the _____.

2. I ____ to you putting that ugly ___ on my front lawn.

3. I saw a ___ in her eye when she saw the ___ in her new dress.

4. If the forest fire gets too ___ they will have to ____ the road.

5. I will ____ her if she can provide a reasonable ____for her behavior.

Graduate level 6. We agree that the new ____ will ___ the number of accidents in the factory.

7. The jury will ____ whether the shooting was ____ or accidental.

8. The nomads were forced to ____ the area because the ____ was too remote.

9. ____ reasons were given for not caring for the ____.

10. I can ___ you to where the ____ pipe was found.

PH.D. level 11. The doctor’s efforts to ____ a solution were not _____.

12. I was not ___ when he was given the ____.

13. The farm was able to ___ a lot of ___ during the growing season.

14. The ____ they were given was to ____ the image onto a large screen.

15. The recycling center will ____ to take any more ____ from that factory.

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Wound. 2. Object. 3. Tear. 4. Close. 5. Excuse. 6. Contract. 7. Deliberate. 8.

Desert. 9. Invalid. 10. Lead. 11. Perfect. 12. Present. 13. Produce. 14. Project. 15.

Refuse.

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

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Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 “O __, All Ye Faithful” 5 Pass on, as a message 10 Murdered 14 Wished you hadn’t done 15 Bring together 16 Cabbie’s car 17 Doesn’t just sit there 18 Walker 20 Encycl. volume, perhaps 21 Birthstones 22 Hurts 23 Singer Mariah 25 Door opener 26 Stops briefly 28 Against, in a court case title 31 Soothe; ease 32 Proverb 34 Capture 36 AM/PM divider 37 Official decrees 38 Source of woe 39 African antelope 40 __ up; robs at gunpoint 41 Terra-__; patio pot clay 42 Prose works 44 __ rooster; feisty little bird 45 Shack 46 Black-and-white animal 47 Monastery superior 50 Palm tree fruit 51 Major network 54 “Nonsense!”

57 Small store 58 __ out a living; got by 59 One’s strong suit 60 Munich man 61 Like grass blades at dawn 62 Leg joints 63 Not relaxed DOWN 1 Rugged cliff 2 Cry on getting a pinprick 3 Like a perfectionist

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4 Ames & Asner 5 Calcutta dollars 6 Opponent 7 Trash can covers 8 Supped 9 Affirmative 10 Alley cats 11 Hideaway 12 Test 13 Comes in first 19 “Been __, done that” 21 Zane or Lady Jane 24 Simile words 25 Beer barrels 26 Hunger reminder 27 Without companions 28 Cisterns 29 Disconnected 30 __ Barbara, CA 32 Has a bug 33 TV’s “American __!”

35 Smile broadly 37 Racer A.J. 38 Tight connection 40 __ cuisine; fine food

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Non Sequitur

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41 Candy __; Yuletide sweet 43 Poorly constructed 44 Washes 46 White adhesive 47 Not up yet 48 Recipe verb 49 __ it; screwed up

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50 Issue a challenge to 52 Björn of tennis 53 Quick-footed 55 JFK’s Attorney General 56 Put on, as clothing 57 That woman

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By KATIE WALSH Tribune News Service

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How Elisabeth Moss helped flesh out the story of ‘The Invisible Man’

By SONAIYA KELLEY Los Angeles Times

W

hen writer-director Leigh Whannell was approached to update the horror classic “The Invisible Man,” he basically spitballed the entire plot on the spot.

Fresh off the modest success of his low-budget 2018 sci-fi thriller “Upgrade,” Whannell found himself in a room with executives from Blumhouse Productions and Universal when “they floated this title to me like, ‘What do you think about the Invisible Man?’” he said. “Which was weird to me because it was a bit Mad Libs. I was like, ‘Not really sure? Never thought about the Invisible Man too much.’

“But one of the guys in the meeting said, ‘Well, what would you do with the character?’ And purely to fill the airtime I was like, ‘I guess I would probably tell the story from the point of view of a victim, like a woman escaping a relationship.’ I sort of vomited out the entire movie.”

Whannell conceived of the character as a wealthy scientist (played by Oliver Jackson-Cohen of “The Haunting of Hill House”) who is charming and controlling in equal measure. After his girlfriend manages to escape the glass prison they share together, he stages his own suicide just to continue to torment and control her under the cover of invisibility.

In a departure from the original H.G. Wells novel and its 1933 film adaptation — and despite the character’s title billing — this invisible man is a distant secondary character.

“I think it’s really obvious that the way to make the Invisible Man scary is to not focus the film on him,” said Whannell. “Once you put the monster in the spotlight, you demystify it. Not showing something is always the scariest thing.”

Instead, he shifted the narrative focus from the titular antagonist to his intimate partner Cecilia Kass, a woman who is gaslighted to the brink of insanity, played by Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actress Elisabeth

‘THE INVISIBLE MAN’ 3.5 stars out of 4 CAST: Elisabeth Moss, Aldis Hodge, Harriet Dyer, Storm Reid, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Michael Dorman DIRECTOR: Leigh Whannell RUNNING TIME: 2 hours, 4 minutes INDUSTRY RATING: R, for some strong bloody violence, and language

Moss. “One of the things I liked the most about this movie is that it’s a real-life monster,” Moss said during a joint interview with Whannell earlier this month. “That’s what really curdles your blood when you watch the movie.

“That feeling of not being believed, not being heard or being scrutinized for believing something you know in your heart to be true is something I think on varying levels we can all identify with,” she added. “When I start telling people what this movie was about and how it was being used as an analogy for gaslighting, I was really surprised by how many people would get this look in their eye. It’s a commonality that I think deserves to be explored.”

“I think the 1933 film is a classic horror movie with an important place in the history of horror, but it’s not terrifying to modern audiences,” said Whannell. “I saw an opportunity to reframe it in a way that could be scary.

We didn’t want to rely on the histrionics of horror, we wanted it to be real.

The scarier monster is the one you can imagine in your own life. It’s not a fanged beast, it’s the guy next door.”

Upon finishing the script, Whannell quickly realized that the success of the film would hinge on its central performance. “I realized that the whole movie rested on this one character’s shoulders,” he said. “The list of actors that can (carry an entire film) is short. And I remember everyone at Universal was really excited about Lizzie because they had just done ‘Us’ with her.”

In a stroke of kismet, Moss had been hankering to revisit the horror genre after her experience working with Universal and Jordan Peele on the filmmaker’s sophomore outing, which was

produced by Jason Blum and starred Lupita Nyong’o as a woman battling her shadow self.

“I’ve always loved horror but I really wanted to do one after the experience of watching Lupita and how absolutely magnificent she is in that movie,” said Moss. “I could see, ‘Oh, my god, OK, that’s what you can do with a role like that.’ She went so far and it was just the coolest thing, so I couldn’t wait to get the script. They said, ‘You’re going to get an offer for ‘The Invisible Man.’ And I was like, ‘OK, that’s amazing,’ because I loved working with Blumhouse. But I also was like, ‘ ... The Invisible Man?’” “‘I guess if they can’t see me, it’s fine,’” Whannell joked.

“Yeah, ‘If they can’t see me, I guess I can play any gender?’” said Moss. “But they said the woman was the lead and when I read the script, it was not only a horror film but this incredible character piece. It had a really challenging arc that you don’t get in some of your best dramas. So I said yes immediately.”

After Moss was secured, Whannell leaned on his leading lady to authenticate the female perspective. It’s the latest in a successful series of creative collaborations for Moss, who has helped shape many of her strongest roles, from the heroine of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” to her partnerships with indie filmmaker Alex Ross Perry, including last year’s grunge rock drama “Her Smell.”

“That was the missing puzzle piece of the script,” Whannell said. “I was happy with the screenplay but I needed that collaboration with Lizzie. We would dissect scenes for hours and See MOVIE C2

“I see you.”

This simple statement of fact might be the most powerful and the most dangerous thing an abuse victim can say to their abuser. Because abusers operate in the dark, away from prying eyes, twisting their own warped reality into the truth. Cecilia (Elisabeth Moss) shouts “I see you” to a seemingly empty room. And although it comes at her lowest moment, the declaration is the first step on her road to redemption in Leigh Whannell’s inventive and utterly riveting twist on “The Invisible Man.” To reinvent H.G. Wells’ 1897 story, which is best known as the 1933 James Whale classic horror film, Whannell has flipped the notion of invisibility. In this take, invisibility is no superpower, and no affliction, like the bandagewrapped Claude Rains, but rather, it’s a threat.

In his script, Whannell centers a woman, Cecilia, as the target of the invisible man, who is her abusive, vindictive tech mogul partner, Adrian (Oliver Jackson-Cohen). And she tries desperately to escape from him, running away in the middle of the night from his fortified oceanside mansion outside of San Francisco, seeking shelter with friends and family.

Nervous Cecilia is afraid to leave the safe house with friends, convinced Adrian will find her, until word arrives of his suicide. That’s when things really start to get weird. Knives disappear, mysterious kitchen fires start, floorboards creak, and blankets creep in the middle of the night. It’s all so mundane until it isn’t.

But by that point, Cecilia’s friends James (Aldis Hodge) and his daughter Sydney (Storm Reid) are disturbed by her erratic behavior. And her sister, Emily (Harriet Dyer), is furious at a cruel email she’s received from her.

The one thing that remains steadfast is Cecilia’s belief that Adrian (or his ghost) is stalking her. She knows her abuser and his patterns too well. She knows that in death, as in life, he will seek to gaslight, isolate and indict her in her own breakdown. What also remains steadfast is the film’s own belief in Cecilia, too. From the outset, Whannell establishes unmotivated camera movements and compositions that lurk menacingly or draw attention to big empty corners in the room. We see the footprints and the puffs of breath in cold air; we see the violent force that brutally batters her. In a film where almost no one buys Cecilia’s outlandish claims, the directorial point of view Whannell establishes never wavers in its belief in her.

Working with a cool, gray palette allows Whannell and cinematographer Stefan Duscio’s camerawork to remain at the forefront of their visual storytelling, underlined by an anxietyproducing score composed by Benjamin Wallfisch. The camera reveals the treachery of the environment in the most subtle of ways: focusing on an empty corner rather than her unbelievable testimony, or a unique, body-mounted shot of Cecilia collapsing, which is reminiscent of the wild cinematography that marked Whannell’s juicy cyberpunk actioner “Upgrade.”

At the center of the immaculately crafted film is Moss, who gives a virtuosic leading performance as Cecilia. She shouts at the specter of Adrian, “Why me? You could have had anything... you’ve taken it all.” With devastating specificity and empathy for his heroine, Whannell has inverted the invisible man archetype into an incredibly tense and suspenseful thriller exploring the psychological horror of intimate partner abuse. It shouldn’t feel radical that he lets us believe Cecilia, but in doing so, he makes “The Invisible Man” all the more potent a fable.

Elisabeth Moss faces off against an unseen antagonist in “The Invisible Man.” Universal Pictures

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20 years of simulated living GAMING: How The Sims navigated two decades of change to become one of the most successful franchises ever

By ELISE FAVIS Washington Post

If you could be anyone, who would you be? For two decades, the Sims franchise has answered this timeless question for hundreds of millions of players.

Every time you boot up The Sims, it’s akin to conducting a social experiment on virtual beings. You can build a character and a home from the ground up, form connections and shape generations. Or, you can burn it all down and wreak havoc.

It’s a flexible form of play that has remained immensely popular for 20 years, despite a rapidly changing video game landscape. Through its four mainline games and expansions, the franchise recently hit 200 million copies sold on PC. Today, The Sims 4 has reached 20 million unique players worldwide.

Developer Maxis and its publisher Electronic Arts (EA) made a franchise that stands the test of time. In our conversations with The Sims team, we were told the inside story of how the series evolved through innovation and inclusion and how it’s grown as a community-driven experience. Looking back on its 20th anniversary, that endurance appears to be less about what they did and more about how they did it.

Inspiration for The Sims came to creator Will Wright after his home burned down in the Oakland firestorm of 1991.

Wright became fixated with humanity’s affinity toward material things and whether happiness can be bought.

His studio, Maxis, had released SimCity to critical success in 1989, and he wanted to pivot that concept into something new but familiar.

In 1997, Maxis was acquired

by EA, giving the team funding for another project. Instead of managing an entire metropolis, the team wondered about controlling a singular neighborhood or building.

Mike Duke, senior producer of The Sims 4, has been working on the series for 13½ years.

Although he wasn’t employed

by Maxis at the time of its acquisition, he’s heard stories of its tumultuous beginnings from colleagues.

“I’ve definitely heard rumors of, ‘The Sims was a game that was canceled and resurrected or, you know, often questioned,’” Duke said in an interview with The Washington Post. “I think developing anything new, especially if it’s not (replicating) something else that’s already successful, there’s inherent risk. And it’s

A family enjoys a picnic at the park in a screenshot from The Sims 3. “The Sims has always been a game where players can play with life,” Lyndsay Pearson, executive producer and general manager of The Sims said. Electronic Arts

The Sims always had this really kind of hilarious underside of humor, a little bit off and a little bit dark sometimes. ... In The Sims, you can do all the things that you want to do and not get hurt doing it.”

JOE NICKOLLS Vice president and general manager of Maxis

one of the hardest parts of innovation.”

“They certainly had no way to foresee its success,” Lyndsay Pearson, executive producer and general manager of The Sims said. “And while it was certainly against the grain of games at the time, the credit of overcoming those doubts goes to the early dev team and the support from EA to bring it to life.”

Soon, what began as an architectural simulator morphed into an ambitious game focused on domestic life.

“I think one of the things the team realized early on was, you can’t really evaluate how good your space is until you put people in it,” Duke said. “They added these Sims just to help validate if you succeeded or failed with this architectural tool. And I think they quickly latched on to the fact that you start to care

for those little buddies.”

In the year 2000, when The Sims came out, the PC gaming market was filled with action games. Diablo II had just released and Half-Life modturned-game Counter-Strike would change first-person shooters for years to come. In a period when emphasis was placed on action-heavy gameplay, how did a game like The Sims kick off one of the most successful PC franchises of all time and remain wildly popular?

“The Sims has always been a game where players can play with life,” Pearson said. “While the settings and themes evolve, at the core this need is still there. The need to explore, experiment, build a life and create — those activities resonate regardless of generation.”

According to vice president and general manager of Maxis Joe Nickolls, what helped The

Sims stand out was its “soul.”

“The Sims always had this really kind of hilarious underside of humor, a little bit off and a little bit dark sometimes,” he said.

The Sims’s malleable fiction gives players a blueprint to form their own emergent stories. Sims speak in a gibberish language called Simlish (an idea the developers stumbled upon during voice recording sessions) and there’s a goofy tone to the series with random occurrences of alien abductions, supernatural phenomena, visits from a sociable Grim Reaper, among others.

There’s a darker side, too, with death looming in swimming pools or from something as innocuous as cooking a grilled cheese sandwich.

Death could be comical, like being eaten by a cowplant (which is literally a cow-planthybrid that lures unsuspecting Sims into its chomps) or cursed by a mummy. You watch Sims react to absurd situations without fear of repercussion.

Nickolls compares The Sims — favorably — to 1950s toy chemistry sets, which were sold with hazardous chemicals included.

“No one actually thought (kids) would a) kill themselves or b) blow themselves

up,” Nickolls said, laughing.

“But they used to sell these.

And you could do whatever you wanted with those things; sometimes in peril. But in The Sims, you can do all the things that you want to do and not get hurt doing it.”

The Sims 4 community is vocal, and at times, demanding. Thousands are active in Sims-specific subreddits and forums, along with an online library called the Gallery that lets users share or download custom content. (It has over 40 million player uploads.)

Sims fans have one thing in common: They’re hungry for more.

“We recently ran a community survey where we asked about future gameplay features, and we let (fans) tell us how much they wanted them,” Duke said. “The reality is, they wanted everything we said.”

Many users have taken to making things themselves.

One group of women modded new skin tones, hair and other custom items that better suited black female Sims. Custom content has been added since the original, and the wealth of content and creators has grown tenfold since, as creative tools improved.

“This network of everything from custom content, mods

and community-created challenges helps to keep the game fresh time and time again,” Pearson said.

According to Duke, the Sims team always wants “everything under the sun” to be included — even the pools and toddlers that the team didn’t have time to implement at the Sims 4 launch — but that’s not always possible. By the end of a meeting about a future game pack, whiteboards are filled with ambitious ideas.

This ambition can be traced back as far as the first game.

When it released, The Sims was ahead of the curve. Although PC expansion packs weren’t new — franchises like Diablo and Age of Empires sold them, too — The Sims took it to another level. Instead of just one or two expansions, the first Sims game had a whopping seven released in the span of three years.

Concepts like introducing pets, nightlife, exotic getaways and so on are often repeated and reconstructed in subsequent games, but every once in a while, Maxis and EA take a risk.

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we would rewrite the script and kind of do an autopsy on these scenes. I feel like the film became stronger because we were like copilots.”

“There were times when a scene would only exist on our scripts,” said Moss.

“Yeah, exactly,” said Whannell with a laugh. “And everybody would be like, ‘Scene what?’”

“It would just be written in the margins,” said Moss. “And some of it would be written in mine and some of it would be written in yours.”

“The funniest thing was watching the reactions of the other actors,” said Whannell.

“They just had to roll with it. Because there’s a certain sense of impostor syndrome that happens if you’re writing a story about a woman’s point of view (as a man). And I didn’t really start feeling comfortable with it until Lizzie and I had all these conversations. She gave the film authority ... and it felt like a true collaboration.”

Though the script required Moss to stretch her imagination by fighting against an

Aldis Hodge in “The Invisible Man.” Mark Rogers/Universal Pictures

Elisabeth Moss in “The Invisible Man.” Universal Pictures

invisible adversary multiple times, the actress says the biggest challenge of all was the amount of running the role demanded.

“Let’s just say I underestimated it,” she said. “And the speed at which Mr. Whannell would require me to run, which was basically faster and faster and faster. I am not a

particularly physical person, I do not really work out. And I got there and was like, ‘I’ve made a terrible mistake. I absolutely should have gone to the gym.’”

“Remember a lot of times you’d be like, ‘I feel like we got the shot?’” said Whannell with a laugh. “You’d be like, ‘I really feel like that one worked.’ And

I’d be like, ‘One more!’”

“I should have perhaps trained a little bit,” she said.

“And then once I got there I quickly ordered an elliptical machine for my apartment.

Warming up before takes is different for me. I don’t usually do the plank before a take on ‘Handmaid’s Tale.’ So that was a whole new thing, but it

was fun. I felt like I was Jason Bourne, basically.”

But not all of the physical stunts were grueling. Thanks to her background in dance, the choreographed fight scenes were a lot less arduous, Moss said.

“It was so much fun. We had such a great stunt team and they took really good care of me and made sure things were safe. Leigh called me when I was in Toronto shooting Season 3 (of ‘Handmaid’s Tale’) and said, ‘Look, I want to talk to you about the stunts and I would like you to do as much of it as possible.’ And I basically was like, ‘I want to do as

much as I can. We should just always decide by what looks best on camera.’”

“It’s very mechanical,” said Whannell. “A lot of the fight scenes that Lizzie had to do were almost like dance choreography. This disembodied voice would be booming over the set counting out the motion control camera like, ‘And one and two and ... ‘ and Lizzie knows that on three, she has to be here. And I remember thinking, ‘God, I couldn’t do that.’”

“I thought it was so fun, the idea of having to follow the counts,” said Moss. “For my brain, that’s perfect.”

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BREAKFAST BREAD starts the day off right MADE FROM SCRATCH:

Sweet potatoes and yogurt make this loaf moist and flavorful

By GENEVIEVE KO Los Angeles Times

Every Sunday, I bake a slew of breakfast goods for my kids to eat all week. They need to be delicious from day one and still taste good by Friday, be at least a little nutritious and not make a mess in the car.

This sweet potato bread — imagine a pumpkin bread but way better — has emerged as a clear winner.

Sweet potatoes bring more natural sweetness and tenderness to this loaf than pumpkin, and a combination of oil and yogurt keeps the slices from drying out while adding a complex richness. The stir-by-hand batter results in a quick bread that’s hearty but not heavy. It’s a great way to start the day or for an afternoon break with tea, but it can play the role of cake for dessert too, especially if you top thick slices with ice cream.

SWEET POTATO BREAD Makes one 9-by-5-inch loaf.

You can use any leftover sweet potato you have on hand, whether roasted or steamed, or you can microwave a whole one that’s been pricked with a fork until tender, about 5 minutes on high. Canned sweet potato works, though the bread will be a touch less flavorful.

1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour 1 ½ teaspoons pumpkin or apple pie spice 1 teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon kosher salt ½ cup granulated sugar ½ cup packed dark brown sugar 1 large egg, room temperature ½ cup grape seed or other neutral oil 3/4 cup mashed or pureed sweet potato ½ cup plain whole-milk yogurt Heat the oven to 350 degrees.

Lightly coat a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray, line the bottom with parchment paper and spray the parchment.

Whisk the flour, spice, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl. Whisk both sugars, the egg and oil in a large bowl until smooth. Add the sweet potato and yogurt and whisk just until incorporated. Add the dry ingredients and fold until no traces of flour remain. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top.

Bake until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean, 55 to 60 minutes.

Cool completely in the pan on a wire rack, then turn out and discard the parchment.

VARIATIONS Sweet Potato Olive Oil Bread: Substitute extra-virgin olive oil for the neutral-flavored oil.

Sweet Potato Nut Bread: Fold 1 cup toasted and chopped walnuts or pecans into the batter.

Make ahead: The loaf will keep tightly wrapped in plastic wrap for up to 1 week at room temperature.

Sweet potato and yogurt loaf can be baked on Sunday and still taste good on Friday. Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times

Cheesy cauliflower soup is inspired by Welsh rarebit

By CATHY BARROW Washington Post

Cheesy cauliflower soup.

Tom McCorkle / Washington Post

A pipe burst at my neighbor’s house. A friend is coming to town at the last minute.

A colleague has arrived home after a week on the road. There are dozens of reasons to make a big pot of soup to share, especially when it’s quick to the table and satisfying to boot.

This cauliflower soup takes inspiration from Welsh rarebit, a classic pub dish of piping hot cheese sauce spiked with beer spooned over thick toast. In this iteration, it’s the

cauliflower that gets the rarebit treatment, resulting in a soup that is cheesy and slightly bitter from the beer. Mustard and Worcestershire sauce add depth, and sharp cheddar cheese delivers a tangy zing.

I’m always suspicious when a recipe writer claims that you’ll have everything in the pantry to make something. My pantry might be different from yours, so instead I’ll say that a head of cauliflower, a hunk of cheese and a bottle of beer may be the outliers. If, like me, you buy a head of cauliflower

every week while dreaming of peas and asparagus and tender lettuce, you may be set.

I used a dark stout (similar to Guinness) for the soup but made it another time with a light lager because that was all I had. I preferred the raspy bitterness of the stout, but the beer flavor came through even with the lager. “Use what you have” has to be one of the three pillars of soupmaking (joining “cover the pot while cooking” and “serve it hot” for See SOUP C6

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Books & authors

Anne Enright is the real star of her brilliant new novel ‘Actress’

By RON CHARLES Washington Post

“Actress”

By Anne Enright W.W. Norton. 264 pp. $26.95

The double-edged sword of vulnerability MEMOIRS: New books by Katie

Roiphe and Diane Keaton

By MARION WINIK Washington Post

“Brother & Sister: A Memoir”

By Diane Keaton Knopf. 157 pp. $25.95 “The Power Notebooks”

By Katie Roiphe Free Press.

256 pp. $27 Diane Keaton neglected her mentally ill brother for most of his life. Now she’s trying to make it right.

Katie Roiphe is famous for being very sure of herself, for stating unpopular positions with great force and for not caring if people hate her. In her own words, she is “ferocious.” Her narrative persona is “a tank.” In her latest work, “The Power Notebooks,” she seems as surprised as we are to find herself taking a break from the role of steel-sided contrarian.

A hybrid of memoir and literary criticism, the book (on sale March 3) proceeds in brief, loosely connected chapters. Each contains a series of paragraphs reminiscent of Jenny Offill’s autobiographical fiction or Maggie Nelson’s essays. In daily, pre-dawn sessions, Roiphe tells us, she sat down with a notebook and forced herself “to do things I otherwise never let myself do: admit weakness, give up control, acknowledge doubt, have no idea where I am going.”

The first topic is her first marriage, an emotionally abusive relationship she describes in detail. In one scene, her husband berates her so furiously that their baby could not eat and her neighbors called their building’s management company. But even as she’s saying it, Roiphe wants to take it back. “The word abusive strikes me as impossible, not just because of what it says about H. but because of what it says about me.”

She moves on to debrief other relationships with men and with female friends, contextualizing these with stories from the lives of other female writers — Simone de Beauvoir (proud to be wholly submitted to the faithless Sartre), Mary McCarthy (had to ask her husband for a nickel to make a phone call), Sylvia Plath and Edith Wharton (both gutted and filled with selfloathing by a partner’s infidelity).

How does this work, she wonders.

These women are “strong in public, weak in private. Is there a particular kind of abjection that some of us are drawn to, participate in, possibly romanticize, even though nothing about our external lives necessarily suggests it? If so, is there a way out of it?”

Roiphe moves toward the way out with a quote from Chris Kraus’s novel “I Love Dick”: “Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our own debasement?”

What these women are doing, it turns out, is reframing and redeeming their “debasement” or “abjection” by making art about it. In these notebooks, Roiphe

My brother and I have done a good job of selling our brand of the innocuous encounter. I ask myself if my early disdain for his ever-ready smile was based on the fact that I copied it.”

DIANE KEATON Actor and author of “Brother & SIster”

is trying it for herself: admitting weakness and shame as a way of working toward strength.

Turns out, she’s not completely sold.

She writes with annoyance of her students’ admiration for writers like Zadie Smith, Leslie Jamison, Roxane Gay and Joan Didion. These writers achieve “relatability” — Roiphe seems to hold the very word at arm’s length — by showing weakness, softening their edges, by sounding “not totally pulled together.” To achieve relatability, she explains, you might “confess that you are drinking too much, say, or crying in the street, or stylishly neurotic a la Joan Didion or suffering with an eating disorder or struggling with depression.”

She goes on to quote specific “I-am-amess moments” from these writers and others. Jamison ate food from the trash.

Gay was so lacking in confidence that she puked before teaching. Every time she got drunk, Mary McCarthy started blathering about the czar. (Oh, Mary, not again.)

Everyone is a mess, Roiphe grants.

“The question is whether you want to announce or billboard it in your writing.” At this point, I felt confused. Isn’t this whole book Roiphe’s I’m-a-mess moment? She dips her toe in the water — then runs back to the beach. Perhaps these very contradictions are part of the freedom she’s allowing herself.

I happened to read Roiphe’s book immediately after another new memoir, “Brother & Sister,” by Diane Keaton.

Keaton is our cultural avatar of the I’ma-mess moment. She even designed its wardrobe. In her third memoir, there’s no tentative toe-testing. From page one, Keaton dives deep into a pool of regret about her relationship with her mentally ill younger brother, Randy Hall. “For many years, when we were young, I saw Randy as an inexplicable burden. He was a nuisance, a scaredy-cat, and a crybaby.” Though the two were close in childhood, Randy was a slow-motion failure to launch. After a brief marriage and career working for their dad, Randy ended up spending his time collaging, writing poetry, drinking and indulging in fantasies of violence.

Until recently, Keaton was too absorbed in her career to pay much attention. She was on set filming “Reds” when Randy tried to gas himself in the garage.

Now their supportive parents are gone, the siblings are in their 70s, and Keaton is rubbing Hall’s feet in his bedroom at a memory-care facility, reading her way through her mother’s journals and her brother’s poetry.

It’s not only her poor performance as a sibling that Keaton shares with us. Just as Roiphe has a chapter devoted to “More

Bad Things About Me In Print,” Keaton explains why success is “a confusing dream come true.” She shares her mother’s discomfort with the skewed representation of their family in the movie “Annie Hall.” (The family’s last name is Hall.)

Though she thought Christopher Walken was pretty good as the Randy character, Colleen Dewhurst as Mom was “not a high spot.” She quotes Roger Ebert commenting on her film “I Will ... I Will ... For Now”: “Diane Keaton is so painfully sincere, we’re not even sure some scenes are supposed to be funny.”

Her reaction to this blow? She took her cue from Randy, who had recently gotten some negative feedback on his artistic endeavors. Like her brother, Keaton threw herself into collaging and journaling. She even shares a few of the “short, depressing entries” she wrote at the time: “Woody has taken to buying cigarettes.”

“Art Linkletter’s daughter Diane jumped out a window.” “My face is open to deceit, deception ... and plain old apathy.”

Keaton also traces back to Randy what she recognizes as a career based on the projection of harmlessness. “My brother and I have done a good job of selling our brand of the innocuous encounter,” she writes. “I ask myself if my early disdain for his ever-ready smile was based on the fact that I copied it.”

After reading Katie Roiphe, all of this — the openness about her failures with her brother, her negative reviews and gloomy diary entries, the sharp-edged analysis of her own appeal — seems not just a bid for relatability (perhaps just another way of saying human connection), but an exercise in the redemptive power of admitting weakness and error.

A big chunk of contemporary memoir is devoted to the author figuring out where she went wrong in this or that phase of her life. I say “she” because women dominate this field; we are generally better at it than men, who rarely master the power move of vulnerability. One notable exception might be Hillary Clinton, who just couldn’t pull it off. As she wrote in her memoir, quoted by Roiphe, “What could I do to be ‘more real’? Dance on a table?

Swear a blue streak? Break down sobbing?

That’s not me.”

Breaking down sobbing, at least in print, is a good thing. We embrace it. We admire it. You could even say we need it — as an affirmation of and solace for the darker daily experiences of our lives.

Winik, a professor at the University of Baltimore, is the author of numerous books, including “First Comes Love,” “The Lunch-Box Chronicles” and, most recently, “The Big Book of the Dead.”

Anne Enright writes so well that she just might ruin you for anyone else. The deceptively casual flow of her stories belies their craft, a profound intelligence sealed invisibly behind life’s mirror. Over the course of seven novels, this first laureate of Irish fiction has won the Booker Prize — for “The Gathering” in 2007 — and won readers around the world.

Her new novel, “Actress,” explores a mother-daughter relationship burdened by fame. The narrator is a novelist named Norah recalling the tumultuous life of her mother: Katherine O’Dell, the late, great star of stage and screen. Enright weaves this fictional celebrity deep into the history of 20th-century entertainment.

O’Dell once brought audiences jumping to their feet in London, New York and Dublin. As “the globe-trotting muse of writers as various as Samuel Beckett and Arthur Kopit,” she captured the hearts of a generation. Reviewing her performance as Sister Mary Felicitas, Pauline Kael praised “the twinkle in the wimple.” Her flaming red hair was iconic. A line from her dairy commercial — “Sure, ‘tis only butter” — became a national catchphrase.

But Norah knows the story of this grande dame from the inside. “My mother was a great fake,” she says. “She was never happy.” That’s not entirely true — or it’s not the only truth as this narrative winds through grief and remorse, amazement and delight.

Norah’s retrospection is sparked by the inquiries of a pompous graduate student working on a doctoral thesis about O’Dell. “She would portray my mother in all her radical subjectivity,” Norah says, “by which she meant that she wanted to de-iconise her and show her as an agent in the world.”

Exasperated with such postmodern gobbledygook, Norah considers writing her own biography about her mother.

“Actress” isn’t that book; instead, it’s a thoughtful, sometimes wrenching consideration of what preparing to write such a book about her mother would entail. Enright has created the illusion of free-flowing association as Norah tries to extract her mother’s life from well-worn anecdotes, legends and deceptions. That detective work eventually involves a search for the identity of Norah’s father among the many men who cavorted with O’Dell. She could be a woman of disciplined graciousness and extreme passions. She fraternized with members of the IRA. She once shot a producer in the foot, an act of madness that wrenched the forgotten actress back into the news, got her committed to an asylum and marked her eventual demise.

For Norah, who was just trying to grow up and make a way in the world, her mother’s drama onstage and off was frequently embarrassing, sometimes exasperating. Only now, looking back as a mother herself, is she mature enough to consider the full spectrum of her mother’s character. She was an object of fantasy for millions but also a single woman contending with the demands of public adoration while facing the inevitable curse of age. “I began to see how she was, in the world,” Norah says, which is the last thing most of us can ever see about our mothers.

The chronology would appear no more ordered than

There were so many anecdotes of cheap disaster.

An actor went on with no sword and he used a shoe instead. An actor forgot his lines.

Or his pants. An actor fell down a hole.”

NORAH Protagonist in “Actress”

the flow of anecdotes around a dinner table, but there’s always a design to Enright’s novels, a gradual coalescing of insight.

Early on, “Actress” glides from one hilarious, calamitous theater story to the next. “There were so many anecdotes of cheap disaster,” Norah recalls, “an actor went on with no sword and he used a shoe instead. An actor forgot his lines.

Or his pants. An actor fell down a hole. ... An actor dies on stage, he really dies, he rolls his eyes up into the back of his head and he says, ‘I am dying,’ in a helpful tone of voice, and the actors keep going until belief drains out of them.” We’re drawn back to a time when traveling actors performed in towns that had no idea how the classics would end. In one village, a woman in the audience yells up to Romeo in the tomb: “Oh, give her a good shake!”

But the world outside the limelight could be very dark.

Enright re-creates an exploitative industry that young O’Dell moved through, from the backstages of little Irish theaters to the glitzy studios of Hollywood, which “owned her ‘image,’ if such a thing could be legally owned.” Everywhere lurked actors, directors and producers willing to use O’Dell, sometimes with shocking cruelty. If, at the time, her mother usually felt too powerless to strike back, Norah gets her revenge here with precise and killing descriptions of these insecure, manipulative creeps.

But beneath this theatrical story runs a more somber tale of Norah’s own disappointments, conveyed in asides and sighs.

Determined to learn from her mother’s experience with men, Norah ends up making many of the same mistakes — and some new ones, too. Craving the domestic stability that O’Dell never had or wanted, Norah constructs the most ordinary life possible. It’s the epitome of Enright’s subtlety: the way she can suggest the anaerobic pain of a strained marriage with just a few lines.

As Norah moves through the public and private lives of Katherine O’Dell, she not only re-creates a great actress in all her fascinating complications, she plumbs the depth of her own affection for a woman she was often too quick to judge.

Stripped raw of any sentimentality, the result is a critique, a confession, a love letter — and another brilliant novel from Anne Enright.

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AN EXTRA CHANCE Both vulnerable, East deals NORTH ♠Q982 ♥ Q43 ♦ 10 8 ♣ K 10 8 3 WEST ♠ A 10 ♥ J 10 6 ♦ J653 ♣QJ75

EAST ♠K ♥ 985 ♦ KQ9742 ♣A92 SOUTH ♠J76543 ♥ AK72 ♦A ♣64

The bidding: EAST SOUTH WEST NORTH 1♦ 1♠ 1NT 2♠ 3♦ 3♥ Pass 4♠ All pass Opening lead: Three of ♦ A typically aggressive modern auction. Bidding a close game, however, doesn’t earn you the game bonus — you still have to make it!

It looks like declarer will need West to hold the ace of clubs, but

that is not likely. West needs at least one high spade for his one no trump bid. Should he also hold the ace of clubs, that would leave East with very little to justify his bidding.

Looking for an extra chance, South remembered the auction.

West might have made a negative double rather than bidding one no trump if he had four hearts. There was a good chance that hearts were splitting 3-3. Even if West could ruff the third heart, it would probably be with a doubleton spade and that wouldn’t mean an extra loser for South. Hoping for the best, South cashed the ace and king of hearts and crossed to dummy with the queen of hearts, pleased that hearts split evenly. He now ruffed a diamond before finally leading a low spade to dummy’s queen.

It worked like a charm. East won with his singleton king, but he had to either give dummy the king of clubs or yield a ruff-sluff. 10 tricks for South either way after a very well-played hand.

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By Stella Wilder Born today, you are determined to make your dreams come true, and because you are willing and able to work longer and harder than most others in pursuit of your goals, you are more likely than almost anyone to reach them — often ahead of schedule! What is most important is that you choose your path at a relatively early age, for if you do, then it will be possible for you to chart a very specific, detailed path for yourself.

You make no promises that you cannot keep, and you sign up for nothing that you are unwilling to dedicate yourself to wholeheartedly. If you say you will do a thing, you will do it and devote all you have to doing it the very best you can.

Also born on this date are: Bryan Cranston, actor; Wanda Sykes, actress and comedian; Rachel Weisz, actress; Willard Scott, TV personality; John Heard, actor; Maurice Ravel, composer; Piet Mondrian, artist; Jeff Kent, baseball player.

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 8 PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You’re likely to hear or read something that sets you reeling — not because it is wrong, but because it is so very right. Much may change.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — The more you try to hide something from others today, the more likely it is that it will be revealed. Distraction is better than deception.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Your motives may be unclear to someone close to you, but you know full well what you are doing and why — and how it will benefit all concerned.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You’ve been trying to

change the results of a certain activity again and again without changing the activity itself. You must start with that!

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — It’s a good day to share all you can with those around you. What goes around comes around, so you can soon expect a return on your investment!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Confidence is on the rise, but you may yet balk at the suggestion that you throw caution to the wind. This is wise, as minor dangers abound.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You may think you’re ready to do something bold and daring, but you’re not — just yet. Today, an essential piece of the puzzle falls into place.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You must be patient with someone who has only just recently begun doing a certain something on his or her own — but watch what happens.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You may be trying to hide your eagerness from someone who knows you very well — but by day’s end, you’ll betray yourself quite naturally.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You cannot look away and let someone continue doing what you know is foolhardy. You must step in and put a stop to it — now!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — It may be time for you to hand over some of your responsibilities to someone whose time has come. He or she has learned much from you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You mustn’t expect the impossible to become possible as if by magic, but a realistic approach can do the trick, perhaps — over time.

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Technology is making your car headlights them safer

By RUSS MITCHELL Los Angeles Times (TNS)

How good are your headlights? Probably not as good as you think.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety on Thursday issued a list of the 23 safest 2020 passenger vehicles, based mainly on the institute’s crash worthiness tests.

Of those 23 vehicles, only six offer top-rated headlights as standard equipment, the IIHS said: the Genesis G70, the Honda Insight, the Hyundai Nexo, the Lexus NX, the Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid and the Tesla Model 3. The headlights on the other 17 models on the list are rated as “acceptable.”

“Few vehicles have headlights that do their job well,” according to the IIHS. Manufacturers are increasingly replacing old-style halogen bulbs with LEDs, which provide more light per unit of energy. But that’s not enough, said David Harkey, president of the institute, which is the research and safety arm of the insurance industry.

Design of the lamp assembly and integration with

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the triumvirate of soupy success).

Chop the cauliflower into spoon- or bite-size pieces. Not too small or it will cook too quickly and turn mushy. Work to make most of the pieces equal in size so that they cook through at the same time. The onion and cauliflower cook in the chicken (or vegetable) stock to boost all the flavors.

While the cauliflower is cooking, make a quick white sauce. Whisk the foaming butter and flour together until smooth and then cook until the flour smell is gone and it’s a toasty golden brown.

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player freedom at the forefront, this felt limiting to some.

According to Duke, it performed “middle of the road,” but managed to bring in a different audience because of its narrative focus.

The expansion pack business model continues throughout the franchise’s existence, with new content keeping the series alive and giving it a longevity few game franchises achieve. But such consistent production can be a recipe for disaster, as we’ve seen with other studios like Rockstar and, more recently, CD Projekt Red, which stated that crunch isn’t avoidable after the delay of Cyberpunk 2077.

In the past, EA has been in the spotlight for poor working conditions. In 2004, the publisher was hit with a class-action suit after employees allegedly worked 100-hour weeks without proper compensation. A settlement of $15.6 million was reached between

Pedestrian death rates are soaring nationally. The insurance industry says better headlights would help. Liz O. Baylen/Los Angeles Times

the car body is key, as are improved manufacturing processes “to make sure the tolerances they need for aim of headlights is much tighter,” he said.

Safer headlights provide “the best balance of visibility and lack of excessive glare for oncoming vehicles,” the IIHS said in a news release.

New headlight technologies available on higher-end cars include swiveling lamps that follow curves and high beams that turn on automatically on dark roads and turn off when

an oncoming car is detected.

“People don’t use their high beams as often as they should,” Harkey said. About half of all traffic fatalities occur between dusk and dawn, he said.

It seems obvious that good headlights help reduce crashes and the deaths of drivers, passengers and pedestrians.

But until recently, automakers have not made headlight quality a safety priority, according to the IIHS. “Achieving good or acceptable scores has been a challenge to the automakers,”

Pour in the warmed milk and continue to whisk until the sauce is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon. Once the beer is added to this sauce, it’s ready to be incorporated into the soup. At this point, it’s very easy to break the sauce - separating the fats so that it curdles - so keep the heat low and slow.

Finally, stirring in the grated cheese at the end protects the soup from breaking, too. This soup is best when made at the last minute (it only takes about 25 minutes). If reheating, do so slowly and gently, and never in the microwave.

I’ve served this soup with pretty pieces of cauliflower floating in the creamy base.

I’ve also whirred the vegetable in my blender for a smooth soup served in small sipping

cups, as prelude to dinner.

It looks pretty with a shower of chives on the top or a floating crouton. But we served it to our friend, road-weary and slightly shattered from too many hours on airplanes, with no garnish, ladled straight from the pot. She had three bowls. There’s something wonderful about devouring warm soup with friends.

I hope you’ll share some this week.

parties a year later, but it left a stain on EA’s reputation. Internally, it was a wake-up call.

“We were one of the first companies called out and it also meant we were one of the first companies that really actively tried to figure out how we change,” Duke said. “I think during my career here, we’ve made some really awesome strides in terms of how often it used to happen versus where we are now, which is pretty cool.”

Today, the entire Sims series has over 75 post-launch packs. With such consistent content drops, how do EA and Maxis stave off crunch? According to Duke, careful workflow patterns that put people first — he told The Post that work-life balance is a priority for the Sims team — helps make that possible.

“I believe very strongly in the idea that you can build great stuff without ever needing to crunch. And the key to that is really good planning and foresight,” Duke said.

Lauded as a game of selfexpression, The Sims has long been LGBTQ-friendly. Samesex relationships were possible from the start, and in The Sims 3, gay Sims could marry — a feature added years before same-sex marriage legislation passed anywhere in the United States.

“We constantly question each other about how to make our features or designs more broad, more inclusive,” Pearson said. “We challenge ourselves to learn about cultures

besides our own.”

In 2016, Maxis and EA expanded gender limitations, letting players create characters that don’t have a fixed gender and choosing whether they can reproduce. The 2019 Island Living expansion introduced the series’ first premade non-binary character.

Despite the more conscious effort nowadays, LGBTQ representation in The Sims started with a mistake. During the original game’s development, same-sex relationships were added by accident because of a mix-up with old design documents, according to a report by the New Yorker. When two female Sims unexpectedly kissed during an E3 presentation in 1999, the development team decided to keep it in.

Maxis and EA say they’ve taken great care in making a welcoming environment for people of different backgrounds and genders. In turn, this helps build a game that stays relevant to real-world societal shifts and cultures. Last year, for example, hijabs and kufi caps were added to The Sims 4. Maxis has also added content geared toward Caribbean culture, as well as celebrations like Diwali and Day of the Dead.

This diversity is also represented by the Maxis workforce. Nickolls notes that within Maxis, “nearly half” of his leadership team is made up of women. Laura Miele, EA’s chief studios officer, also notes that gender representation has improved within The Sims studios.

Pearson said The Sims “could not be what it is today” if it wasn’t for EA and Maxis “constantly striving” to broaden their perspectives as a team. “That means we need voices from women, people who grew up all over the world and voices of underrepresented groups,” she said.

In 2019, EA partnered with the LGBTQ nonprofit It Gets Better Project, bringing Pridethemed clothing and flags and

CHEESY CAULIFLOWER SOUP 8 servings (makes 3 quarts) This soup takes inspiration from Welsh rarebit, a classic pub dish of piping hot cheese sauce spiked with beer spooned over thick toast.

Here, the cauliflower gets the rarebit treatment, resulting in a soup that is cheesy and

Harkey said.

The IIHS began testing and publicly ranking headlights in 2016. According to Harkey, that goosed automakers into action. Besides the human carnage, crashes and deaths cost the insurance industry money through payouts and lawsuits.

While crash fatality numbers have flattened out at about 37,000 a year, pedestrian deaths are soaring. The Governors Highway Safety Association said that 6,227 pedestrians were killed in motor vehicle crashes in 2018, the highest level since 1990.

In 2019, 134 pedestrians and 19 bicyclists were killed in Los Angeles.

Car owners unhappy with headlight performance can buy LED modification kits online, but safety experts advise against it: because the lamps are not customized for a particular vehicle and its headlight housing, they could cast light so bright it blinds oncoming traffic. “There’s no reason consumers should have to resort to aftermarket products for headlights,”

Harkey said.

The IIHS also includes pedestrian detection systems in its safety assessments, although that feature is rarely available as standard equipment.

Crashworthiness remains the key component in the group’s safety evaluations. For 2020, 64 vehicle models of 219 tested received an IIHS rating of Top Safety Pick or Top Safety Pick Plus. Good or acceptable headlights are required to achieve a Plus rating.

The Hyundai Motor Group — Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis — had the most models on the safety list, with 14 of the 64 models. Mazda models comprised five of the top 23.

No minivans or pickups made the list. IIHS said most pickups lack pedestrian frontcrash warning as an option.

No vehicles from Mitsubishi or from FCA, which includes the Fiat, Chrysler, Ram and Jeep brands, made the cut.

Caught in the headlightsThe IIHS Top Safety Pick Plus list for the 2020 model year. All meet the most rigorous IIHS safety standards and come

standard with headlights rated “good” or “acceptable.”

slightly bitter from the dark beer.

Cooled soup can be stored in the refrigerator in an airtight container for up to 3 days.

Ingredients 2 tablespoons olive oil or vegetable oil 2 cups (10 ounces) diced onion, 1 large 1 teaspoon kosher salt, divided 4 cups (16 ounces) cauliflower florets, 1 medium 2 cups (16 ounces) low-sodium chicken broth or vegetable broth 3 tablespoons unsalted butter 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour 2 cups whole milk, warmed 1/2 cup dark beer, such as Guinness 1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves or 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 1 teaspoon dry mustard 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 2 cups (8 ounces) grated sharp cheddar cheese

Steps In a 5-quart stock pot over medium heat, heat the olive oil until shimmering. Add the onion and 1/2 teaspoon salt, stir and cook until the onion turns slightly golden, about 10 minutes. Add the cauliflower, stir everything together to coat with the oil, cook for an additional 3 to 4 minutes, add the broth and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium-low so the liquid is just simmering.

Cover the pot and cook until the cauliflower is fork-tender, 7 to 10 minutes.

While the cauliflower cooks, in a small saucepan over medium-high heat, melt the butter until foaming. Sprinkle the flour over the melted butter and whisk until smooth, forming a roux. Reduce the heat and continue to whisk

until the roux turns golden brown, about 7 minutes. Add the warmed milk in a stream, whisking until thick and smooth. Add the beer, whisking until smooth, and bring to a simmer, warming just until the bubbles have dispersed, 2 to 3 minutes.

Using a rubber spatula, scrape the beer sauce into the soup and stir until smooth.

Add the remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt, the thyme, Worcestershire, mustard, black pepper and cheese. Stir and heat until a silky cheese soup surrounds the cauliflower, 3 to 4 minutes. Serve hot.

Nutrition | Per serving: 280 calories, 12 g protein, 16 g carbohydrates, 19 g fat, 11 g saturated fat, 40 mg cholesterol, 410 mg sodium, 3 g dietary fiber, 7 g sugar

SMALL CARS Honda Insight Mazda 3 hatchback Mazda 3 sedan Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid

MIDSIZE CARS Mazda 6 Nissan Maxima Subaru Legacy Subaru Outback Toyota Camry

SMALL SUVS Mazda CX-3 Mazda CX-5 Subaru Forester

MIDSIZE LUXURY CARS Lexus ES Mercedes-Benz C-class Tesla Model 3

LARGE LUXURY CARS Audi A6 Genesis G70 Genesis G80

MIDSIZE LUXURY SUVS Acura RDX Cadillac XT6 Hyundai Nexo Lexus NX Mercedes-Benz GLE-class

A screenshot from The Sims 2. In the Sims games, you can build a character and a home from the ground up or, you can burn it all down and wreak havoc. Electronic Arts

options for building genderneutral bathrooms in-game.

And while having a wide range of backgrounds, ethnicities and orientations within EA and Maxis helps bolster its games to be more inclusive, Miele says it also provides a healthier work environment.

“I think (having a diverse team) influences the process and influences how this team works,” Miele said in a phone interview. “That’s what I’ve observed in how they develop strategy and design and how they approach and think about creativity.”

The Sims team has been creative in reflecting real-life trends too. Sometimes this has been achieved by inviting singers like Lily Allen and Katy Perry to make “Simlish” renditions of their hit songs, so that they can seamlessly fit into the fiction of The Sims. More recently, The Sims 4 riffed off phenomena like “Star Wars” (adding Baby Yoda as a statue in December, for example) and added a pack centered on tiny houses.

“I think that Sims provides

an incredible canvas for us to tap into all kinds of relevant trends, whether it be music, fashion, design and architecture, or in TV and media,” Miele said. “And we are going to continue to do more of that.

That is the direction we’re headed.”

Will there be a Sims 5? Miele told The Post that EA is “having conversations about the next generation” and what that will look like. One of the priorities going forward is giving the franchise an even wider reach.

“We are thinking about how modern media is consumed today, and the significant disruptions we’ve seen in media in the last three to five years, whether it be TV media, movie media, music media,” Miele said. “We’re thinking about similar opportunities to bring content to more people in more places on the most platforms as possible.”

In a financial call in late January, EA CEO Andrew Wilson spoke of plans for the next generation of Sims “across platforms in a cloud-enabled

world” and compared the concept of “social interaction and competition” to the late Sims Online.

“We certainly see interactive entertainment going to a place of streaming and being in a place where cross-platform play becomes a priority,” Miele said. “I certainly perceive The Sims to be incredibly accessible, very global.”

When asked whether we’d one day see a “definitive” version of The Sims that is continuously updated rather than one installment after the next, Miele said that it’s something she and her team have “thought deeply about.”

Is there an end in sight?

While Duke doesn’t want The Sims 5 to arrive “any time soon,” he said the series will continue to grow and evolve for years, maybe even decades, to come.

“It’s a game about life, and we all have an amazing abundance of experiences and stories we want to tell,” Duke said. “How are we ever going to finish The Sims? I don’t think we will.”