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Palenville man charged with animal abuse

Major exhibit devoted to Cole

By Bill Williams

Columbia-Greene Media

PALENVILLE — Two adolescent dogs are alive and a Greene County man is facing charges, thanks to the quick actions of police and local rescue groups.

Zackery Diehl, 29, of Palenville, was arrested Thursday night and charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty, said Capt. Tracey Quinn of the Greene County Sheriff’s Office.

Police released few details of what occurred with the dogs, but confirmed the abuse was physical, and not a nutrition or shelter issue, Quinn said.

The dogs involved are litter mates, both are six-month old pitbull-mix, said Jesica Farkas, Columbia-Greene Humane Society shelter manager.

The male is named Scoob and the female is named Paris, Farkas said.

“The Sheriff’s Office did an outstanding job in investigating and removing Paris and Scoob from what is alleged by witnesses as an absolutely horrid cruelty situation,” said Ron Perez, Columbia-Greene Humane Society president and CEO. The investigation began Thursday after the sheriff’s office received a complaint of possible animal abuse, Quinn said.

After Diehl was charged, the dogs were surrendered to police and were turned over to Hyer Ground Rescue in Catskill for the night, Quinn said.

The dogs were brought to a safe location and were checked on hourly until they See ABUSE A11

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The Thomas Cole National Historic Site is presenting a major new exhibition of Cole’s work through October 30.

By Ted Remsnyder Columbia-Greene Media

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Paris and Scoob were both rescued by police on Thursday night. Their owner is facing animal cruelty charges.

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ColumbiaGreene Humane Society shelter manager Jessica Farkas holds Paris, who was rescued by police on Thursday night.

Her owner is facing animal cruelty charges.

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Columbia-Greene Humane Society Office Manager Katie Prack and Scoob, who was rescued by police on Thursday night. His owner is facing animal cruelty charges.

CATSKILL — A major exhibit at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site is expected to attract crowds to Catskill throughout the summer and fall, Cole Trustee Linda Gentalen told the Catskill Town Board on Tuesday.

The new exhibition, “Memory and Inspiration,” opened April 30 and runs through Oct. 30 at the historic site, which encompasses the home and studio of famed Hudson Valley landscape artist Thomas Cole.

“There is some exciting stuff going on this season,” Gentalen said. “We have an exhibit that as an old Cole fan, it took my breath away. We expect a lot of visitors for this and that is really big, too.

It’s a special thing because (the exhibition) is all Cole. Normally, See COLE A11

Democrats expect to hold 19th District

By Natasha Vaughn-Holdridge Columbia-Greene Media

Local, state and federal officials weighed in Friday on the future of the 19th Congressional District as U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado prepares for his new job as lieutenant governor of New York.

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced this week she appointed Delgado, D-19, to succeed former Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin, who resigned in April from his post after being indicted in connection with illegal campaign donations.

Delgado’s move is expected to change what the leadership of the 19th District looks like in the near future.

Unlike some congressional districts, New York’s 19th turned from primarily red, or Republican, to purple as more registered Democats moved north from New York City into

the district. Prior to Delgado’s election in 2018, it had been Republican-held by John Faso from 2017-19, Chris Gibson, 2013-17 and Nan Hayworth from 2011-13. From 2007-2011 the district went Democrat led

by Orleans vocalist John Hall.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, DN.Y., called Hochul’s selection of Delgado “great news.”

“He will provide an additional voice that upstate needs,” Gillibrand said. “He is a wise and thoughtful choice.”

Gillibrand also said the governor and lieutenant governor would be “a great ticket, a great partnership.”

Delgado has held the seat since 2019 and he was expected to run for reelection later this year against Republican challenger, Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro, who announced his candidacy last September.

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Delgado’s office did not respond to numerous calls, texts and emails seeking comment.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, weighed in on Delgado stepping down from his seat in Congress.

“The people of New York will be well-served by his intellectual brilliance, tireless work ethic, strong values and his extraordinary talent for communicating with his constituents,” Pelosi said in a statement. “He and Gov. Kathy Hochul will make a terrific team, and we wish him all the best in his continued public service as lieutenant governor.”

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee expects to win the seat and continue to hold the 19th District.

“We are going to remind voters every step of the way what See DISTRICT A11

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The 2020 wildfires that incinerated a record 4.3 million acres in California harken to centuries past when huge swaths of the state burned annually, researchers have found, but today’s climate-driven conflagrations are far more destructive to the environment and human health.

“California is in for a very smoky future, and the continued resilience and even persistence of numerous terrestrial ecosystems is not assured,” concluded a new study published in the journal Global Ecology and Biogeography.

The state’s Mediterranean climate, with its normally wet winters and dry, hot summers, has primed California to burn throughout its history. Before colonization, though, such wildfires helped keep the state’s vast forests healthy by burning underbrush and triggering trees to release their seeds, according to scientists.

The 2020 wildfires marked a turning point. Fires burned 4.2% of the state that year, about the acreage annually consumed by fire before European and American settlement. But a century of fire suppression has left California with what the researchers call a “massive fire deficit” as forests become choked with trees and undergrowth.

The payback in 2020 was devastating. All that fuel, rising temperatures, drought and high winds dramatically increased the intensity and speed of wildfires, which burned 2.2 times more land than the previous record set only two years earlier.

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A hillside burns during the Glass Fire in Napa County, Calif., on Sept. 27, 2020.

Firefighting costs neared $2.1 billion and the wildfires caused $19 billion in economic losses and 33 deaths. Fires burning hundreds of miles away blanketed the heavily populated San Francisco Bay Area in a layer of toxic smoke so thick it turned the sky an apocalyptic shade of orange. Scientists expect exposure to particulate matter in the smoke to lead to thousands of premature deaths over time.

“It’s a return to the past and a harbinger of the future,” said wildfire expert Hugh Safford, the lead author of the paper and a researcher at University of California at Davis. “I don’t think you can get away from this strong inertia of forests burning.”

The researchers correlated the severity of wildfires in 2020 with how much time had lapsed

since forests and chaparral last burned. In many cases, forests had not burned for more than a century, and as a result the fierceness of the fires destroyed so many trees that some woodland ecosystems may not recover.

“We’re going to be transitioning into dryland-type ecosystems that are dominated by shrublands, and grasslands,” said Safford, a retired U.S. Forest Service ecologist. “In 50 to 60 years, Northern California could look like parts of Southern California if we keep going in this direction.”

Climate change has set the trajectory of more widespread wildfires in California and experts expect a record-breaking drought, diminishing snowpack and heat waves to make for a potentially catastrophic

wildfire season this summer.

The researchers called for a change in government strategy that has long focused on reducing the amount of land burned by wildfires. Instead, they said, the priority should be on lessening the severity of fires and restoring ecosystems of burned areas.

That would require a huge investment in thinning overgrown forests that fuel out-ofcontrol wildfires while under the right conditions, letting fires burn in wilderness areas that are inaccessible due to steep terrain.

“We know what to do,” said Safford. “We’ve known for 60 years that fire is an escapable and integral part of these ecosystems.”

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Global food prices hold near record as crop trade is disrupted by the war in Ukraine

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Global food prices held near a record as crop trade is disrupted by the war in Ukraine, exacerbating tight supplies and stoking inflation.

Russia’s invasion has reduced exports from Ukraine to a trickle, curbing supplies from one of the world’s biggest grain and vegetable oil shippers. That’s sent buyers flocking elsewhere, while some nations are moving to restrict sales as they worry about depleting local reserves.

High fertilizer prices and weather worries are adding to the threat for global crop supplies, including drought curbing the U.S. wheat crop.

That risks compounding a deepening hunger crisis. A United Nations food index eased less than 1% in April, holding near an all-time high.

“It’s really a minimal amount of decline,” Erin Collier, economist at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, said by phone.

“Prices are still definitely very high and definitely still very much a concern, especially for low-income fooddeficit countries.”

Prices fell for major staples including vegetable oils and grain, while meat reached the highest ever and dairy rose, the FAO report showed Friday. The gauge had soared 13% in March, its fastest pace on record, in the immediate aftermath of Russia’s attack.

It’s eclipsed levels from 2008

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to 2011 that contributed to global food crises.

The slight decline in prices in April was partly due to falling demand for vegetables oil, and weaker corn prices.

However, there are uncertainties about palm-oil availability from Indonesia, the agency said.

Officials in Indonesia, the world’s top edible-oil shipper, recently restricted sales of palm oil abroad. That adds to a rash of crop protectionism since the war began, with countries like Serbia and Kazakhstan imposing quotas on grain shipments. India is also said to be considering limiting wheat exports after severe heat damaged crops, while its government said Thursday it doesn’t see a case for restrictions.

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Surging food prices are piling pressure on governments spanning Sri Lanka to Peru.

The inflation rate in Turkey is at a two-decade high, buoyed by rising grocery bills. U.K. retailers are also warning of higher costs to come, as supply-chain bottlenecks hold up shipments.

Countries continue to purchase grain despite high

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prices, Collier said. Dry spells hurting wheat crops in areas like Morocco may also boost their import needs for the coming season.

Acute food insecurity spiked 25% last year, before the war in Ukraine began, and the hunger problem is likely to deteriorate further in 2022, a report from the Global Network for Food Crises said earlier this week.

“We’ve got the breadbasket of the world being turned into bread lines,” David Beasley, executive director of the World Food Programme, said at a briefing. The war in Ukraine “is going to devastate the food security situation around the world.”

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Saugerties woman charged in December head-on crash

By Bill Williams Columbia-Greene Media

SAUGERTIES — Following an investigation into a December accident in Saugerties, an Ulster County woman was arrested Wednesday on charges related to the crash, Saugerties police chief Joseph Sinagra said.

Lori Valdes, 56, of Saugerties has been charged with driving while ability impaired by drugs, speed not reasonable or prudent and failure to stay in designated lane, Sinagra said.

The accident occurred on Dec. 17 at about 2:48 p.m., when police responded to the area of 503 Kings Highway after receiving reports that a 2006 Volkswagen Passat had crashed into a 2015 Chevrolet 3500 dump truck, belonging to the Ulster County Department of Public Works, Sinagra said.

Valdes’s vehicle was being driven north when she failed to negotiate a

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curve and crossed the double yellow line, colliding with the truck head-on,

Crisis prevention is primary focus of MCAT

By Ted Remsnyder Columbia-Greene Media

CATSKILL — The Mobile Crisis Assessment Team is one of Greene County’s top tools in the effort to combat the opioid crisis, and Director Katie Oldakowski provided an update on the group’s operations at the Greene County Legislature’s Health Services Committee meeting Wednesday.

The Health Association of Columbia-Greene Counties team was established in 2015 to provide crisis services to both counties with eight hours per day set aside for each.

The team, which includes 19 staff members, with five fulltime employees, has served 3,162 individual Greene County residents since the start of the program in 2015.

Oldakowski told the legislature that the team has been dispatched 2,503 times in the county in the past seven years.

When grant funding for the program through the Greene and Columbia County HEALing Communities initiative expired at the end of 2021, the two counties agreed to step in and fund the crisis team.

Greene and Columbia counties split the funding of the team 50-50, with each county chipping in $170,000 to fund the program annually.

“That’s why the two counties got together, because we were advised that they were going to lose their funding,” Greene County Administrator Shaun Groden said. “They may have gone dark. They may not have been able to continue this operation, so each county discussed the prospects and we both agreed that we would equally fund it, almost similar to what we do with the community college. We each contribute to the community college for the benefit of both counties.”

Oldakowski said the primary services the team provides include prevention, crisis intervention and hospital discharge follow-up.

“I think the big question is what does that funding get you?” Oldakowski said. “When you look at the total budget and you look at all of the services that we provide, MCAT focuses on prevention before someone is in a crisis and we want to link them to services and make sure that they have the resources that they need. Doctors, health insurance, whatever it is, we’re going to make sure that they get connected to where they need to go. Crisis intervention is our primary focus, whether

someone is suicidal, homicidal or acting in a way that’s a danger to themselves or others.

Substance use is also included in the crisis intervention benefit from the state, so that’s something that we have tackled since 2015.”

The team has received 97,448 phone calls from residents in distress since July 2015 and has a 93% diversion rate for unnecessary hospitalization and a 99% diversion rate from police intervention for the calls they respond to.

Greene County Mental Health Center Director Jason Fredenberg said the team provides a needed complement to his agency’s staff.

“When they started it was just a game-changer in terms of the types of resources that they could offer to the community,” Fredenberg told the Legislature. “It was just remarkable. My entire staff felt the difference when they came into town.”

Oldakowski told the Legislature the team has an average response time of 30 minutes to calls in each county.

“They’re mobile, so if a law enforcement person comes across someone who is overdosing or those types of things, they can react,” Groden said Friday. “There was an issue on the mountaintop and they got there in 30 minutes. With Mental Health it’s a scheduled appointment and it’s a whole different concept. So the ability to stabilize somebody and either prevent the overdose from reaching fatality or clogging up the emergency room, is the significance of it.”

In 2019, the team provided Greene County with $636,938 in estimated cost savings by diverting police interventions, ambulance transportation and psychiatric emergency department visits.

Greene County Legislator Michael Bulich, R-Catskill, asked Oldakowski during Wednesday’s meeting if calls had doubled over 2018-19 levels due to the pandemic.

“With this pandemic that we went through, obviously mental health pressures increased on people when they were at home and isolated,” Bulich said.

“Yes and no,” Oldakowski replied. “Because of the shelter in place, it was actually a decline in services across the board initially. We were getting calls from people who were looking for services or just needed to talk through their anxiety or whatever their issues were.

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Sinagra said.

Valdes was trapped in the vehicle

and had to be extricated out of the car by the Mount Marion Fire Department. She was treated at the scene by paramedics from Diaz Ambulance and then flown to Albany Medical Center

by Life Net, Sinagra said.

Both county employees in the dump truck were treated at the scene and then taken by Diaz Ambulance to Westchester Medical Center on Broadway in Kingston, with non-life-threatening injuries, Sinagra said.

The investigation into the crash has continued since December. Toxicology results verified that Valdes was operating her vehicle at a time when she was under the influence of three different types of narcotic drugs, Sinagra said.

Valdes was processed at Saugerties police headquarters and was released with appearance tickets for Town of Saugerties Justice Court.

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But there wasn’t anyone being seen in person and then it was kind of a holding pattern for a while. Then it exploded and we saw the mental health system cracking with staffing with the capabilities that we have.

This wasn’t just in Greene and Columbia counties, this was counties across the state.”

Groden said the county could use some of the funding that Greene is set to receive from opioid manufacturer settlements to provide funding to the team.

“It kind of started out as a solution to a crisis, and now we’ll have to work with state reps to see if we can get them more permanent funding from the state,” Groden said. “There’s also the possibility we use some of our money from the lawsuit settlements. They have very specific requirements about how the opioid settlements can be expended. Maybe we can use some of that money in lieu of our own money.”

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Mobile Crisis Assessment Team Director Katie Oldakowski provided an update on the group’s operations at the Greene County Legislature’s Health Services Committee meeting on May 4.

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Hudson’s permanent residents come first

Hudson is in the middle of an affordable housing crisis due to soaring rents, rising home prices and gentrification.

The Hudson Industrial Development Agency declared a moratorium on any prospective hotel applications in the city for the next 90 days. That was the correct decision at the right time.

The pause will give the IDA time to compose concrete and transparent evaluation criteria on how to decide whether a prospective hotel or business is appropriate for the city and the impacts it will have on the community.

This is the correct deci-

sion as well.

At a time when the city’s residents are being priced out of their homes, having an overabundance of less expensive accommodations for visitors while permanent housing goes begging is disingenuous at best, socially unacceptable at worst. Testimony on community initiatives and a revamped evaluation process has to be gathered from a diverse and representative group in the community so the evaluation criteria are fair and comprehensive. “The evaluation criteria give us an idea for how to look at applications differently and fully,” 5th Ward Council

Member Dominic Merante said Thursday.

Deriving from three public workshops was a preliminary framework for a community benefits agreement — a way the prospective developers in the city could communicate how projects can align with community needs. The use of baseline guidelines such as considering the affordable housing needs of employees and workers is one aspect of that agreement.

City officials should put Hudson’s permanent residents first as the IDA works through its 90-day window.

If they don’t, the impacts on the community could be great.

ANOTHER VIEW

Abortion foes should gear up to win the fight for public opinion Henry Olsen The Washington Post

Pro-lifers should take heed of the ferocious blowback to Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. They need to keep their wits about them in the coming months and focus on the long game: changing public opinion.

Abraham Lincoln was right when he said that in democracies, “public sentiment is everything ... [H]e who moulds public sentiment . . . makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.” If Americans believe abortion is wrong, then abortion opponents will prevail.

Public sentiment today, however, is nuanced but favorable to abortion rights.

Polls consistently show that a majority of Americans believe a woman should have a right to abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy. But those polls also show that majorities favor banning abortion after that point. So long as this sentiment prevails, it is folly for pro-lifers to try to advance any nationwide ban on the procedure.

Majorities in many states, however, take a different view. In some deeply Republican states, a clear majority of voters oppose abortion, either from conception or after the point where a fetus develops a heartbeat.

Majorities in swing states

likely fall in line with the national median, backing bans after the first trimester but not beforehand. This means it’s essential that, immediately after Roe falls, states with antiabortion majorities move to enact laws that reflect the consensus in their state, while eschewing any federal action.

In the long term, prolifers should work toward convincing the public that an unborn child in the first trimester is truly a human being worthy of legal protection. That means emphasizing the basic embryology of fetal development and making undisputed medical facts more widely known. According to the Mayo Clinic, for example, the baby’s heart begins to form by Week 6 and a recognizable head is present

by Week 7. At that point the unborn child could not survive outside of the mother’s womb, but it is a biologically distinct and separate entity.

The antiabortion cause will start to prevail when a majority of Americans see this entity as a human being worthy of legal protection rather than a protohuman that is essentially an extension of the mother’s body.

That means giving it moral status, a status antiabortion advocates already attach to it but which millions of persuadable Americans do not. Changing minds will take time.

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It will also require doing more than making the biological basis for opposing abortion available on websites; it means actively promoting the facts in the public square. This in turn means tutoring leaders and legislators in the early stages of life and providing advice on how to talk about them.

Republican legislators rarely go into any detail when publicly queried about their abortion stance, which allows the abortion rights advocates to characterize their views as derived solely from religious or other principles.

Pro-lifers should encourage their friends to wade into the scientific battle rather than shy away from it.

Pro-lifers should also consider how to use public power to advance the debate. Would it be inappropriate, for example, to require sex education classes to teach the basic facts of embryonic development?

The federal government and some states give public funds to abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood. Would it be improper for states such as Florida to fund crisis pregnancy centers to help mothers cope with their burden? Inventive minds can surely come up with many ways for government entities to legitimately support the antiabortion cause without overstepping legal bounds.

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Why the Supreme Court told Boston its ‘Christian’ flag ban won’t fly The idea, the city said cheerily, was to “foster diversity,” “create an environment in the City where everyone feels included,” and promote harmony “among Boston’s many communities.” What could possibly go wrong? In today’s prickly America, enough to require the Supreme Court to referee the dispute.

It so did on Monday, giving the city a tutorial about the obvious: Public forums are open to the public. Boston did, however, bring unity: The court spoke unanimously, through an opinion by retiring Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who is heading home to an edified Boston.

There, at City Hall, from time to time — 284 times in 12 years, before a problem occurred — the city allowed various groups to fly their flags from where the city’s usually flies. The flags of China and Cuba have flown there. The 285th request was from a group wishing to celebrate Christians’ contributions to Boston, by flying what the group’s leader calls a “Christian flag.”

Calling it this probably made a city official skittish. The mere fact that the flag includes a cross would not have alarmed the employee of a city whose flag includes Latin words that translate as “God be with us as he was with our fathers.” And the Bunker Hill flag, which contains the St. George’s cross, is quite similar to the “Christian flag,” but not so described. The categorization of the flag as “Christian” caused the Boston official to flinch from the possibility of becoming entangled with the migraine-inducing nuances of establishment clause jurisprudence. So, one word on the application was the reason the city censored the flag.

One can sympathize with him. The constitutional injunction that there shall be no laws “respecting an establishment of religion” has produced much hairsplitting, as when the court in the 1970s held that public

GEORGE F.

WILL funds could be used to provide books for parochial schools, but not maps. A bemused Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, DN.Y, wondered: What about atlases, which are books of maps?

The Christian flag people say that the city has described this one pole as one of the city’s “public forums” for “all applicants.” But the city says: Not so, the forum is only the ground around the pole. A federal appeals court sided with the city, saying that whatever is run up the city’s pole constitutes government speech, and governments can say what they like as long as they avoid endorsing religion. Nine justices disagreed, saying that the city created a public forum open to all.

The three-pronged test of whether a government involvement with religion avoids violating the establishment clause is: The involvement must have a “secular legislative purpose,” its “primary effect” must not advance or inhibit religion, and it must not foster “excessive government entanglement with religion.” Breyer easily concluded that brief flagraising ceremonies — unlike, say, government supervision of messages on license plates that government requires drivers to purchase, or the placement of permanent monuments in public parks — are not government speech. They are constitutionally protected private speech by participants in the ceremonies, hence do not implicate the establishment clause.

In a trenchant concurrence, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil M. Gorsuch, provides a properly restrictive definition of “government speech,” one that, were it adopted by the court, would prevent government from expansively claiming to be speaking when it really is not. This would prevent government, as in this case, from subjecting private speakers to viewpoint discrimination. This is Alito’s definition: “Government speech occurs if — but only if — a government purposefully expresses a message of its own through persons authorized to speak on its behalf.”

In another concurrence, Gorsuch argues for abandoning the three-prong test of establishment. Its complex cleverness has, he says, produced “chaos” by not being “humble” enough to adhere to the establishment clause’s original meaning. Look above at the phrases in quotation marks in the three-pronged test. Now, Gorsuch’s criticism: “It’s hard not to wonder whether some simply prefer the policy outcomes [the test] can be manipulated to produce.” That is, the test’s elastic terms are amenable to stretching enough to frequently find “establishment” of religion.

Gorsuch quotes the eminent legal scholar Michael W. McConnell: “No one at the time of the founding is recorded as arguing that the use of religious symbols in public contexts was a form of religious establishment.”

It is axiomatic that hard cases often make bad law. Boston’s flag case was easy, but beneath the surface unanimity, within the concurrences, there bubbled a ferment of disagreement that might be a harbinger of better law resulting from renewed respect for the original meaning of “establishment.”

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The weather was beautiful, warm and sunny. I betook myself outside to partake in one of the rites of warm weather that I particularly enjoy — grilling.

I fired up the gas grill, congratulating myself because it didn’t cost me my eyebrows as it sometimes does.

While waiting for the chicken parts to reach that succulent shade of black crispness indicating the bird had suffered the required third degree burn that is the trademark of “Brooks Black Meat” as my sons so lovingly referred to my culinary masterpieces, I noticed a wasp on the bench next to me. The poor thing had flown through the dense cloud of smoke rising from the grill and looked stunned.

These small insects and their relatives have provided me with much entertainment and excitement in my lifetime.

I’m allergic to their sting and try to avoid close contact more than absolutely necessary.

They’re not one of my favorite bugs but they’ve got to make a living too, I suppose. This little guy finally shook off his smoke inhalation and flew off into the sunset. This reminded me of an incident which I was a witness to in my childhood.

We were blessed with some interesting neighbors, who shall remain nameless for reasons which will become

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BROOKS apparent shortly. Well, I can use their first names — this tale involves the father, Ed and two of his sons, Gary and Lloyd. Intellectually, the elevator didn’t reach the top floor for any of them, they weren’t the sharpest tools in the toolbox, they were two cans shy of a six pack, they shared an IQ — well, you get the idea.

As I stood in our backyard, I noticed the animated actions of the group from next door and tried to figure out what was going on. It seems that one of them had noticed a huge paper wasp’s nest that had been built high on the eaves of their shed. It was a situation that obviously called for action on their part or so the pointing and yelling led me to believe. Ed was giving orders right and left and his two boys were scurrying around like the Keystone Cops. First Gary appeared, dragging a large galvanized tub that Lloyd proceeded to fill with water. A discussion then ensued that I

couldn’t hear but ended with Ed going into the shed and reappearing shortly with a 10 foot section of stovepipe.

As the boys offered suggestions and shouted encouragement, Ed slowly raised the stovepipe and placed it over the wasp nest. He then shook the pipe violently back and forth, breaking the nest loose from the eaves. The nest slid down the pipe and into the water filled tub.

It didn’t sink to the bottom, drowning the nasty little critters as was expected by these intellectual night lights. No, it bobbed to the surface almost immediately and a whole cloud of excited insects taught them the meaning of the phrase, “madder than a wet hornet.” I lay on the ground, gasping for air as the whole clan ran, twisting and twirling, slapping and screaming for the safety of the house.

I learned a lot that day about thinking things through, about wasps and the joy of laughing until you hurt, not to mention all the neat new words I picked up during the scramble for the house. It was a great day!

Thought for the week — Silly is a state of mind, stupid is a way of life.

Until next week, may you and yours be happy and well.

Reach Dick Brooks at whittle12124@yahoo.com.

Home again, home again

By Bob Beyfuss

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I returned home from my Florida sojourn just over a week ago and I am delighted to be back in the beautiful Catskill Mountain, Hudson Valley region. I love spending my winter seasons in sunny Florida, but this is my real home. When I left Florida it was already late spring there, but the seasons seem to have subtle changes in that part of the country, unless you are a native and much more aware than I will ever be. There is nothing subtle at all about spring when it arrives in Greene County! Springtime in Florida sneaks up on you, but it smacks you hard in the face when you live in the great Northeast. The face smack does not hurt much though, because spring wears a soft glove when it finally arrives.

People who think one cannot go back in time, have probably never driven 1,400 miles north, from Central Florida to upstate New York in late April. You don’t even need to travel that far, if you head northwest into the Catskill Mountains from the Hudson Valley. Kingston to Hunter is a two week time travel by itself.

I always fear that I will miss some of the sequence of bloom that begins in April, if I dally for too long. This year that certainly has not been the case! The woods surrounding my home are still dormant and transparent. The wood thrush, oven birds, robins, chickadees and red wing blackbirds are singing their songs, as if the world depends on it. I just wish some Tom turkeys would be gobbling as well, nearby, so I could attempt to shoot one. Life and death are a natural state of affairs that

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BEYFUSS we often take for granted. Two new babies, I am very pleased to know, have arrived to witness their first springtime, as I witness my 73rd. Welcome to the world, babies Corinna and Victor. Your parents will teach you some of what I have taught them and that makes me very happy.

This is a great time to start some seeds indoors for this summer’s vegetable garden.

I remind you to rely on your soil thermometer and not the calendar before you set out any transplants. The soil temperature in a bed in front of my house has not yet reached 50 degrees. Lettuce and some other spring greens can tolerate those temperatures, but not much else! A layer of black plastic mulch will warm the top soil faster. There is no sign at all of my asparagus, or even any weeds in my garden. The four inch layer of straw mulch I put on last November keeps the ground colder than bare soil and it will take at least a week or two longer for the beds to be warm up enough to plant. My October planted garlic is about 3 inches tall now and it is the only thing green in my garden!

If you grow strawberries, now is the time to remove the straw mulch you should have applied last fall. Their flower

buds were fully formed last year in the short days of October and November. Slugs are already becoming active and you may need to apply a protective spray for early insect pests as well. Put a piece of fruit on the ground and check it for slugs early the next morning to see if they are present already. I prefer a protective spray early in the season than spraying when the fruit is already formed and beginning to ripen. Strawberries are highly prized by turtles as well as chipmunks!

There is still time to prune your apple and pear trees, even if they have already bloomed, but wait on peaches, plums and cherries until early June. You can stick some flowering crab apple branches in your eating apple trees, if they are blooming at the same time. Crab apples are excellent pollinators for all apple trees and the extra blossoms will make the trees more attractive to pollinating insects.

My lawn is still weeks away from needing to be mowed for the first time this season, but some of you have already had to mow twice, or more.

Crabgrass will begin to germinate as forsythia blossoms fade and for those of you who care about crabgrass, consider using corn gluten meal as a preventive measure. The meal doubles as an organic fertilizer, containing 10% nitrogen and it is actually more effective the second year after you use it. No need at all to apply any other lawn fertilizers right now. I have seen quite a bit of grub damage to lawns this spring and it is almost always occurring in fertilized lawns.

Reach Bob at rlb14@cornell.edu.

DEC issues guidance on spring recreation in the Adirondacks ALBANY - The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) reminds visitors to recreate responsibly in the Adirondacks this spring to help protect State lands for future generations. Spring is an excellent time to get outdoors and enjoy warming temperatures, but it can also pose many risks to outdoor enthusiasts, wildlife, and natural resources. DEC encourages visitors to public lands to recreate responsibly to protect themselves and the resource.

Practice the Seven Principles of Leave No Trace (https://www.dec.ny.gov/ outdoor/119881.html): Leave No Trace™ principles provide a framework for safe and sustainable recreation.

Based on outdoor ethics rather than rules, the principles provide guidelines that can be tailored to a variety of outdoor activities and an individual’s specific experience. Before heading out to visit State lands, DEC encourages outdoor adventurers to review and familiarize themselves with these principles to help be prepared, stay safe, and minimize damage to shared lands and waterways.

Follow the Muddy Trail Advisory (https://www.dec. ny.gov/press/125123.html): Hikers are advised to avoid hiking on high elevation trails above 2,500 feet until further notice. Despite recent warm weather, high elevation trails are still covered in slowly melting ice and snow.

These steep trails feature thin soils that become a mix of ice and mud as winter conditions melt and frost leaves the ground. Sliding boots destroy trail tread, damage surrounding vegetation, and erode thin soils, increasing the likelihood of washouts; rotten snow and monorails are a safety hazard even with proper equipment; and high elevation and alpine vegetation are extremely fragile during this time.

Hikers can encounter thick mud, flooding, ice, and deep slushy snow even on lowelevation trails.

Walk through the mud, slush, or standing water and down the center of the trail.

This helps to reduce erosion and trail widening and minimizes damage to trailside vegetation; Do not attempt to walk through high or fast-moving water; Waterproof boots, gaiters, and trekking poles are recommended to safely and comfortably traverse these variable trail conditions; and Choose from DEC recommended list of hikes (https://www.dec.ny.gov/ outdoor/116823.html) found throughout the Adirondacks that are great alternatives to popular high elevation hikes.

Avoid wet and muddy

mountain biking trails: Trail systems can be severely damaged by eager mountain bikers who hit the trail too early in the season.

Avoid biking on trails until they are dried and hardened; Check with local organizations for conditions and consider alternate trail options like multi-use recreation trails, durable gravel road systems, or paved roadways; Research area regulations for bike allowances ahead of time; and Consider volunteering time to trail work and help local organizations repair trails and prepare for mountain biking season.

Plan and prepare for variable conditions: Spring weather can change rapidly. Prepare for every occasion by bringing the 10 Hike Smart NY (https://www.dec. ny.gov/outdoor/28708.html) essentials, including: food, water, navigation, warm layers, snowshoes and traction devices, a headlamp, first-aid kit, and matches or a lighter.

Stay up to date with current weather reports and if the forecast calls for harsh conditions, consider rescheduling.

Always check the forecast the morning and evening of a planned trip and the day after a trip so the proper gear is brought in case of an emergency or unplanned overnight. Make a timeline, including a turnaround time, and stick to it. Visitors should leave their trip plans with a trusted friend or relative that will call for help if they don’t return on time.

Safely enjoy spring water recreation: Paddling, fishing and boating are great ways to sustainably enjoy the outdoors this spring if done responsibly. Waterways are still very cold and with spring snow melt, high water and swift currents are always a possibility.

Always wear a personal flotation device (PFD) (required by law before May 1). Water temperatures are cold. A person in the water can quickly lose the ability to keep their head above water; Use caution entering and exiting canoes, kayaks, or boats; Heed high water warnings and do not attempt to fish or paddle during times of high and swift waters; Research a trip ahead of time and follow any warnings or advisories for select paddling routes; Watch closely for trees, branches, rocks and debris both above the surface and underwater while paddling; and Always clean, drain, and dry boats, wash boots and waders, and check for aquatic hitchhikers upon exiting a waterway to avoid the spread of aquatic invasives species (https://www.dec.ny.gov/ animals/50121.html).

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Know how to protect against ticks: Ticks are very small bugs that can spread Lyme and various other diseases through their bites.

Deer ticks live in shady, moist areas at ground level. Be tick free (https://www.dec. ny.gov/public/111538.html): Wear light-colored clothing with a tight weave to spot ticks easily; Wear enclosed shoes, long pants and a long-sleeved shirt. Tuck pant legs into socks or boots, and shirt into pants; Check clothes and any exposed skin frequently for ticks while outdoors; Consider using insect repellent on clothing; and Stay on cleared, well-traveled trails. Walk in the center of trails. Avoid dense woods and bushy areas.

Give wildlife ample space: Spring is a vulnerable time for wildlife. Some come out of hibernation and most begin to search for fresh food wherever they can find it. This can mean wildlife encounters closer to trails, parking areas, and roadways.

Never follow, approach, or feed wildlife. Human food can harm wildlife and feeding wildlife can create bad habits that lead to unwanted human interaction and habituation; Keep pets on leash to avoid startling wildlife; If you care, leave them there (https://www.dec. ny.gov/animals/6956.html) – Do not disturb young fawns or other young wildlife.

View from a distance and call a wildlife rehabilitator (https://www.dec.ny.gov/ animals/83977.html) if concerned the animal is orphaned or injured; Many rock-climbing routes (https://www.dec. ny.gov/outdoor/7870.html) are closed to protect nesting peregrine falcons. Check closings before going; Know how to reduce bear encounters while hiking and camping. Bear canisters are required to be used in the High Peaks Wilderness April 1-November 30 and are recommended for all backcountry users throughout the Adirondacks and Before heading out to camp, learn more about bear canisters (https://www.dec. ny.gov/animals/7225.html) and avoiding human-bear conflicts (https://www.dec. ny.gov/animals/6995.html).

New York State lands belong to all of us, and we all have a responsibility to protect them. Love Our New York Lands (https://www. dec.ny.gov/outdoor/119881. html) this spring by practicing responsible and sustainable outdoor recreation, Leave No TraceTM, and giving back through volunteer work and stewardship.

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Helen E. Brown September 5, 1932 - May 1, 2022 Helen E. Brown, 89, of Stottvile, passed away Sunday May 1, 2022 in Valatie, NY. Born September 5, 1932 in Hudson, NY, she is the daughter of Thomas and Helen (Conine) Brown.

Helen was a graduate of St. Mary’s Academy and Albany Business College. She worked as a secretary to the Director of Nursing at Columbia Memorial Hospital, also to the President of Columbia-Greene Community College, and at NYSDOT in Hudson, NY. Helen was a Communicant at the Church of St. Joseph in Stottville.

Helen is survived by several nieces and nephews. In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her siblings Bruce, Thomas, Arthur, and William Brown, and Mary (Brown) Bartolotta.

A visitation hour followed by funeral prayers will be Thursday May 12, 2022 from 12:00-1:00pm at the Bates & AndersonRedmond & Keeler Funeral Home. Interment will be in St. Mary’s Stuyvesant Falls Cemetery. A Memorial Mass scheduled at a later date will be announced.

James E. Peters James E. Peters, 64, of Redwood City, CA and formerly of Catskill died April 14, 2022. www.MillspaughCamerato.com. A graveside service will be conducted on Wednesday, May 11th at 12:30 at Gerald B.H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery.

Dylan Hilary Gryner February 7, 1994 - May 5, 2022 Dylan Hilary Gryner, 28, of Copake Lake, passed away peacefully on May 5, 2022. She was born on February 7, 1994 in Sharon, Connecticut. The daughter of Alexander and Patricia (Stevens) Gryner. Dylan was a 2012 graduate of Taconic Hills Central School, where she served on the student body and was on the girls soccer’s team, as “Lucky Number 7”. She had a sparkling personality, was outgoing, hardworking, and a friend to many. Some of her greatest joy in life came from being an aunt.

Dylan is survived by her parents; Alexander and Patricia Gryner, her siblings Ariel O’Neill, Aisha Mingot, Jordan Gryner, Rachel Gryner (David Warfield) and Emma Gryner (Fiancé, Gustavo da Costa). She is survived by adoring nieces and nephews,Addison, Jackson, Alayna, Marianna, Kyleigh, Brandon, and Arianna. In addition to several aunts, uncles, many cousins and numerous friends.

Family and friends are invited to offer condolences and share memories of Dylan on Tuesday, May 10, 2022 from 3:00 to 6:00pm at Peck & Peck Funeral Homes, 8063 Route 22, Copake, NY. To leave a message of condolence please visit www.peckandpeck.net

Irene J. Stewart February 11, 1935 - April 6, 2022 Irene J. Stewart, 87, of Jacksonville, FL, formerly of Maplecrest, NY, departed this life in the early morning hours of April 6, 2022. Her family, including her devoted husband Kenneth W. Stewart, was by her side as she passed peacefully into the arms of Jesus. Her passing leaves a great void in the lives of the many people who knew her.

Irene was predeceased by her parents Raymond and Augusta Grimes, her sister Louise Elting and her first husband, John Kinzelmann, married in 1953.

Irene was born on February 11, 1935, in Flushing, NY. She attended St. Ursula’s Catholic school and went on to get married and raise 11 children. Later in life, she spent time in sales and real estate. She was most known for her strong faith in God and serving in a variety of churches. Irene was a fervent prayer warrior and touched many lives for Jesus. She had a caring heart and loved sharing her faith with others.

Irene and her husband of 47 years, Kenneth, enjoyed spending winters in Naples, Florida. They were active in the church and the community there. Irene took many drives with “Stewart” and enjoyed visiting family and friends.

She is survived by her large and loving family including her Husband, Kenneth W. Stewart, her daughter, Kathleen (Michael) Chiappetta, Karen (Robert) O’Connell, Laura (David) Ryan, Susan (Thom) Murko, Gerard Kinzelmann, John (Gail) Kinzelmann, Lisa (Rich) Toellner, Amy (Dale) Baker, Lynette (Wayne) Bunce, Kenneth (Gretchen) Stewart, Kristine (Calvin) Ortiz and Laura (Late Kevin) Chase.

Irene had over 30 grandchildren, over 55 great grandchildren and 2 great-great grandchildren both welcomed this past December. There are countless friends she accumulated on her life journey. All will cherish her memory, her long conversations, her funny wit and her known eye brow raise.

A celebration of Irene’s life will be held in NY on Saturday, June 11, 2022, at 11:00 am at Living Faith Community Church in Maplecrest, NY by Pastor Jay Francis, a long time dear friend.

Gillibrand calls for investigation of 3 Supreme Court justices

By Ben Beagle ben@batavianews.com

U.S. Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand is calling for a congressional investigation of Supreme Court justices following the leaked draft of a majority decision from the court that indicated a decision was being considered that would overturn the Roe v. Wade decision.

The landmark 1973 court ruling, which has been challenged and upheld several times, established a constitutional right to abortion.

Gillibrand questioned the authenticity of statements made during Senate confirmation hearings for justices Amy Coney Barrett, Brett M. Kavanaugh and Neil M. Gorsuch — the most recently seated justices and reportedly among the five justices signing the draft decision.

Gillibrand accused the three justices of lying about their position on Roe v.

Wade.

“We need to set the record straight. If the justices truly lied under oath, we need to know,” Gillibrand said in a video press conference with reporters on Thursday afternoon.

“We cannot accept that Supreme Court justices can lie their way through the confirmation process,” she said.

Gorsuch and Kavanaugh said in their confirmation hearings in 2017 and 2018, respectively, that Roe v.

Wade was precedent, which in the Supreme Court is seldom overturned. Gorsuch called the Roe v. Wade

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In this March 23, 2022, file photo, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand meets with U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.

decision an “anchor of law,” while Kavanaugh said the decision was settled. Barrett, in her 2020 confirmation hearing, declined to take a position on Roe v.

Wade.

The draft was leaked to and reported on late Monday by Politico, a news organization that covers politics and policy. Initial reports could not confirm the authenticity of the draft. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. later confirmed the draft’s authenticity and called for an investigation into the leak.

The Supreme Court stressed that the draft does not represent a decision by the court or the final position of its justices.

Sometimes draft rulings can be revised in the final

months as justices weigh in during the writing process.

According to Politico, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote a draft in February that said the abortion ruling was “egregiously wrong” and should be overturned completely. The draft was also signed, according to Politico, by Justice Clarence Thomas, who has said for years that Roe should be overturned, and Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett, the latter three appointees of President Donald Trump.

The draft’s opinion, Gillibrand said, shows “how politicized the court has become.”

“We must find ways to depoliticize the court,” she said.

Gillibrand said the investigation should be

At least 8 dead after explosion rips through five-star Hotel Saratoga Nora Gamez Torres Miami Herald

At least eight people were killed Friday in an explosion that destroyed much of the Hotel Saratoga, a luxury hotel in the historic center of Havana, Cuban authorities said.

The President’s Office said on Twitter that at least eight people were dead and another “30 or so” were injured and receiving medical attention.

Preliminary investigations point to a gas leak, and search and rescue efforts were ongoing, the Office

said. The Office’s Twitter account also shared images of Cuban leader Miguel Diaz-Canel and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero at the scene.

Images and videos show extensive damage to several floors, but the building was still standing. Two floors lost walls and windows, and a store on the ground floor was reduced to rubble. The explosion happened around 11 a.m., independent news 14ymedio reported.

Cuban officials said the hotel was undergoing repairs after it closed during

the pandemic. It is unclear if it was open for tourists.

With eclectic architecture and just steps from Central Park and the Capitol, the 19th-century building was restored and reopened as a five-star luxury hotel in 2005. Several Cuban-Americans and figures from the business world stayed there when they accompanied President Barack Obama on his visit to Cuba in 2016.

Several videos show dozens of people walking around, as well as members of the police and the fire department.

Black Americans see unemployment rate drop in robust job market Catarina Saraiva Bloomberg

The U.S. labor market showed improvements for Black and Hispanic workers in April and especially for Black women, who have remained out of the workforce by some of the widest margins during the pandemic.

The Black unemployment rate fell for a fourth straight month, dropping to 5.9% from 6.2% in March and shrinking the gap between White and Black joblessness to 2.7 percentage points.

The White unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.2% last month, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Friday.

Hispanic joblessness among people over 16 also fell -- to 4.1% from 4.2%.

That’s a sharp improvement from the onset of the

pandemic, when Latino Americans suffered the biggest blow from business shutdowns, sending their rate of unemployment up as high as 18.8%.

Policymakers including at the Federal Reserve have been monitoring how different groups of Americans fare in the economic recovery from the pandemic.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell has said he wants the current expansion to be long lasting, much like the one before the start of the Covid-19 crisis. He has referenced the positive outcomes in the couple of years that preceded the pandemic, including the lowest unemployment rate on record for Black Americans, and has said he wants the economy to return to those conditions.

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Black women over 16 saw unemployment decline by an entire percentage point in April, to 5.2%. The drop was in part driven by those who exited the workforce, mirroring a trend seen with nearly all workers last month except Black men.

The portion of Black men who are either looking for a job or employed reached 65.8% in April, a four-year high, though that ratio still remains far below that of White and Hispanic men.

Black and Hispanic women remain among the groups most on the sidelines of the labor market, with employment as a share of the population down the most since before the pandemic, compared with other Americans.

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conducted by the House of Representatives. She said it would be up to the House to decide if the Supreme Court justices would be called on to testify, and then up to the justices to do so.

“At some point I hope we have hearings because I don’t know how you can accept Supreme Court justices who lied in order to be confirmed,” Gillibrand said.

“That is absolutely fraud and there should be consequences.”

Gillibrand, immediately after the content of the leaked draft was reported, called on Congress to pass a law allowing the right to an abortion. She also called on states to enact strong prochoice legislation.

Tribune News Service contributed to this story.

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TREASURE & TRIFLE SALE CHATHAM — St. James Parish, 129 Hudson Ave., Chatham, Treasure & Trifle sale will be held 9 a.m.-3 p.m. May 7 in the basement. This sale is to benefit a community in Haiti.

CONCERT CATSKILL — The Catskill Glee Club will present their annual Spring Concert “A Night on Broadway!” at 7:30 p.m.

May 7 at the First Reformed Church, 310 Main St., Catskill.

The 25-voice all male chorus will be directed by Michael Wright and accompanied by Lisa D’Arcangelis. The guest artist will be Michael Benedict Jazz Vibes. Suggested offering is $10 at the door. Information can be found at www.CatskillGleeClub.org.

LIFE IN THE SPIRIT SEMINAR GUILDERLAND — The Catholic Charismatic Renewal announces ”Life in the Spirit” seminar to be held 8:30 a.m.2:30 p.m. May 7; 6-9 p.m. May 20 and 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. May 21 at Christ the King Church, Guilderland. Pre-registration is necessary by going to WWW. AlbanyCCR.org. For information, email infor.dsc.albany@ gmail.com.

GARAGE SALE FUNDRAISER EAST BERNE — Helderberg Christian School, 96 Main St., East Berne, will be hosting a garage sale fundraiser 8 a.m.3 p.m. May 7. For information, email hcslibraryfund@yahoo. com.

SPRING RUMMAGE SALE CATSKILL — The First Reformed Church of Catskill, 310 Main St., Catskill, will be holding their Spring Rummage Sale 9 a.m.-5 p.m. May 13 and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. May 14. On Saturday items will be sold for $4 a bag.

VENDOR CRAFT FAIR SOUTH BETHLEHEM — The South Bethlehem United Methodist Church, 65 Willowbrook Ave., South Bethlehem, will hold a Vendor Craft Fair 9 a.m.-2 p.m. May 14. Breakfast and lunch will be available plus a bake sale to support the church’s United Methodist Women. The Thrift Shop ‘Boutique’ will be open as well.

Contact Emily Shutter at 518813-0661 for further information.

CHICKEN BARBECUE

CATSKILL — A Frese’s Chicken Barbecue will be served 3-6 p.m. May 19 take out only in the parking lot of St. Patrick’s, 66 William St. Catskill. Tickets are $14. For reservations, call 518-9435235.

ATHENS — The First Reformed Church, 18 North Church St., Athens, will serve a Frese’s Chicken Barbecue noon-1 p.m. June 5, take out only. The cost is $15. Tickets need to be purchased by May 28 and they may be purchased from any Church member or by calling 518-945-1801 to leave a message.

BAKE AND RUMMAGE SALE COXSACKIE — The First Reformed Church of Coxsackie, 285 Mansion St., Coxsackie, bake sale and rummage sale will be held 9 a.m.-1 p.m. May 21.

ROAST PORK DINNER COEYMANS HOLLOW — Trinity United Methodist Church, 1313 Route 143, Coeymans Hollow, will serve a roast pork dinner 4-6 p.m. June 8, take out only. The menu includes roast pork, dressing, potatoes, gravy, vegetable, applesauce, roll and pie. Adults, $14; children, $56.

FIRST REFORMED CHURCH OF ATHENS ATHENS — First Reformed Church of Athens, 18 North Church St., Athens, worships at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Communion is celebrate the first Sunday of each month. Senior Choir rehearsal is at 6:30 p.m. each Wednesday. We ask that you be vaccinated if you would like to join us. Hudson River Bells will resume rehearsals in the Fall. For information, call the church at 518-945-1801.

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

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

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

All are welcome. Communion is celebrated the first Sunday of each month. Sunday School is available during the worship service time. Free Food

Fridays provide a meal for anyone at 6 p.m. on the third Friday of each month; www. firstreformecoxsackie.com.

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

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

EMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH

Holy Communion in person at 8 and 10 a.m. Sundays.

Face masks and distancing required regardless of vaccination status. For information and news, www.saintpaulskinderhook.org/ or follow us on Facebook. Subscribe to our newsletter: http://eepurl. com/cG4YSv; 518-758-6271 or saintpaulskinderhook@gmail. com. Office open 1:30-4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday and by appointment.

KINDERHOOK REFORMED

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

www.facebook.com/KinderhookReformedChurch. For information, call 518-7586401 or kinderhookreformedchurch.com.

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

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

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

Sunday. Communion is celebrated on the first Sunday of every month with Pastor Stan Webster. Child care is offered during the service and Sunday school after the service ends.

Easter Sunday at 9:30 a.m. For information, call the Church office at 518-828-9514.

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

Sunday School is at 9 a.m. for children 3 and older. Face masks are optional if you are more comfortable wearing one, please do so. Social distancing is still in effect. The live broadcasts are on www. facebook.com/St-Johns-Lutheran.

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

Sundays in person and online. Masks are optional. Live broadcast on Facebook.com/ ChristChurchEpiscopalHudson, or christchurchepiscopalhudson.org. Midweek Eucharist at 12:15 p.m.

Wednesdays in the church, join us for a quiet and uplifting service with anointing and prayers. Office hours and Emergency Food Shelf 9 a.m.-noon weekdays. For information, call 518-828-1329 or email christchurch1802@ gmail.com.

SAINT PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH KINDERHOOK — St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 8 Sylvester St., Kinderhook,

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New Baltimore Reformed Church

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

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

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

Rev. Rick L. Behan, Pastor

Fr. Joseph O’Brien, Parochial Vicar

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

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

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

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

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

You Are Welcome Here!

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

All Are Welcome!

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

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

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

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

You Are Welcome Here!

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Clermont State Historic Site master plan development public outreach workshop scheduled GERMANTOWN - The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP) is developing a Master Plan and Environmental Impact Statement (MP/ EIS) for Clermont State Historic Site, located in the Town of Germantown, Columbia County. Interested parties will have the opportunity to contribute to the master planning process during an online public workshop to be held at 5:30 p.m. May 12.

During the virtual workshop, OPRHP staff will provide a brief overview of OPRHP’s Master Plan development process, and participants will have an opportunity to discuss

their ideas and experiences at Clermont. Free registration in advance of the online meeting is required in order to attend.

To participate you may e-mail Clermont.plan@parks.ny.gov, or register at https://forms.office.com/g/5pRsULfa0U, no later than 3 p.m. May 12.

OPRHP encourages interested parties to attend this online workshop and welcomes all input. If you are unable to participate, the workshop will be recorded and made publicly available on the OPRHP website. In addition, questions or comments may be submitted until May 20 to: Clermont.Plan@parks.ny.gov or mailed to: Tana Bigelow,

Park Planner, Division of Environmental Stewardship and Planning, NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, 625 Broadway Albany, NY 12207.

The meeting is accessible to people with disabilities. Anyone who requires a reasonable accommodation for effective communications should contact Owen Gilbo at owen. gilbo@parks.ny.gov or at 518402-2648 as soon as possible, but no later than 48 hours before the scheduled event.

If you have any questions, contact Linda Cooper, Regional Director for the Taconic Region at Linda.Cooper@ parks.ny.gov.

New Windsor Cantonment presents Brigade of the American Revolution May 14 and May 15 NEW WINDSOR — The Brigade of the American Revolution returns to the New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site May 14 and May 15. The camps are open to the public 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and a battle demonstration takes place at 2 p.m. each day with colorfully uniformed soldiers firing muskets and maneuvering to the music of fifes and drums. For more information, call 845-562-7141 ext. 22. Admission is free. The New Windsor Cantonment is co-located with the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, 374 Temple Hill Road, in the Town of New Windsor.

The remarkable variety of dress worn by participants provides a living window to the past. Green-coated Loyalists, Germans in blue, collectively called Hessians and British regulars in red, some

of whom are grenadiers, resplendent in their bearskin caps, standing ready to defend the interests of the King and Parliament. Among the Patriot forces, you will find not only Continentals, like the Light Infantry, dressed in blue coats as they would have been at the Battle of Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781, but also regiments in gray, brown or whatever color happened to be available at the time.

Visitors will also see women and children, the family members of the soldiers who traveled with the army.

Members of the Brigade of the American Revolution use this weekend to teach the latest knowledge in recreating life from that era. The presentations are an enjoyable experience, something to be long remembered. Through lectures and demonstrations,

a wide variety of 18th century period life is revealed. New Windsor Cantonment site staff is present to do musket firings and presentations on military medicine throughout the weekend. The exhibit galleries provide a nice overview of 18th century artillery and life at the New Windsor Cantonment.

New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site is one of 35 historic sites within the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation and one of 40 facilities administered by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission in New York and New Jersey. For information, call 845-562-7141, visit the New York State Parks website at: https://parks.ny.gov or find us on Facebook at: www. facebook.com/newwindsorcantonment.

Lunar eclipse star party at Grafton Lakes State Park May 15 GRAFTON — Grafton Lakes State Park in partnership with the Albany Area Amateur Astronomers (AAAA) is hosting a special Lunar Eclipse Star Party 10 p.m.-2 a.m. May 15.

Totality of the eclipse will start at 11:29 p.m. with maximum totality occurring at 12:11 a.m.

The last time a Lunar Eclipse was viewable in New York was in January 2019.

The event will be held at Grafton Lakes State Park Deerfield Pavilion. The AAAA will be bringing telescopes and will be talking about the science behind a lunar eclipse.

This event is free of charge and open to all. Bring lots of layers, coffee, snacks and a blanket to enjoy the show. Poor weather conditions may cancel this event. Check Facebook for

updates. This event will also kick off star parties for the coming summer which will be held once a month at Grafton Lakes State Park.

Star parties for the rest of the year will be held on Fridays with rain dates on Saturdays on June 24, July 26, Aug. 26, Sept. 23 and Oct. 21.

No pre-registration required.

Registration is open for the 2022 Wreaths Across America Stem to Stone races COLUMBIA FALLS, Maine — Wreaths Across America (WAA) announces that registration is open for its annual Stem to Stone Races which are scheduled for Aug. 6.

A live, in-person event will take place in Columbia Falls, Maine, on the tip lands where balsam is grown and harvested each year to make the veterans’ wreaths that are then placed on the headstones of our nation’s heroes for Wreaths Across America Day. Participants can also join in on the fun from anywhere utilizing one of the many virtual options. Go to https:// runsignup.com/Race/ME/ ColumbiaFalls for information.

These races serve to help further community awareness and understanding of WAA’s year-long mission to Remember the fallen Race options: 1 Mile Kids Fun Run (Inperson only) $15 registration through May 31 $20 registration from June

1 through Aug. 6 5K In-person $30 registration through May 31; $35 registration June 1 through Aug. 6.

5K Virtual $35 registration through May 31 $40 registration from June 1 through Aug. 6 10K In-person $40 registration through May 31 $45 registration June 1 through Aug. 6 10K Virtual $45 registration through May 31 $50 registration June 1 through Aug. 6

Every race registration sponsors a fresh balsam veteran’s wreath for placement on National Wreaths Across America Day Dec. 17.

Eddies Music Hall of Fame to induct eight Capital Region legends on June 7 SARATOGA SPRINGS The Capital Region Thomas Edison Music Hall of Fame has announced its 2022 class featuring eight legends of the local music scene. The group will be inducted during an induction ceremony at 6 p.m.

June 7 at Universal Preservation Hall, home of the Eddies Music Hall of Fame.

Joining 16 individuals and groups inducted since the Hall’s founding in 2019 are ambient music artist Sara Ayers; music promoter Greg Bell; the late Brooks Brown, founder of independent radio station WEQX; Michael Eck, a solo artist, member of several musical acts, a producer and music critic; the late Greg Haymes, founder of the publication Nippertown and lead vocalist of the Eddies Music Hall of Fame band Blotto; Grammy- and Academy Award-winning music producer Joel Moss; solo artist Rich Ortiz; and the Troy rock trio Super 400.

“This class truly represents the breadth of the region’s music scene,” said Eddies Music Hall of Fame founder Jim Murphy. “In artists we have everything from roots to rock to ambient music and on the industry side, a muchheralded music producer, two journalists, a radio station founder, and a promoter. Several of these individuals plied more than one trade within the music business.”

The announcement comes on the heels of the 4th annual Eddies Music Awards, held April 24 at Proctors. Bell’s firm Guthrie/Bell Productions, Eck’s band Lost Radio Rounders, and WEQX were 2022 nominees; Ortiz, Nippertown and Super 400 were 2022 award recipients; and Super 400 and Ortiz also performed this year. Also, Moss is active professionally at Caffe Lena in Saratoga, which was yet another 2022 Eddies Music Award winner.

“This group has many things going for it professionally but first and foremost is staying power,” Murphy said.

“All the living are two, three, four or more decades into their career and just as relevant as ever. And our two inductees who are no longer with us, the organizations they left behind remain vital to fans of today’s local music scene.”

The ceremony will feature live music, presentation of a brief video about each artist, and acceptance speeches. A bronze plaque is placed on the Hall of Fame wall at UPH for each inductee, and a video about each inductee will play there in a loop with past, present, and future recipients.

“It’s an emotional evening,” said Murphy. “There is great storytelling and so much appreciation and love. You don’t have to have any relationship to these individuals to come away feeling blessed to hear their stories and experience the atmosphere in the room.”

The 2022 class joins a group of 16 previous inductees that

includes folk/Celtic artist Kevin McKrell, 1930s and ‘40s pop music sensations Bob and Ray Eberle, and John Sykes, cofounder of MTV and current chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, among many others.

The Eddies Music Hall of Fame honors Capital District residents who have made outstanding contributions to, or significant impact on the evolution, development, and perpetuation of the music industry. These contributions can be national, regional, or local.

Nominees must have been born in the Capital Region and/or have lived here and/ or worked here professionally. As a rule, nominees must have been active in the music industry for a minimum of 20 years. Exceptions are made in the case of a candidate’s premature death or due to outstanding service or special circumstances.

Tickets are $50 and now on sale at universalpreservationhall.org; admission includes complimentary hors d’oeuvres. More information on the Eddies Hall of Fame at theeddiesawards.com The 2022 Capital Region Thomas Edison Music Hall of Fame nominees Sara Ayers Vocalist-composer Sara Ayers’ richly textured songs and sonic atmospheres ebb and flow from delicate and luminous lullabies to wall-ofsound banshee wails. “The songs I write are my way of examining and making sense of the world,” she says. The ambient artist has released eight works, appeared on more than a dozen compilations, and collaborated on more than a dozen recordings with other artists. Ayers husband Greg Haymes launched the online publication Nippertown in 2009.

Greg Bell With a partner, Greg Bell organized two Albany shows in the spring of 1992, kicking off a music promotion career that continues today. The Long Island native joined forces with Jeff Guthrie in 1993, forming Guthrie/Bell Productions; Guthrie left within a few years, but Bell continued with the name with “a nice ring to it.”

His impact on Albany’s music scene is considerable; he has produced more than 2,500 shows and established the city as a major jam band tour stop.

Music promotion was one of two careers; he also taught special education for 26 years.

Brooks Brown Houston-native Brooks Brown moved to Manchester, VT in the late 1970s and began planning a station when he discovered the city lacked one.

The 50,000-watt signal emanating from Equinox Mountain has broadcast new music to southern Vermont, New Hampshire, western Massachusetts and New York’s Capital Region since WEQX launched in November 1984.

Brooks passed away in August 2013.

Michael Eck Albany’s Michael Eck has led many musical lives—performing songwriter; roots scholar; multi-instrumentalist working with Aimee Mann, Pete Seeger, Patti Smith and 10,000 Maniacs; serial band member, from the punk of The Plague to the folk of Ramblin Jug Stompers and Lost Radio Rounders; nationally recognized cultural critic and guitar brand editor; concert/radio/ album producer; Caffe Lena board member; publicist; painter; bouncer; roadie; record store clerk and more.

Joel Moss A record producer, sound engineer and mixer, Joel Moss has been behind the boards on works by Little Richard, Ray Charles, The Beach Boys, Elton John, Johnny Cash and Tony Bennett, among many others. He engineered sound for over 200 movies and helped produce many Broadway cast albums. He is the recipient of an Academy Award, seven Grammys and two Emmy nominations. A 12-year-old Detroit folk prodigy in the late 1950s, he led the Hebrew folk quintet The Hi-Liters that played Caffe Lena in the early ’60s. He moved to Saratoga in 2002 and today is a broadcast sound and camera technician at Lena.

Greg Haymes Greg Haymes was the front man and percussionist in 2020 Eddies Music Hall of Fame inductee Blotto and was a member of The Star Spangled Washboard Band and the Ramblin Jug Stompers. He also covered music extensively as a newspaper journalist, and with his wife Sara Ayers launched the online publication Nippertown in 2009. The Buffalo native was also an accomplished visual artist. He passed away in April 2019.

Rich Ortiz Rich Ortiz comes from a musical family; his father, Steve Jr. signed a record contract at age 21; other musicians in the extended family were featured in a 1971 PBS documentary. His is an acoustic solo act, playing six- and twelve-string guitar, harmonica, and pedal bass, while turning heads with dynamic vocals. He has released two albums and opened for Chicago, REO Speedwagon, Jeffrey Gaines, and others.

When not performing, Ortiz is competing professionally in fishing tournaments.

Super 400 Drummer Joe Daley, guitarist Kenny Hohman and bassist Lori Friday formed the Troy-based trio in 1996.

Their self-titled debut was released on Island Records two years later and the band has since released five albums independently. They have widely toured in the U.S. and overseas; Troy’s mayor declared February 25 as ’Super 400 Day’. Hohman and Friday are married; they opened Troy Music Academy in 2011 and have scored music for many TV shows.

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Clark Art Institute announces research and program fellowships for 2022-2023 WILLIAMSTOWN, Massachusetts — The Clark Art Institute’s Research and Academic Program (RAP) announces the appointment of its 2022–2023 class of fellows for the upcoming academic year.

The Clark is one of a small number of institutions globally that is both an art museum and a center for research, critical discussion, and higher education in the visual arts. Through RAP, the Clark hosts a residential fellowship program that welcomes top international scholars for periods ranging from two to nine months. To date, the community of Clark Fellows numbers more than 400 individuals hailing from thirty countries, forming a global network of scholars united through the shared experience of academic pursuits undertaken on the Clark’s Williamstown campus.

While in residency at the Clark, fellows pursue independent research projects that span a wide variety of topics and pursuits, including writing, conceptualizing exhibitions, and studying emerging trends and issues in art history. In the past two years, RAP has introduced two new fellowships to support innovative and necessary scholarship in art history, including a fellowship in Caribbean Art and its Diasporas and a fellowship in Critical Race Theory and Visual Practice. Fall and Summer Fellows present a free public lecture related to their work during their tenure at the Clark.

The Clark’s library collection— recognized as one of the leading art history libraries in the United States—serves as a central resource for researchers. Scholars live in apartments in a house close to the Clark’s campus, providing a collegial environment that fosters collaboration, ongoing dialogue, and exchange of ideas.

In this year’s cycle, the Clark initiates a new fellowship sponsored by The Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation (KADF). The foundation is a feminist nonprofit organization dedicated to being a resource and strategic partner for social and environmental justice by protecting and advocating for women and girls for the purpose of advancing

diversity, equity, and inclusion in the arts and sciences. The Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation Fellowship at the Clark supports projects that radically advance feminist perspectives and equal representation in the canon of art history. The first fellowship begins in January 2023.

“We are thrilled to have the support of The Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation to foster systemic change in art history, in particular, through focusing on projects and scholars that advance feminist agendas,” said Caroline Fowler, Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program.

“The work that The Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation is undertaking is critical for creating a more equitable art history.”

Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director of the Clark, noted that “It is an honor to work with The Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation to imagine new futures for art history and to break the glass ceiling that perpetuates inequalities in the arts despite years of activism. Through this fellowship, the foundation offers the possibility of real change in art history.”

Fellowships for the 2022– 2023 academic year are awarded to: Short-term Clark Fellow: Olivier Bonfait, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France (Fall 2022) “From Rubens to Richter,” Bonfait’s project traces a history of the large-format painting as a visual organism, considering its important role in the formation of modern state nations, and the artistic challenges it constitutes to both painters and viewers.

Short-term Beinecke Fellow: Bridget Cooks, University of California, Irvine (Spring 2023) In her project “Covers: Popular Art and Racial Black Thought” Cooks analyzes visual images used on the covers of jazz albums and Black-authored fiction whose sonic and literary contents address the need for racial equality. These objects express what poet/critical theorist Fred Moten calls a “freedom drive,” that emerges from the “political, economic, and sexual objection of the radical materiality and syntax that animates black performances.”

The images at the core of this project express the tension between enslavement and a concomitant freedom drive that is the condition of Black being.

Clark/Oakley Humanities Fellow: Jonathan Flatley, Wayne State University, Detroit (Fall 2022/Spring 2023) “Like Trees” is a book project about liking and being like trees. Spanning distinct media, genres, and national traditions, it constructs an arboreal counter-archive of images and texts addressing the similarities between humans and trees. It is a “counter-archive” because the open-ended, affirmative, noninstrumental affective attachment to trees we find in it offers a clear alternative to the dominant Christian, capitalist view in which trees are under human “dominion,” there for our “use.”

Clark Class of 1974 Fellow: Turry Flucker, Tougaloo College Art Collection, Jackson, Mississippi (Spring 2023) In the spring of 1963, the New York Art Committee for Tougaloo College (conceived by art critic and art historian Dore Ashton) established Mississippi’s first collection of modern art at Tougaloo, a historically Black liberal arts college located north of Jackson. As civil rights protests swirled across the fiercely segregated state, the College became an unlikely hub of European and New York School modernism and a place that the collection’s founders envisioned as “an interracial oasis in which the fine arts are the focus and magnet.” While in residence at the Clark, Flucker’s research examines the interconnection between the Tougaloo College Art Collection, the New York School, the Civil Rights Movement of 1960–1969, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Caribbean Art and its Diasporas Fellow: Donette Francis, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida (Summer 2022) Miami is a refugee city par excellence where 93% of the current foreign-born population are from the Caribbean and Latin America. Art produced by Miami-placed Caribbean artists addresses the intimate scale of the city’s unique hemispheric

orientation and its uneven racialized immigrant incorporation. This project theorizes Caribbean aesthetic practices of “Black refugee time” that situate the US in relation to the region, and account for differences in gender, generation, and linguistic repertoires Florence Gould Foundation Fellow: Margaret Graves, Indiana University, Bloomington (Fall 2022/Spring 2023) “Invisible Hands: Islamic Ceramic and the Colonial Art Market,” is a book project that looks at the practice of creating fakes and forgeries and reconsiders the objects that result as skilled crafts. Usually portrayed as dying out in the nineteenth century, Middle Eastern craft skills were, in fact, redirected towards a new market generated by the colonial project: the faking, forging, and fictionalizing of antiquities, especially ceramics.

By recognizing faking and forgery on the market for Middle Eastern ceramics as skilled forms of craft and as sites of Indigenous participation in global capitalism, this book reveals the challenges that colonial modernity presents to the discipline of art history, via the objects that moved through it and were remade in its image.

Beinecke Fellow: Kathryn Howley, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York City (Spring 2023) The book project “The Bodily Aesthetics of Ancient Egyptian Art” argues that the proliferation of bodies in ancient Egyptian imagery was central to its function upon its audience.

Egyptian art was corporeal not just in its many representations of the human body but in the way that it consciously appealed to the senses, engaging the body of the viewer in response. Scholars’ own bodily understandings have, however, led to the reproduction of the modern body politics of racist, sexist, and colonial thought in Egyptian art’s interpretation.

Futures Fellow: Tsedaye Makonnen, visual artist, Washington, D.C. (Fall 2022) Research performance art confronts the effects of systemic forms of oppression on migration. Finding more narratives

and visual accounts of displacements conveyed through performance, Makonnen asks: “How do performance artists contribute to awakening empathy towards marginalized people?” Since there is a current re-enactment of humans as cargo at the United StatesMexican border and in the Mediterranean region, Makonnen challenges audiences to examine how performance art can challenge how whiteness, colonialism, and hierarchies are contributing to this present conundrum.

Michael Ann Holly Fellow: Jeremy Melius, University of Oxford, England (Fall 2022) Melius is developing a project on the Victorian critic John Ruskin and his fraught relationship with the discipline of art history, bringing into focus what remains living in Ruskin’s thought and what historical models it still offers. Investigating the nature of Ruskin’s descriptive attachments to key sites and artifacts, the project disinters the novel forms of history that he found there, as they emerged at the volatile interface between observer and observed.

Short-term Clark Fellow: Marta Ruiz del Árbol, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (Fall 2022) “Gabriele Münter: A painter with a Photographic Gaze” is a research project linked to the first exhibition on the artist to be held in Spain (planned for summer 2023 at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid). The exhibition analyzes amateur photographs Münter took during a two-year journey through the United States around the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century as her first means of artistic expression and the origin and source of her practice.

Critical Race Theory and Visual Culture Fellow: Shawn Michelle Smith, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (Fall 2022/Spring 2023) The book project “Environmental Double Consciousness” approaches environmental catastrophe through the lens of critical race studies. Inspired by Rob Nixon’s concept

“environmental double-consciousness,” the project investigates the intersecting crises that have come so sharply into focus in recent years, namely climate change and anti-Black racism, through an interpretation of contemporary artworks that largely decenter a human point of view. In concert with the works it studies, the project seeks an answer to the query: “Can one decenter a human point of view but still keep the violent histories of empire and slavery in sight? The aim of the project is to bring the lens of critical race studies more fully into view in discussions of the environment, and to demonstrate how art can shift one’s orientation to, and understanding of, a planet in crisis.

The Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation Fellow: Shundana Yusaf, University of Utah, Salt Lake City (Spring 2023) Inaugural KADF fellow Shundana Yusaf’s project “The Resonant Tomb: A Feminist History of Sufi Shrines in Pakistan from Medieval to Postmodern Period” explores the role of women in the history of Sufi shrines and the role of Sufi shrines in the history of women through nine case studies in the two provinces of Punjab and Sindh in Pakistan. The project triangulates material culture, sensory studies, and women’s histories, yielding the terms on which successive generations of women have bent the logic of this building typology to serve as the space of their self-production and narration. Yusaf’s project makes audible, from within monuments to great men, the auditory and spatial agency of women, consuming and reproducing space through sensory engagement.

Support from the Center for Spain in America, the Florence Gould Foundation, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, The Manton Foundation, Prospect Hill Foundation, The Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation, and the Sperry Fund help to underwrite fellowships in RAP. For more information, visit clarkart.edu/rap.

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New York Naval Militia boat christened in Catskill ceremony

FORTNIGHTLY CLUB OF CATSKILL ACCEPTS DONATIONS FOR FESTIVAL

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Natasha Witka owner of the New York Restaurant and Century 21 West Properties, contributed $500 from each of her businesses as a sponsor for the Rip Van Winkle Wine, Brew & Beverage Festival scheduled today. The Fortnightly Club of Catskill is appreciative of Witka’s continued support.

Coxsackie-Athens Middle School third quarter honor roll for the 2021-2022 school year COXSACKIE — CoxsackieAthens Middle School announces the honor roll for the third quarter for the 2021-2022 school year.

GRADE 8 High Honor Roll: Tatiana Agosto-Velazquez, Georgia Banik, Abbiegail Bannen, Isabella Bushane, Olivia Campbell, Tristan Canning, Violet Charniga, Landen Clark, Sophia Collier, Kevin Cortez, Jasa Cruz, Sophia Curik, Cameron Daoust, Asa Decker, Danielle Deering, Zadock Favicchio, Carla Flach, Hailey Gibney, Travis Hambley, Charizma Harrington, Keegan Hazelton, Rhoderick Herdman, Claire Hubert, Bryan Jackson, Gabriella Jollie, Brooke Kelly, Meloney Komaromi, Jayden Krajewski, Collin Kreplin, Hannah Lauria, Gavin Macie, Matthias Mallia, Myla Meacher, Nathan Rausch, Ethan Ravenscroft, Logan Richards, Angel Rivera, Liam Ross, Christopher Salvino, Camryn Slater, Payton Slater, Isabella Wagner, James Warren III. Honor Roll: Logan Cary, Abby Farwell, Matthew Gunderson, Claire Hellen, Amari June, Richard Perino, Eamonn Tighe, Jenna Vermilyea-Butterworth, Henry West.

GRADE 7 High Honor Roll: Kenley Adamo, Onix Agosto Collazo Jr., Skye Anatriello, Jadelynn Anderson, Athena Beers, Taylor Bower, Brook Carver, Avery Conrad, Daniel Crimmins,

Michael Deering, Madison DeRose, Kaden Earle, Katelyn Feldle-Jackson, Wyatt Ferrier, Cameron Fischer, Kendall Frisbee, Nico Galante, Joseph Garland V, Grace Graff, Jacob Grounds, Lexi Haas, Charlotte Hans, Sebastian Harman, Matthew Higgins, Nathaniel Hodor, Kendall Hoffman, Benjamin Hoglund, Sierra Kohler, Ava Krstovich, Madelyn Lackie, Madison Legg, Brenna Lu, Florence Martin, Eli Maurer, Cassandra McCoy, Zachary Millett, Mackensie Moore, Lyric O'Connor, Landon Portu, Ethan Presto, Anna Purdy, Charles Riley, Mikayla Riley, Emma Roberg, Elizabeth Rodgers, Kiernan Russo, Christian Serey, Logan Snyder, Michael Styga, Camerin Taylor, Cameron VanAlphen, Reese Vizzie.

Honor Roll: Mathieu Craver, Julian Muscatello, Noah Rulison, Kaleb Slater.

GRADE 6 High Honor Roll: Alessandro Agovino, Riley Blum, Arabella Brooks, Fernando Cancel, Robert Carl, Bryce Cole, Molly Cooper, Quinn Corrigan, Aiden Cramer, Matthew Deering, Thomas Forschner, Rylee Gardner, Samantha Hagen, Priamos Liapis, Owen Lu, Maeve Marano, Adrianna Marino, Weston Martin, Collin McIlroy, Nury Melara Marroquin, Elliott Mercer-Whipple, Bryce Meredith, Ethan Miller, Nicole Multari, Roman Multari, Elias Ouzi, Evelyn Parde, Robert Pautz, Stella Phoenix, Noah Rausch, Brody Robinson, Shylah

Rodriguez, Avery Saxton, Kyle Scott, Parker Seaburg, Hudson Seekamp, Keely Stewart, Jason Tanaka, Yulie Tovar, Liley Vandenburgh, Leah Walker, Jason Wiley, Noah Woodard.

Honor Roll: Aiden Bannen, Noah Bellerose, Gabriel Carcamo, Lugh Flach, Annabelle Hagen, Graidyn Miller, Emma Schyljuk.

GRADE 5 High Honor Roll: Marisa Ames, Noel Banik, Madelyn Biel, Sophia Bink, Rowan Braine, Logan Brush, Alfonso Chiong Jr., Cayden Collins, Crew Cox, Madison Eldred, Mariana Freitas, Ethan Gunderson, Gwenyth Harford, Lyda Herdman, Ronin Hill, Caleb Hoffman, Sienna Jenes, Kaidyn Jollie, Olivia Krstovich, Stella Lambert, Emma Lambert, Logan Leonardo, Lucas Liapis, Felix Lynch, Aryana McCoy, Liam Meagher, Hudson Meier, Antonio Multari, Kaden Patterson, Reagan Pielli, Lydia Pieruzzi, Erik Roberg, Claire Roberg, John Rodgers, Addison Ross, Torrin Russo, Alyssa Scalera, Drake Schwebler, Lissa Searles, Avery Shutter, Emma Slater, Alexa Smith, Gracie Styga, Madilynn VanAlphen, Blake VanSchaack, Isla Vizzie, Zef Yannone.

Honor Roll: Logan Benson, Jaiden Disbrow, Braden Gunderson, Kaylin Hans, Emma Hills, Braydon Kohler, Connor Lennon, Edward Mayo, Clark Seeley Jr., Garrett Sitcer, River Sorozan, Tyler Wood, Dakota Yutesler

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The crew of the New York Naval Militia’s latest landing craft, LC-351, form up in front of the boat during a christening ceremony at Historic Catskill Point, Catskill.

CATSKILL — New York’s naval force officiall welcomed the newest addition to its fleet of patrol boats with a ceremony at Historic Catskill Point on the Hudson River in Catskill on April 30.

A 35-foot landing craft-style boat built by the Munson Boat company of Burlington, Washington was christened LC-351 at Historic Catskill Point Park by Patricia Weill, the wife of Rear Admiral Lawrence Weill, the commander of the 2,700-member New York Naval Militia.

Major General Ray Shields, the Adjutant General of New York, who oversees the New York Army and Air National Guard as well as the Naval Militia, also participated in the ceremony.

LC-351 is 39 feet long and powered by two Mercury Optimax 250 horsepower outboard engines which can drive it to a top speed of 41 miles per hour. The boat has the ability to carry three tons of supplies, 27 people, or a small vehicle and additional supplies and put that equipment ashore.

The boat cost $321,983 which was paid for by a federal maritime security grant.New York purchased an identical craft-LC-350-- from Munson in 2018.

The New York Naval Militia, with a strength of 2,779, is the largest of the six state naval forces and was created in 1891 as the seagoing equivalent of the New York National Guard in the days before the creation of the Navy Reserve.

Today the force is composed mostly of members of the Navy, Marine Corps and

Coast Guard Reserve who agree to serve in the state force while simultaneously serving in their federal reserve capacity.

Naval Militia members go on state active duty to put their military skills to work for the people of New York. They have responded to snowstorms, hurricanes and most recently the COVID-19 pandemic where they assisted at vaccination sites and logistics hubs.

The Naval Militia’s Military Emergency Boat Service operates a fleet of 11 watercraft, now including LC-351, which can be used for maritime patrol. One boat, PB-440, works regularly with the United States Coast Guard in New York harbor.

The ceremony was marked by the traditional breaking of a bottle of spirits on the bow of the boat and the three -man crew were then instructed to bring LC-351 to life by Shields.

In his remarks Shields praised the Naval Militia for their service during the pandemic and other New York emergencies.

“Landing Craft 351 adds a huge capability to transport people and equipment to our state’s naval arsenal,” Shields said.

Marcos Soler, New York’s Deputy Secretary for Public Safety represented Gov. Kathy Hochul at the christening.

The first landing craft was purchased, because Naval Militia patrol boats were used for emergency supply operations on Long Island following Superstorm Sandy in 2012. While the boats were effective, it was

determined that a boat specifically configured to more cargo would be more useful.

New York has 2,625 miles of Atlantic Ocean and Great Lakes coastline. The Erie Canal and other components of New York’s canal system is 514 miles long, the Hudson River is navigable for 134 miles, and Lake Champlain is 120 miles long.

The boat was delivered to the New York State Armory in Leeds on March 22 and will now be based along the Hudson River, near two decommissioned nuclear power plants at Indian Point. LC-351 will be used for patrols in the sensitive area.

The tradition of christening a boat by breaking a bottle of wine on it dates back to ancient times, explained Naval Militia Capt. Don McKnight, who heads the Military Emergency Boat Service.

Ancient sailors would try to win favor with the sea god Neptune by offering food or drink to the god when launching a new ship.

Today, special christening bottles are designed so that they break easily on the boat and are covered in mesh to keep glass from flying around.

As the boat’s sponsor, Patricia Weill’s duty was to bash the bottle on the bow and ask for favorable seas for the boat and its crew.

“It was a real honor to play a role in accepting the boat into service,” Weill’s said.

Following the official ceremony, guests took a ride on the Hudson River to see firsthand the capabilities of LC351.

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Abuse From A1

were taken to the ColumbiaGreene Humane Society on Friday morning, said Jamie Hyer-Mitchell, founder of Hyer Ground Rescue.

“Due to the tenacity of the Greene County Sheriff’s Office and Capt. Tracey Quinn,

District From A1

Marc Molinaro’s true record is and that’s one thing that’s not changing from a voter’s standpoint, reminding people who he is,” Committee National Political Director for Recruitment Whitney Larson said.

Shortly after Hochul announced Delgado’s appointment, Molinaro released a statement calling for a special election to replace Delgado in Congress.

“Delgado’s decision to resign midway through the election cycle shows that he knows he would lose in November because of the incredible momentum our campaign has built,” Molinaro said. “Ultimately, the congressman knows that he and his party are responsible for the crime wave, out-of-control inflation and illegal attempts to

two more innocent lives were saved,” Hyer-Mitchell said.

Once at the shelter, the dogs remained slightly nervous Friday morning, Farkas said.

The dogs are currently under the care of the shelter, and after a full examination and a rehabilitation period will be up for foster/adoption to their new forever home, Perez said.

“We’re optimistic with the help of our trained staff the pups will make a complete

recovery and lead a full, happy life in their new home without the threat of cruelty in their lives,” Perez said.

After he was charged Thursday, Diehl was issued appearance tickets for Town of Catskill Court, Quinn said.

Perez is confident the Greene County District Attorney’s office will deliver justice for Paris and Scoob, he said on Friday.

“Hyer Ground Rescue will

continue to support and collaborate with law enforcement and hold accountable those who maliciously abuse or mistreat animals in our community,” Hyer-Mitchell said.

“On behalf of Paris and Scoob and a grateful Humane Society, we’d like to thank the Greene County Sheriff’s Office for a job well done,” Perez said.

draw themselves safe districts.”

Several officials have hinted at a potential Democratic run for the 19th District in the days since the governor’s announcement.

Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan, a Democrat, has suggested he may toss his hat into the race. A short time after Hochul’s announcement Tuesday, Ryan made a series of posts on Twitter.

“He (Delgado) will also leave very big shoes to fill, and I’m humbled and honored that members of this community are calling on me to run,” Ryan said.

“My entire life has been oriented around service, and so I’m now seriously considering how best to continue serving my community and constituents. After last night’s devastating news, it’s clear that now more than ever we need champions in Congress who’ll protect fundamental rights and freedom and fight back against

Washington extremism. So, stay tuned.”

Ryan previously campaigned for the 19th Congressional seat but lost the 2018 primary.

“I’ve never felt more strongly about the need for leaders of character to step up and fight for our democracy and our values, so trust that I will be making a decision very soon,” Ryan said Friday.

State Sen. Michelle Hinchey, D-Saugerties, who many had speculated would make a bid for the seat, said Friday she would not run for Congress.

“For the strength of our party and the future we need here in New York state, I have decided to stay in the Senate and run for reelection, however the lines may look,” Hinchey said. “We need representation in Albany fighting against the partisan rhetoric and blatant attacks on the rights we hold so dear.”

Columbia County Democratic Party Chairman Sam Hodge said he does not think

the district will be won by a Republican.

“This is a Democratic district with people who are looking for solutions and the Republican party doesn’t have them,” Hodge said. “So, when voters go to the ballot, they’re going to be looking for a candidate who is pragmatic, who wants to be a problem-solver. That’s what Pat Ryan has done as county executive.”

Hudson Mayor Kamal Johnson said he has been asked about the possibility of running for the 19th Congressional seat.

Hochul said the Committee on Vacancies approved Delgado on Tuesday to run on the ballot with Hochul in November. The exact date of his resignation from the House is unknown, but she has said it will be sometime in May. Watertown Daily Times reporter Ben Beagle contributed to this story.

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when we have exhibits, there are artists that followed Cole or he worked with, but this is all Cole. This is the biggest exhibit we’ve ever footed. It’s about 30 artworks of Cole, some large and some small.”

Gentalen said a German publishing house has released a book based on the new exhibition.

“It all started with a daydream,” Gentalen said of the exhibit. “The curator (Franklin Kelly) has this fantasy of what was here in this studio when Cole so suddenly died at the age of 47 (in 1848). What was he working on? What did he want to work on and what notes did he have? Then he went about, for some years, finding what had been there and where it was now. So this is the culmination of quite a long period of research.”

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Linda Gentalen of the Thomas Cole National Historic Site speaking in front of the Greene County Legislature on May 4. The historic site is presenting a major new exhibition of Cole’s work through Oct. 30.

Dale Finch said the Cole site is a valuable tourist destination for the town, particularly with the Hudson River Skywalk linking the site to Frederic Church’s Olana, another historic landmark.

“I spent one summer at Olana and I had the opportunity to

speak to many of the visitors that would come to the Olana site and they would definitely be interested in going over to the Thomas Cole site as well,” Finch said Thursday. “So now we have the skywalk and they complement each other. It’s great for tourism, not only in Catskill, but

Greene and Columbia counties as well.”

Gentalen said Church and Cole had a long-standing friendship in the 1800s, including visiting Catskill taverns together.

“Cole loved Catskill,” Gentalen said. “He was constantly encouraged to move to the city and he just loved it here.

So much so that some people referred to him as the ‘Catskill hermit.’ He felt like we did, he wasn’t going to spend his life down there.”

On May 22, the Cole site will host the dedication of a cherry tree to former staffer Sybil Tannenbaum. The event, which will begin at 3 p.m., will feature a free open house and music.

Gentalen said the historic site opened 21 years ago with an army of volunteers under the direction of Tannenbaum.

“One of the generals of that group was Sybil Tannenbaum,” Gentalen said. “She’s a lifelong resident of Catskill and she had complete charge of the house, in a way that still amazes me, even though I was there.”

U.S. warns oligarchs of ‘no hiding place’ in yacht seizure K. Oanh Ha Bloomberg

The U.S. is seizing a $325 million megayacht it claims belongs to Russian billionaire Suleiman Kerimov for violations of U.S. laws including money laundering and conspiracy, as it issued a warning to other oligarchs that there’s “no hiding place” for their assets.

Fiji’s High Court granted an order for the U.S. and local authorities to seize the luxury vessel May 3. On Friday, the court refused an application for a temporary stay of the seizure order, according to the country’s Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The yacht was turned over to U.S. authorities Thursday local time, it said.

The U.S. Department of Justice said Kerimov has owned the superyacht since 2021 -- after he was placed on the country’s sanctions list in 2018, according to a statement and seizure warrant. Kerimov and those acting on his behalf routed U.S. dollar transactions through American financial institutions for the support and maintenance of the Amadea for his benefit -- in violation of sanction laws, according to the warrant.

The money laundering and conspiracy violations are related to those transactions, it said.

“This yacht seizure should tell every corrupt Russian oligarch that they cannot hide -- not even in the remotest part of the world,” said U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco. “We will use every means of enforcing the sanctions imposed in response to Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war in Ukraine.”

The U.S. and its allies in Europe and elsewhere have issued rounds of sanctions on hundreds of oligarchs and Russia’s wealthiest citizens connected to President Vladimir Putin to punish

them for supporting the war in Ukraine. Western governments have gone after their assets, including planes and villas -- and have seized more than a dozen megayachts. Still, the case of the Amadea shows the seizures and forfeiture won’t be easy, and are likely to result in legal showdowns to prove who owns those multi million-dollar assets.

Kerimov was sanctioned by the U.K. and the EU March 15. The U.S. placed him on its sanctions list in 2018 for being an official of the government of the Russian Federation. Kerimov is worth about $15.9 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. His family holds a 46% stake in Polyus, the biggest gold producer in Russia.

In the court proceedings, counsel for the ship’s registered owner, Millemarin Investments Ltd., said Kerimov isn’t the owner. The lawyer, Feizal Haniff, didn’t respond to requests for comment.

In the warrant application to seize the Amadea, U.S. authorities appear to lay out the evidence to link Kerimov as the owner of the ship, but those parts have been redacted. It’s likely the legal tussle over ownership will continue.

Local media have reported Haniff has said the superyacht belongs to Eduard Khudainatov, the former chairman and chief executive officer of Rosneft Oil Co., a Russian state-controlled oil and gas company. Khudainatov doesn’t appear to be on sanctions lists.

The Amadea arrived in Fiji on April 12 after an 18-day journey in which it logged the most miles of any superyacht tied to sanctioned Russians since the invasion of Ukraine.

A week after its arrival, a judge ordered authorities to prevent it from leaving the waters of the South Pacific nation.

For retired thoroughbreds, a Kentucky farm offers a serene final furlong Chuck Culpepper The Washington Post

GEORGETOWN, Ky. — At this avant-garde farm, the oldest living Kentucky Derby winner, Silver Charm, 28, can gaze across at Swain, 30, whom he once dueled in Dubai, or look down the road toward Touch Gold, 27, who sneaked up and ruined Silver Charm’s Triple Crown bid at the 1997 Belmont.

The 26-year-old gelding Summer Attraction can frolic with 29-year-old gelding Slamming some 22 years after they served as the exacta one forgotten day at the late Rockingham track in New Hampshire. Your basic golf cart ride can yield the sight of three beings who wrecked Triple Crown bids at Belmont Touch Gold, Sarava (2002) and Birdstone (2004), the last one in a great big groan of a comeback to edge the beloved Smarty Jones.

“The villain of all,” Michael Blowen deadpanned.

They aren’t villains here, of course. They’re part of a tapestry that’s part of a trend: retirement homes for racehorses. At the very moment when animal lovers who wish racing would just go ahead and croak seem to have some momentum with horse deaths in focus in recent years, so does a cultural change from a thoughtless last century to a thoughtful this: the growing idea that slaughter isn’t cool.

By now this Derby week, the decade-old Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance has accredited

82 organizations, including this 19-year-old Old Friends farm. Here’s where somehow a 75-year-old raconteur good at repartee, who didn’t get tenure teaching filmmaking at Emerson College, then became a Boston Globe movie writer and critic, wound up knowing in his bones that the final furlong of life can prove the most exhilarating.

Somehow it’s this guy, Blowen, who grew up in Connecticut thinking horse racing silly, except one day he accompanied an editor to Suffolk Downs near Boston, where he adored immediately “the characters,” the “atmosphere,” the “gambling” and the “drinking” as he wound up saying, “Some people open up the Bible; I opened up the Racing Form,” noting the “revelation.” He once went to Memphis in the 1980s to interview Jerry Lee Lewis, stopped

by Kentucky Horse Park on the way back, saw 1970s greats Bold Forbes and Forego, and marveled. He once just up and volunteered for a New England trainer in the late 1990s. “The slaughter truck used to show up every week and pick up horses,” who would “disappear from the shed row.”

He convinced his wife, a former Boston Globe columnist, to move to Kentucky after she complied on the condition that he wouldn’t go looking for her once she left him. (She still hasn’t.) Now they and their staff tend to about 300 acres,

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Thoroughbred Retirement Farm founder Michael Blowen gets a kiss from Silver Charm, who won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness in 1996.

about 240 retirees and about 91 equine graves, with people who hope to have similar farms seeking counsel from as far away as Japan. Now Blowen knows things he never knew he would know, such as that Silver Charm needs to go into the barn at night because he loathes the headlights on the highway.

From clueless beginnings in 2003 they have forged, 19 years birthing umpteen stories.

“It was three-and-a-half years ago, right around Halloween,” he said as Silver Charm nodded over the fence just behind. “I owed Woodford Feed $27,000. I owed Hilander Feed $23,000 because he’d provided our hay. And then I owed like $90,000 and I had to

pay it all by the end of the year, and I didn’t want to get on the phone, because I realized that if you always have the tin cup out, you’re going to lose. So I put it away. Everything I did was completely counterintuitive.”

He sat in an Adirondack chair in the yard one Friday night, tired from four tours, studying the Daily Racing Form, when a car pulled up. He asked if they could return Saturday, and they said no, and they seemed nice, so wearily he drove the golf cart carrying the pair of North Dakotans. So one ends up saying, “I want to make a donation, but I forgot my checkbook,” of which Blowen says, “Let me put it this way: That’s not the first time I’ve heard that.” Then an

email popped in a few weeks later, saying, “I haven’t forgotten,” and, “It’s a one-time-only donation,” so Blowen figured that meant a good chunk like $200 or $500 or maybe even $1,000.

So: “So anyway, I don’t think much more about it, and then I still haven’t started to call people and bother them about the money, and then the Monday after Thanksgiving, I go to the mailbox, and there’s an envelope there from Fargo, North Dakota. And there’s no letter in it. And there’s no nothing. The only thing in it was a check. And I opened up, and it’s a handwritten check,” and it came from the tourist who happened to be a biotechnology pioneer and . . .

“And it was for a half a million dollars.”

(Pause.)

“I said, ‘Oh, that’s a Pick Six!’ “ He has ridden the adventure to rarefied consciousness. He can tell how stallions must have their own pastures because, as he said: “They like neighbors.

They just don’t like roommates.

Or that’s what I’m told.” He can tell of those moments of waking to learn that a horse has died and waiting a spell as other horses surround the fallen and attempt to nudge him until they process reality. He dislikes the term “rescue” because he frets it implies superiority, and he can suggest that the only reason people think horses can’t talk is

because people, as usual, aren’t listening.

To Game On Dude clamoring for carrots, he’ll say: “I’m coming! Jeez! You’re so bossy!” To Summer Attraction, whom he bought one day in 1999 at Finger Lakes, he’ll say, “You’re still so cute.” With Swain, who just arrived this spring among six pensioned sires from Shadwell Farm in nearby Lexington: “Swain, you want to run?”

This fan of eccentrics has learned something eccentric about humans.

“For years, we didn’t charge [visitors],” he said.

Then: “When we started charging, more people came.”

About 15 tourists arrive by the barn into which Silver Charm has gone, leading to an impromptu Q&A. He tells of Sheikha Hissa’s visit from Dubai (“Five bodyguards!”), Green Mask’s awkward walk (“He’s not that attractive; of course, neither am I”), how the horses give people so much they deserve both “Social Security” and “a 401(k).”

A man mentions he’s from Washington state, and Blowen tells how somebody called after finding the late Taylor’s Special, who finished 13th in the 1984 Kentucky Derby, up there in the Pacific Northwest, wandering abandoned in the woods. He recovered, lived and died here, and Blowen bawled. “You’d think you’d get used to it,” he said of the deaths, “but you never do.”

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HUDSON — Hunter DeGraff ripped a double and single with three RBI to back a strong pitching performance by Brian Curran as Hudson defeated Cairo-Durham, 11-0, in Thursday’s Patroon Conference baseball game.

Curran scattered three hits through five innings with five strikeouts and two walks. Gabe Case finished up, striking out two and allowing one hit.

Jordan Moon had a double and single with two RBI for the Bluehawks (6-5 Patroon, 6-7 overall). Jon Bernockie added two singles and an RBI, Kam Taylor singled and drove in two runs and Curran Ashton Hotaling and Connor Tomaso all singled.

Jacob Young doubled for Cairo-Durham. Zach Russell added two singles and James Young singled.

Cole Partridge (4k,3bb,5r,6h), James Young (1bb,5r,5h) and Alberto Rivera (1bb1r,1h) all pitched for the Mustangs.

Maple Hill 12, Hudson 11 HUDSON — Aidan Loszynski singled in Sam Gamello with the game-winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning to give Maple Hill a 12-11 victory over Hudson in the the completion of a

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Cairo-Durham first baseman Jacob Young fields a ground ball during Thursday’s Patroon Conference baseball game against Hudson.

game that was suspended by darkness on April 4.

Even though the game was played in Hudson, Maple Hill was designated the home team because its field was unplayable on April 4.

The game resumed in the top of the seventh inning and Hudson went quietly in its half of the frame. In the bottom of the seventh, Gavin Van Kempen See BLUEHAWKS B6

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H.S. SOFTBALL: Panthers finish Titans in

CHATHAM — The Chatham Panthers remained undefeated Thursday after beating the Taconic Hills Titans, 12-0, via the mercy rule in five innings in Thursday’s Patroon Conference softball game.

Emily Mesick continued her great season on the mound and earned another shutout win as she quieted the Titans’ offense. Marissa Ensign took the loss for Taconic Hills, allowing ten runs over four innings of work on the hill.

Ava Skabowski led off the game with a pop up tailing toward the third base line.

Chatham shortstop Erin Madsen tracked it down and made the catch for the first out. Grace Alvarez dropped a base hit into shallow center

VALATIE — Morgan Ormerod threw a nohitter with 15 strikeouts as Ichabod Crane defeated Mohonasen, 9-0, in Thursday’s Colonial Council softball game.

Makayla Walsh had a triple, double and single with an RBI for the Riders (11-0). Ava Heffner tripled and drove in a run, Abby Milazzo added a double and two singles with an RBI, Carolina Williams and Emma Scheitinger both had two singles and an RBI, Emma Heartquist singled and drove in a run and Clare Knapp singled.

Ichabod Crane, the No. 1 Class B team in the state, has outscored its opponents, 206-6.

PATROON Hudson 15, Cairo-Durham 0 HUDSON — Make that eight wins in a row for the Hudson softball team as the Bluehawks posted a 15-0 victory over CairoDurham in Thursday’s Patroon Conference game.

The game was stopped after five innings because of the 10-run rule.

Gabby Logue led Hudson (10-3) with a triple, two doubles, a single and two RBI. Alyssa Harp had

a double and two singles with three RBI, Lindsay Martin and Arianna Camacho each had a double and single, Ashley Harp doubled and drove in two runs, Lily Kritzman and Olivia Plaia both collected two singles and two RBI, Aliyah Camacho had two singles and an RBI and Kamryn Lapge singled and drove in two runs.

Sadie Hall tripled for Cairo-Durham.

Kritzman fired a threehit shutout for Hudson with 13 strikeouts and one walk.

Addy Hall took the loss, allowing 15 runs and 19 hits with two strikeouts and five walks.

Greenville 22, Catskill 1 CATSKILL — Shea Landversicht pitched a one-hitter and helped her own cause with a double, two singles and five RBI as Greenville defeated Catskill, 22-1, in Thursday’s Patroon Conference softball game.

Emma Haller had a double, two singles and two RBI for the Spartans (9-5). Olivia Hughes added a double and two singles, Maddy Prayto doubled and drove in two runs, Brianna Shutter

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HUDSON — Mikayla Khadijah won the 110 and 400-meter hurdles and the triple jump to lead the Cairo-Durham girls track and field team to wins over Hudson and Albany Leadership Thursday.

Olivia Mann was a double winner for Hudson, winning the high jump in 4-6 and the long jump in 14-7.5.

Hudson’s Tessa Goldstien achieved the standard to participate in the State Qualifying meet with her winning throw of 32-6 in the shot put.

Green Tech’s Isaac Sylvain and Cairo-Durham’s Minhitri Numh were both triple winners for the top performances of the day in the Green Tech, Hudson, Cairo-Durham triangular meet Thursday in Hudson.

GIRLS Cairo-Durham 86, Hudson 39 Cairo-Durham 94 ALC 28 Hudson 65, ALC 38 Results 4x800 relay: Cairo-Durham 14:47; 100m hurdles: Khadijah (CD) :18.9; 100m: Kimana (AL) :13.4; 1500m: Nieves (CD) 7:29; 4x100 relay: Cairo-Durham :55.00; 400m: Sherburne (CD) :74.0; 400m hurdles: Khadijah (CD) 1:16.3; 200m: T.Carr (Hud) :28.7: 3000m: Nieves (CD) 17:22; Long jump: Mann 14-7.5; Triple jump: Khadijah (CD) 28-4.5; Shot put: Goldstien (Hud) 32-6;

Discus: Hawley (CD) 76-6; High jump: Mann (Hud) 4-6; Pole vault Kudlack (Hud) 5-6.

BOYS Green Tech 110, Hudson 13 Cairo-Durham 79 Hudson 21 Results 4x800 relay: Green Tech 11:21.7; 110m hurdles: Walden( GT) :21.1; 100m: Elliot (GT) :11.8; 1500m: Dinh (CD) 5:32; 4x100 relay: Green Tech :45.8; 400m: Dinh (CD) :57.5; 400m hurdles McCabe (CD) :75.1; 800m: Dinh (CD) 2:29.8; 200m: Sylvan (GT) :24.6; 3000m: Henry (CD) 14:47.5; 4x400 relay: CairoDurham 4:04.5; Long jump Sylvain (GT)18-6.5; Triple jump: Bender (GT) 34-7; Shot put: Lewis (Hud) 345.5; Discus: Tyson (GT) 78-0; High jump: Sylvain (GT) 5-4.

BOYS MH 95, Taconic Hills 46 Taconic Hlls 116, Watervliet 13 Results 4x800 relay: Maple Hill 10:19; 110m hurdles: Howard (TH) :15.0; 100m: Woodbury (W) :11.1; 1600m: Marra (MH) 4:52; 4x100 relay: Maple Hill : 4 6 . 0 ; 400m: Sterantino (MH) :53.7; 400m hurdles: Howard (TH) :57.4; 800m: Marra (MH) 2:19; 200m: Sterantino :24.0; 3200m: Marra (MH) 10:30.1; 4x400 relay: Maple Hill 3:57; Shot put: Burns (TH) 42-3.5; See KHADIJAH B4

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ML Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE East W L Pct GB NY Yankees 18 7 .720 — Tampa Bay 15 10 .600 3.0 Toronto 16 11 .593 3.0 Baltimore 10 16 .385 8.5 Boston 10 16 .385 8.5 Central W L Pct GB Minnesota 15 11 .577 — Cleveland 12 13 .480 2.5 Chi. White Sox 11 13 .458 3.0 Kansas City 8 15 .348 5.5 Detroit 8 16 .333 6.0 West W L Pct GB LA Angels 17 10 .630 — Houston 15 11 .577 1.5 Seattle 12 13 .480 4.0 Texas 10 14 .417 5.5 Oakland 10 15 .400 6.0 Wednesday’s games Houston 7, Seattle 2 Tampa Bay 3, Oakland 0 Baltimore 9, Minnesota 4 Toronto 2, NY Yankees 1 LA Angels 10, Boston 5, 10 innings Thursday’s games LA Angels 8, Boston 0 Cleveland 6, Toronto 5 Baltimore 5, Minnesota 3 Houston 3, Detroit 2 Tampa Bay at Seattle, 9:40 p.m.

Friday’s games Kansas City (Hernandez 0-1) at Baltimore (Lyles 2-2), 7:05 p.m.

Texas (Otto 1-0) at NY Yankees (Cole 2-0), 7:05 p.m.

Toronto (Gausman 2-1) at Cleveland (Bieber 1-1), 7:10 p.m.

Chi. White Sox (Velasquez 1-2) at Boston (Eovaldi 1-0), 7:10 p.m.

Oakland (Irvin 2-1) at Minnesota (TBD), 8:10 p.m.

Detroit (Brieske 0-1) at Houston (Garcia 1-1), 8:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay (McClanahan 1-2) at Seattle (Gilbert 4-0), 9:40 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE East W L Pct GB NY Mets 19 9 .679 — Miami 12 12 .500 5.0 Atlanta 12 15 .444 6.5 Philadelphia 11 15 .423 7.0 Washington 9 18 .333 9.5 Central W L Pct GB Milwaukee 18 8 .692 — St. Louis 14 10 .583 3.0 Pittsburgh 10 14 .417 7.0 Chi. Cubs 9 15 .375 8.0 Cincinnati 3 22 .120 14.5 West W L Pct GB LA Dodgers 16 7 .696 — San Diego 16 9 .640 1.0 Colorado 15 10 .600 2.0 San Francisco 14 10 .583 2.5 Arizona 13 13 .500 4.5 Wednesday’s games Arizona 8, Miami 7 Atlanta 9, NY Mets 2 Milwaukee 18, Cincinnati 4 Colorado 5, Washington 2 LA Dodgers 9, San Francisco 1 Thursday’s games Milwaukee 10, Cincinnati 5 Colorado 9, Washington 7 NY Mets 8, Philadelphia 7 Miami at San Diego, 9:40 p.m.

St. Louis at San Francisco, 9:45 p.m.

Friday’s games LA Dodgers (Anderson 2-0) at Chi. Cubs, 2:20 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Brubaker 0-2) at Cincinnati (Overton 0-0), 6:40 p.m.

NY Mets (Scherzer 4-0) at Philadelphia (Gibson 2-1), 7:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (Lauer 2-0) at Atlanta (TBD), 7:20 p.m.

Colorado (TBD) at Arizona (Kelly 2-1), 9:40 p.m.

Miami (Alcantara 2-1) at San Diego (Darvish 2-1), 9:40 p.m.

St. Louis (Hicks 1-2) at San Francisco (TBD), 10:15 p.m.

Interleague Wednesday’s games Detroit 3, Pittsburgh 2 San Diego 5, Cleveland 4 St. Louis 10, Kansas City 0 Pittsburgh 7, Detroit 2 Cleveland 6, San Diego 5, 10 innings Texas 2, Philadelphia 1, 10 innings Chi. White Sox 4, Chi. Cubs 3 Friday’s game Washington at LA Angels, 9:38 p.m.

Pro basketball NBA PLAYOFFS Tuesday’s games Boston 109, Milwaukee 86, series tied 1-1 Memphis 106, Golden State 101, series tied 1-1 Wednesday’s games Miami 119, Philadelphia 103, Miami leads series 2-0 Phoenix 129, Dallas 109, Phoenix leads series 2-0 Thursday’s games No games scheduled Friday’s games Miami at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Dallas, 9:30 p.m.

Saturday’s games Boston at Milwaukee, 3:30 p.m.

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

MLB roundup: Mets stun Phils with seven-run ninth Field Level Media

Francisco Lindor and Starling Marte homered and the New York Mets scored seven runs in the ninth inning to rally past the host Philadelphia Phillies 8-7 on Thursday.

Brandon Nimmo ripped a two-run single with two outs in the top of the ninth to tie the game at 7 before Marte delivered the winning RBI double one batter later.

Marte drove in two runs, Lindor added a two-run homer and Pete Alonso and Jeff McNeil had two hits apiece for New York, which had been 0-330 over the past 25 seasons in games in which it trailed by at least six runs in the ninth inning.

Bryce Harper hit a home run and double, knocked in two runs and scored twice for the slumping Phillies, who have lost four in a row. Nick Castellanos homered and drove in three runs and Jean Segura contributed three hits for the Phillies.

Angels 8, Red Sox 0 Jared Walsh’s two-run home run broke a scoreless tie in the seventh inning and preceded a five-run eighth that lifted Los Angeles over host Boston.

Walsh went 2-for-4 with four RBIs and a run scored for the Angels, who claimed the three-game series with back-to-back wins in which they outscored the Red Sox 18-5. Shohei Ohtani (3-2) pitched seven scoreless innings and gave up six hits with 11 strikeouts without a walk. He also went 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run.

The game started as a classic duel between Ohtani and Boston’s Rich Hill, with the latter allowing just one hit and one walk while striking out six over five scoreless frames. It was the 42-year-old lefty’s longest start of the season – the 200th of his career.

Guardians 6, Blue Jays 5 Cleveland rode a three-run fifth inning and a solid performance from starter Aaron Civale to nip visiting Toronto.

Civale (1-2) pitched 5 2/3 innings and allowed four runs, six hits and no walks.

He struck out a season-high eight batters in the opener of a four-game set. Emmanuel Clase earned his fifth save with a perfect ninth. Rookie Steven Kwan hit his first career home run.

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Alejandro Kirk blasted homers for the Blue Jays.

Astros 3, Tigers 2 Kyle Tucker delivered a walk-off single in the ninth inning and Houston Astros claimed the opener of a four-game series with visiting Detroit. The Astros have won four consecutive games while the Tigers fell for the third time in four games.

Trailing 2-0 with two outs in the top of the ninth, the Tigers rallied behind Miguel Cabrera’s single and Jeimer Candelario’s home run. The tying blast came off Astros closer Ryan Pressly, who had missed the previous 19 games due to right knee inflammation.

Pressly (1-1) emerged as the winner despite allowing the two runs in his lone inning. Gregory Soto (1-2) took the loss.

Brewers 10,

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New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor (12) and right fielder Starling Marte (6) celebrate their win against the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park on Thursday.

Reds 5 Willy Adames homered twice and drove in four runs as host Milwaukee completed a three-game sweep of woeful Cincinnati.

It was the eighth win in nine games for the Brewers, who clubbed five home runs off Cincinnati rookie starter Hunter Greene. Christian Yelich homered as part of a three-hit game for the National League Central leaders, who outscored the Reds 34-12 in the series.

Tyler Stephenson homered and singled for the Reds, who lost their ninth straight and were swept in an entire road trip for a second consecutive time. The Reds have dropped 20 of their past 21 games. The loss was Cincinnati’s 13th straight on the road, its longest such skid since dropping 19 straight between July 5-Aug. 24, 1933.

Orioles 5, Twins 3 Ryan Mountcastle hit two of Baltimore’s five solo home runs as the Orioles beat visiting Minnesota to salvage a split of the four-game series.

Austin Hays broke a tie with a one-out homer in the eighth inning, and Mountcastle followed with his second blast of the game. Cedric Mullins and Jorge Mateo also homered for the Orioles. Mountcastle doubled his home run total for the season as he now has four.

Jorge Lopez (3-1) earned the win by logging the last 1 1/3 innings. Byron Buxton homered and knocked in three runs for the Twins, who had won 11 of 12 games before losing to the Orioles on consecutive nights.

Rockies 9,

Nationals 7 Garrett Hampson and Brendan Rodgers each blasted three-run home runs and Randal Grichuk added a solo shot to power host Colorado over Washington in Denver.

Behind the three long balls, the Rockies took two of three games in the series.

The ball was carrying to all fields at Coors Field, with the teams combining for five home runs and 25 hits. The difference was that two of Colorado’s homers came with runners on base, compared to solo shots

by Juan Soto and Keibert Ruiz for Washington.

Grichuk’s opposite-field home run in the seventh inning gave the Rockies some insurance. Cesar Hernandez, who extended his hit streak to 11 games, had an RBI groundout in the eighth for the Nationals.

Padres 2, Marlins 1 Manny Machado hit two solo homers and Nick Martinez fired seven effective innings as host San Diego won for the third time in four games and handed Miami a fifth straight loss.

Martinez (2-2) delivered his best start of the season to outduel Miami’s Jesus Luzardo in the opener of a four-game series. The San Diego right-hander allowed one run on four hits and a walk with four strikeouts.

Machado hit his sixth homer of the season into the Padres’ bullpen with two outs in the first inning. No. 7 came with one out in the fourth and sailed into the second deck at Petco Park in left-center. Machado produced his ninth multi-homer game

Rangers bounce back with Game 2 victory over Penguins to even series Colin Stephenson Newsday

Pro hockey STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS Tuesday’s games Pittsburgh 4, NY Rangers 3, 3OT Washington 4, Florida 2 Colorado 7, Nashville 2, Colorado leads series 1-0 Calgary 1, Dallas 0, Calgary leads series 1-0 Wednesday’s games Carolina 5, Boston 2 Tampa Bay 5, Toronto 3 Minnesota 6, St. Louis 2 Edmonton 6, Los Angeles 0 Thursday’s games NY Rangers 5, Pittsburgh 2, Series tied 1-1 Florida 5, Washington 1, Series tied 1-1 Colorado2, Nashville 0, Colorado leads series 2-0 Dallas 2, Calgary 0, Series tied 1-1 Friday’s games Carolina at Boston, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.

Minnesota at St. Louis, 9:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Los Angeles, 10 p.m.

Tennis MUTUA MADRID OPEN At La Caja Magica Madrid Surface: Clay Men Singles Third Round Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Andy Murray, United Kingdom, walkover.

Alexander Zverev (2), Germany, def. Lorenzo Musetti, Italy, 6-3, 1-0, retired.

Rafael Nadal (3), Spain, def. David Goffin, Belgium, 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (9).

Stefanos Tsitsipas (4), Greece, def. Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgaria, 6-3, 6-4.

Andrey Rublev (6), Russia, def. Daniel Evans, England, 7-6 (7), 7-5.

Carlos Alcaraz (7), Spain, def. Cameron Norrie (9), United Kingdom, 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-3.

Felix Auger-Aliassime (8), Canada, def. Jannik Sinner (10), Italy, 6-1, 6-2.

Hubert Hurkacz (12), Poland, def. Dusan Lajovic, Serbia, 7-5, 6-3.

Women Singles Semifinals Ons Jabeur (8), Tunisia, def. Ekaterina Alexandrova, Russia, 6-2, 6-3.

Jessica Pegula (12), United States, def. Jil Belen Teichmann, Switzerland, 6-3, 6-4.

at Petco Park, a record at the 18-year-old venue.

Cardinals 7, Giants 1 Tommy Edman and Tyler O’Neill combined for five hits and five RBIs, Miles Mikolas pitched 5 2/3 effective innings and St. Louis ran away from host San Francisco.

Yadier Molina socked his first home run of the season for the Cardinals, who won for the fourth time in five games.

Mikolas (2-1) allowed one run on seven hits while walking three and striking out three.

Mike Yastrzemski, Wilmer Flores and Luis Gonzalez had two hits each for the Giants, who dropped their fourth straight.

Yastrzemski knocked in San Francisco’s only run.

Rays 4, Mariners 3 Mike Zunino’s three-run homer against his former club highlighted Tampa Bay’s four-run fourth inning as the visiting Rays edged Seattle for their fourth consecutive win.

Tampa Bay’s Harold Ramirez went 2-for-4 with a run, an RBI and a stolen base, and Yandy Diaz had a single and a walk to extend his on-base streak to 16 games. Rays left-hander Shane McClanahan (2-2) yielded two runs on three hits in 5 1/3 innings.

Jesse Winker and Adam Frazier homered for the first time and Eugenio Suarez had an RBI single for the Mariners, who lost their fourth straight. Robbie Ray (2-3) gave up four runs on seven hits in 6 2/3 innings.

NEW YORK — Rangers fans waited five years to see playoff hockey again at Madison Square Garden and they’ll get to see at least another home game.

After dropping the series opener in three overtimes on Tuesday, the Rangers bounced back Thursday when Artemi Panarin, held scoreless in Game 1, and Frank Vatrano, each had a goal and two assists as the Rangers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins, 5-2 in Game 2 of the teams’ first-round series.

The Rangers appeared to escape what could have been a devastating blow when goaltender Igor Shesterkin was flattened on a hit by Pittsburgh’s Jeff Carter with 2:04 remaining in the third period. Shesterkin lay on his back and writhed in pain for a few moments, and the training staff came out to check on him. But he was able to get up on his own and finish the game.

Carter was assessed a two-minute penalty for goaltender interference on the play.

The victory evened the best-of-seven series at one game apiece, and the series shifts to Pittsburgh for the next two games, with Game 3 coming up on Saturday at 7 p.m.

Panarin, who assisted on the first two goals, by Andrew Copp and Ryan Strome, scored his first goal of the playoffs at 8:02 of the third period to give the Rangers a little breathing room and a 4-2 lead. He skated behind the net and backhanded a pass toward the goal crease and the puck banked in off Penguins defenseman

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New York Rangers center Mika Zibanejad (93) attempts a move around Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Kris Letang (58) during the third period in game two of the first round of the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs at Madison Square Garden on Thursday.

Mike Matheson and past goaltender Louis Domingue.

Vatrano made it 5-2 a minute and 47 seconds later when he slipped by Matheson on a rush up the right wing boards, cut in, and whipped a wrist shot over the right shoulder of the righthanded-catching Domingue.

Pittsburgh started the game with Domingue (35 saves), it’s third-string goaltender, in net, after backup Casey DeSmith had been forced to leave Game 1 in the second overtime because of a lower-body injury. No. 1 goalie Tristan Jarry is already out with a lower body injury, believed to be a broken foot.

Pittsburgh also was without forward Rickard Rakell and Brian Dumoulin, who both suffered injuries in Game 1, while the Rangers were without defenseman Ryan Lindgren and forward Barclay Goodrow, whom coach Gerard Gallant said were “banged up.”

Meanwhile, Shesterkin, who made a Rangers record 79 saves in Game 1, was back in goal for the Blueshirts and just as sharp as always. He made 39 saves, many of them of the highest quality. Shesterkin was especially busy in the second period, when the Rangers were outshot, 17-14, and in the early part of the third, before

Panarin cooled the pressure off with his goal.

The Rangers were helped by getting a couple of power plays in Game 2, which was something they didn’t see much of in the series opener. The Blueshirts had finished fourth in the regular season in power play efficiency, scoring on 25.2 percent of their attempts, but they only got one power play in Game 1 - Fox scored on it to give them a 1-0 lead -- while Pittsburgh got four power plays.

“There probably should have been a couple of calls made, definitely, when you look back at it,” Gallant said. “But again, we’re not going to complain. We’re going to go play our game.”

On Thursday, Pittsburgh got two power plays in the first period, and failed to score on either, but the game was 1-1 after one, with the Rangers’ Copp and the Penguins’ Jake Guentzel trading goals, and the Rangers got their second power play of the series at 1:05 of the second period, when Pittsburgh’s John Marino crosschecked Copp. Strome made it count when he tipped in Fox’s shot to put the Rangers up 2-1 at 2:59.

Chris Kreider then redirected a shot by Vatrano past Domingue to make it 3-1 at 12:06 of the period and the Garden was rocking then. But Sidney Crosby pulled the Penguins within 3-2 with a brilliant effort to get to the slot and beat Justin Braun to a rebound and got that past Shesterkin at 18:34.

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At a Derby without Bob Baffert, rookies and grinders and stories abound Chuck Culpepper The Washington Post

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Here’s the Baffert-less Kentucky Derby, abounding with possibilities even in its Baffert-lessness.

The traditional hubbub around Bob Baffert’s Barn 33 at Churchill Downs has yielded to anti-hubbub. The famed trainer is away on suspension after the pharmaceutical fumble last year with apparent winner Medina Spirit. The event lacks the winning trainer of a whopping four of the previous seven editions - no, wait, make that three of seven, given Medina Spirit’s disqualification. Baffert saddled 34 Derby horses across the previous 26 occasions starting in 1996, so a wizened eye might think it briefly sees him over there.

It does not.

Other people have storylines.

Trainer Todd Pletcher has his Derby entries Nos. 60, 61 and 62 since 2000; he’s such a mainstay around here as to be pretty much a third spire. (He has Wood Memorial winner Mo Donegal on the rail.) Trainer Steve Asmussen, winner of just about every other big thing from here to Dubai, tries again with Derby horse No. 24 since 2001, hoping second-favorite Epicenter will exceed Fifty Stars, Private Emblem, Quintons Gold Rush, Storm Treasure, Private Vow, Curlin, Zanjero, Pyro, Z Fortune, Nehro, Daddy Nose Best, Sabercat, Tapiture, Gun Runner, Creator, Lookin At Lee, Hence, Untrapped, Combatant, Long Range Toddy, Max Player, Midnight Bourbon and Super Stock.

Well, two of those guys (Nehro, Lookin At Lee) did finish second.

Well, it’s a hellish damned race.

Twenty colts will run for 14 trainers, five of them Derby rookies, including world travelers Koichi Shintani of Japan (Crown Pride) and the UAEbased Bhupat Seemar of India (Summer Is Tomorrow). Ten trainers seek a first Derby win.

Brad Cox (Cyberknife, Tawny Port, Zozos) does not, but it might feel as if he does because his Mandaloun ascended the board nine months after the wire and upon Medina Spirit’s disqualification. Germany-raised, California-based 56-year-old rookie Tim Yakteen, a Baffert assistant up until 2004, has two hopefuls who used to run for Baffert until late March (Messier, Taiba).

D. Wayne Lukas has Derby horse No. 50 (Ethereal Road), and as Lukas exited the track on a horse Wednesday morning, it grew clear that seeing an 86-year-old man on a horse is even better than seeing an 85-year-old man on a horse.

The early favorite, Zandon, runs for trainer Chad Brown, who is half Lukas’s age and embodies the long struggle this beast of a race can present. He has a fine Derby record from his six previous entries - fourth with Normandy Invasion in 2013, fifth with Practical Joke in 2017, second with Good Magic in 2018 - but the mean old stats just sneer 6-0-1-0 (for races, firsts, seconds, thirds).

“You see those stats sometimes with Derby or Breeders’ Cups and such, and they can sort of stack up on you, quick,” he said in his quiet office. “But

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Trainer Bob Baffert celebrates with the winners trophy after his horse Medina Spirit won the 147th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 1, 2021.

this is the toughest arena to win it, and sometimes you’re running multiple horses in the race, so it kind of skews the record a bit and such.

“So you know, for us, we haven’t made as many starts. I try not to bring the horses unless I think I have a real shot. I have a bigger mix of horses in my barn, a lot of turf horses in my barn so immediately they’re not eligible to run. You know, I have a lot of fillies in my barn, generally not the ones you want to bring here; it takes a rare filly to run in the Derby, let alone be successful to win. So I still have a lot of dirt colts to work with.

Nobody’s going to take out a collection for me, feel bad for me. But it’s just, it’s a percentage of my overall barn.”

In his contemplative approach, he sounded rather like another trainer at another Derby in another office: Shug McGaughey, Brown’s first boss, in 2013, when McGaughey won with Orb. That’s the eccentric contrast of the Derby concept: Some stables - and the moneyed clients of some stables - prioritize this one race more than others.

“You’re not going to find a bunch of turf horses in Steve Asmussen or Bob Baffert’s barn,” Brown said. “That’s not what they want to do. That’s not the way their businesses are set up, to my eye. And they have tremendous success in what they’re doing, you know, and that’s what they want to do, and that’s what their clients want to do. For us, we have a different sort of overall portfolio of horses and clients that have maybe different goals throughout the year. And I have to provide service to each horse, each client, and try to meet their goals.”

His trainee Early Voting, for example, had the points to reach the Derby, but Brown thought it prudent to aim him for the Preakness. If Blue Grass Stakes winner Zandon won, that would bring the occasional reward Derby fate grants to that kind of approach.

If Florida Derby winner White Abarrio won, that might loose a party or two in Barbados.

His gifted 35-year-old trainer, Saffie Joseph Jr., brought both his flowing long brown hair and a Barbadian consciousness to the Derby, on his second venture here, after his Ny Traffic ran eighth in the crowd-less,

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pandemic-hushed Derby of September 2020. So it’s his first

Derby, commotion-wise.

Joseph says he cried tears he

wishes everybody could cry after winning the Florida Derby, and as a way of playing Barbados horse-racing tour guide, he pulls out his phone for a video of the 1982 Gold Cup in the Caribbean island country.

“The track is a smaller track,” he said. “It’s a turf track. It’s six furlongs. But the amazing part of it, the crowd’s so close that you get that feel, like no other track. I don’t know if you could get that close, where the stands is, as far as any track, and I think that gives it a vibrant feel. . . .

“Sometimes on the big days,” he said, “people are, like, on the track. They started [having them back up] when I was growing up, and obviously they started putting in more safety restrictions, but if you go back and put in old Gold Cup videos ...

“See it?” he says of the video.

“You have all those crowds look at that, see those crowds. . . . See that? . . . See on the rails? . . .

You can barely see the horse. . . .

Look at that.”

If Joseph won a Derby, it would go to a former kid who couldn’t wait for school days to end in Barbados so he could get out to the horses. If Yakteen won, it would go to a longtime grinder who grew up with soccer and running, born to a German mother and Lebanese American military father. With his two former Baffert horses, he has navigated the little Baffert-less storm of attention with succinctness and wit. Speaking of video, Yakteen took one of the cluster of reporters around him, so rare was the experience, and he took advice from his wife, Millie Ball, a TV presenter, “so I don’t look as bad as I can,” he told reporters Monday.

If he won, some would say it’s as if Baffert won, and while that could go debated among the hard-bitten track intellectuals, that would be something for a Baffert-less Derby.

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For retired thoroughbreds, a Kentucky farm offers a serene final furlong

to be a biotechnology pioneer and . . .

“And it was for a half a million dollars.”

(Pause.)

“I said, ‘Oh, that’s a Pick Six!’ “ He has ridden the adventure to rarefied consciousness. He can tell how stallions must have their own pastures because, as he said: “They like neighbors.

They just don’t like roommates.

Or that’s what I’m told.” He can tell of those moments of waking to learn that a horse has died and waiting a spell as other horses surround the fallen and attempt to nudge him until they process reality. He dislikes the term “rescue” because he frets it implies superiority, and he can suggest that the only reason people think horses can’t talk is because people, as usual, aren’t listening.

To Game On Dude clamoring for carrots, he’ll say: “I’m coming! Jeez! You’re so bossy!”

To Summer Attraction, whom he bought one day in 1999 at

Finger Lakes, he’ll say, “You’re still so cute.” With Swain, who just arrived this spring among six pensioned sires from Shadwell Farm in nearby Lexington: “Swain, you want to run?”

This fan of eccentrics has learned something eccentric about humans.

“For years, we didn’t charge [visitors],” he said.

Then: “When we started charging, more people came.”

About 15 tourists arrive by the barn into which Silver Charm has gone, leading to an impromptu Q&A. He tells of Sheikha Hissa’s visit from Dubai (“Five bodyguards!”), Green Mask’s awkward walk (“He’s not that attractive; of course, neither am I”), how the horses give people so much they deserve both “Social Security” and “a 401(k).”

A man mentions he’s from Washington state, and Blowen tells how somebody called after finding the late Taylor’s Special, who finished 13th in the 1984 Kentucky Derby, up there in the Pacific Northwest, wandering abandoned in the woods. He recovered, lived and died here, and Blowen bawled.

“You’d think you’d get used to it,” he said of the deaths, “but you never do.”

The retirees do include the unsuccessful, if sometimes with connections. Silver Charm’s daughter Private Charm was in “a slaughter situation” in Louisiana, Blowen said, so she resides where her father lives and paternal grandmother is buried. One gravestone honors Leave Seattle, a Seattle Slew progeny whose racing record goes: 3-0-0-0 (races, wins, places, shows), for lifetime earnings of, the stone notes, $0. The departed resting here include Derby winners Charismatic (1999) and War Emblem (2002) and apparent Derby winner Medina Spirit (disqualified in 2021).

Supporters include the Stronach family, whose 1996 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner, Alphabet Soup, lived and died here; A&M Records founder Jerry Moss, who owned 2005 Derby winner Giacomo; and the Bafferts, including Hall of Fame trainer Bob, suspended from the Derby after Medina Spirit tested positive for an overage of a medication last spring.

Hanse (Coxsackie-Athens) defeated Julian DelFavero, 6-3, 7-6(7-5); Luke Hoffman (Maple Hill) defeated Gage Decker, 7-5, 6-2; Luca Flach (Maple Hill) defeated Matt Burch, 6-1, 6-2; Nathan Sober (Maple Hill) won by forfeit.

Doubles: Shane McGarvey & Colin Cartwright (Maple Hill) defeated Demar Lewison & Caleb McIlroy, 6-1, 6-1; Hayden Landry & Adam Cogliandro (Maple Hill) defeated Asa Decker & Nathan Rausch, 6-3, 6-2.

Taconic Hills 7, Cairo-Durham 0 CRARYVILLE — Taconic Hills blanked Cairo-Durham, 7-0, in Thursday’s Patroon Conference tennis match.

“This was another good win for us as we try to build some momentum going into our final matches,” Taconic Hills coach Tom Russo said. “I thought No. 1 Connor (Gruppo) played a strong match.

He has improved his ability to develop and control points.

Sebastian (Camacho) was able

to secure the win inspite of a strong rally by his opponent in the second set. He was pretty tired, but made one last push to prevent the match from going into a third set.”

Taconic Hills improves to 7-3 overall.

Results Singles: Connor Gruppo (Taconic Hills) defeated Kingston Czajkowski, 7-6(74), 6-3; Sebastian Camacho (Taconic Hills) defeated Brenden Feeney, 6-1, 7-5; Bryce Atwood (Taconic Hills) defeated Thomas Rohan, 6-0, 6-1; Benjamin Hunter (Taconic Hills) defeated Alex Gouza, 6-1, 6-0; Jacob Hunter (Taconic Hills) defeated Adrian Mcguire, 6-1, 6-0.

Doubles: Madeleine Dennis & Wyatt Pewtherer (Taconic Hills) defeated Jacob Weisinger & Axl Agustin, 6-0, 6-2; Lizzette Flores-Gomes & Anthony Genovese (Taconic Hills) defeated Gavin Warner & Drew Warner, 6-1, 6-1.

Chuck Culpepper The Washington Post

GEORGETOWN, Ky. — At this avant-garde farm, the oldest living Kentucky Derby winner, Silver Charm, 28, can gaze across at Swain, 30, whom he once dueled in Dubai, or look down the road toward Touch Gold, 27, who sneaked up and ruined Silver Charm’s Triple Crown bid at the 1997 Belmont.

The 26-year-old gelding Summer Attraction can frolic with 29-year-old gelding Slamming some 22 years after they served as the exacta one forgotten day at the late Rockingham track in New Hampshire. Your basic golf cart ride can yield the sight of three beings who wrecked Triple Crown bids at Belmont Touch Gold, Sarava (2002) and Birdstone (2004), the last one in a great big groan of a comeback to edge the beloved Smarty Jones.

“The villain of all,” Michael Blowen deadpanned.

They aren’t villains here, of course. They’re part of a tapestry that’s part of a trend: retirement homes for racehorses. At the very moment when animal lovers who wish racing would just go ahead and croak seem to have some momentum with horse deaths in focus in recent years, so does a cultural change from a thoughtless last century to a thoughtful this: the growing idea that slaughter isn’t cool.

By now this Derby week, the decade-old Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance has accredited 82 organizations, including this 19-year-old Old Friends farm. Here’s where somehow a 75-year-old raconteur good at repartee, who didn’t get tenure teaching filmmaking at Emerson College, then became a Boston Globe movie writer and critic, wound up knowing in his bones that the final furlong of life can prove the most exhilarating.

Somehow it’s this guy, Blowen, who grew up in Connecticut thinking horse racing silly, except one day he accompanied an editor to Suffolk Downs near Boston, where he adored immediately “the characters,” the “atmosphere,” the “gambling” and the “drinking” as he wound up saying, “Some people open up the Bible; I opened up the Racing Form,” noting the “revelation.” He once went to Memphis in the 1980s to interview

Khadijah From B1

Discus: Sturgis (MH) 1161; Long jump: Howard (TH) 21-5.75; Ttriple jump: Coyne (MH) 37-7.75; High jump: Haller (MH) 5-4; Pole vault: Howard (TH) 14-0.

GIRLS MH 99, Taconic Hills 38 Taconic HIlls 104, Watervliet 8 Results 4x800 relay: MH (Frazier, Deso, Nowel, Pusateri) 11:38; 100m hurdles: Jacobs (MH) :17.6; 100m: Ingram (TH) :13.4; 1500m: Pusateri(MH) 5:52; 4x100 relay: Maple Hill (Jacobs, Fletcher, Hirschoff, Honsinger) :54.1; 400m: Bosko (TH) :63.3; 400m hurdles: Jacobs (MH) 1:16.1; 800m: Pusateri (MH) 2:38.6; 200m: Hirschoff (MH) :28.3; 3000m: Frazier (MH) 13:04.8; 4x400 relay: Maple Hill (Deso, Fletcher, Noel, Thomas) 4:50.8; Pole

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had three singles and two RBI, Grace Herbek collected two singles and an RBI, Camryn Childs singled and drove in two runs and Nuala Kappel, Taryn Silk, Celina Miller and Isabella Zarcone all drove in a run.

Aaliyah Shook singled for Catskill’s only hit.

Mairin Apjohn was the losing pitcher, striking out two, walking nine and allowing 22 runs and 16 hits.

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Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Farm founder Michael Blowen gets a kiss from Silver Charm, who won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness in 1996.

Silver Charm, who won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness in 1996, grazes at Dream Chase Farm.

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Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Farm founder, Michael Blowen, races Swain along the fence at Dream Chase Farm, the main facility that is home to more than 130 former racehorses and breeding stallions.

Silver Charm looks out at a tour group that just arrived at the barn at the Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Farm.

Jerry Lee Lewis, stopped by Kentucky Horse Park on the way back, saw 1970s greats Bold Forbes and Forego, and marveled. He once just up and volunteered for a New England trainer in the late 1990s. “The slaughter truck used to show up every week and pick up horses,” who would “disappear from the shed row.”

He convinced his wife, a former Boston Globe columnist, to move to Kentucky after she complied on the condition that he wouldn’t go looking for her once she left him. (She still hasn’t.) Now they and their staff tend to about 300 acres, about 240 retirees and about 91 equine graves, with people who hope to have similar farms seeking counsel from as far away as Japan. Now Blowen knows things he never knew he would know, such as that Silver Charm needs to go into

the barn at night because he loathes the headlights on the highway.

From clueless beginnings in 2003 they have forged, 19 years birthing umpteen stories.

“It was three-and-a-half years ago, right around Halloween,” he said as Silver Charm nodded over the fence just behind. “I owed Woodford Feed $27,000. I owed Hilander Feed $23,000 because he’d provided our hay. And then I owed like $90,000 and I had to pay it all by the end of the year, and I didn’t want to get on the phone, because I realized that if you always have the tin cup out, you’re going to lose. So I put it away. Everything I did was completely counterintuitive.”

He sat in an Adirondack chair in the yard one Friday night, tired from four tours, studying the Daily Racing Form, when a car pulled up. He asked if they

could return Saturday, and they said no, and they seemed nice, so wearily he drove the golf cart carrying the pair of North Dakotans. So one ends up saying, “I want to make a donation, but I forgot my checkbook,” of which Blowen says, “Let me put it this way: That’s not the first time I’ve heard that.” Then an email popped in a few weeks later, saying, “I haven’t forgotten,” and, “It’s a one-time-only donation,” so Blowen figured that meant a good chunk like $200 or $500 or maybe even $1,000.

So: “So anyway, I don’t think much more about it, and then I still haven’t started to call people and bother them about the money, and then the Monday after Thanksgiving, I go to the mailbox, and there’s an envelope there from Fargo, North Dakota. And there’s no letter in it. And there’s no nothing. The only thing in it was a check. And I opened up, and it’s a handwritten check,” and it came from the tourist who happened

vault: Olson (TH) 7-0; Triple jump: Ingram (TH) 29-7; Long jump: Hirschoff (MH) 13-10.5; Shot put: Fletcher (MH) 28-1; Discus: Donahue (MH) 69-0; High jump: Arre (TH) 4-2.

BOYS C-A 75 Greenville 66 Results 4x800 relay: Greenville (Cullen, Barnes, Kosich, Motta) 9:24.4; 110m hurdles: Williams (CA) :19.7; 100m: Close (G); 1600m: Kosich (G) 4:56.9; 4x100 relay: C-A (Williams,A. Perino, Morehouse,R. Perino) :49.4; 400m: Van Hoesen (CA) :58.7; 400m hurdles: Flensted (G) :65.7 800m: Williams (CA) 2:11.2; 200m: Moorehouse (CA) :25.8; 3200m: Motta (G) 11:32.2; 4x400 relay: C-A (Moorehouse, Williams, Chan, VanHoesen) 3:56.4; Long jump: Perino (CA) 16-4; High jump: J. Britton (G) 5-4; Pole vault: Glensted (G) 9-5; Shot put: Moore (CA) 35-0; Discus: Wank (G) 88-0.

GIRLS C-A 115 Greenville 26 Results

4x800 relay: Greenville (Fitzmaurice, Smith, Aloise, Styer) 11:23.6; 100m hurdles: Soto (CA) :17.8; 100m: StromWarren (CA) :13.2; 1500m: Fitzmaurice (G) 5:28.9; 4x100 relay: C-A (Strom-Warren, Chimento, DeLeon, Wolbert) :58.7; 400m: Briski (CA) :68.7; 400m hurdles: Soto (CA) :72.8; 800m: Crown (CA) 2:37.3; 200m: DeLeon (CA) :27.4; 3000m: Hubert (CA) 12:52.3; 4x400 relay: C-A (Hubert, Crown, Briski, Soto) 4:36.8; Long jump: Wolbert (CA) 13-5; Triple jump: S. Inzerillo (CA) 28-11; High jump: Squier (CA) 4-8; Shot put: Wisenbrun (G) 25-4.5; Discus: Wolbert (CA) 76-10.25; Pole vault: Inzerillo (CA) 7-0.

TENNIS COLONIAL Ichabod Crane 4, Mohonasen 3 VALATIE — Ichabod Crane earned a 4-3 victory over Mohonase-Schenectady in Thursday’s Colonial Council tennis match.

Results

Singles: Ean Lantzy (Ichabod Crane) defeated Josiah Spivey, 6-1, 6-3; Brett Richards (Ichabod Crane) defeated Noah Spivey, 6-2, 6-1; Hasan Serville (Mohonasen-Schenectady) defeated Liam Curry, 2-6, 7-5, 10-1; Simon Papas (Ichabod Crane) defeated Mohamed Shahabuddeen, 6-2, 6-1; Holden Reynolds (Ichabod Crane) defeated Vincenzo DiCastanzo, 6-2, 6-1.

Doubles: Saeed Shahabuddeen & Bilal Shohatee (Mohonasen-Schenectady) defeated Anthony Doria & Joseph Meyer, 6-4, 6-4; Daniel Garcia & Tariq Ali (Mohonasen-Schenectady) defeated Quinn Rapport & Evan Schieren, 9-7.

PATROON Maple Hill 6, Coxsackie-Athens 1 CASTLETON — Maple Hill defeated Coxsackie-Athens, 6-1, in Thursday’s Patroon Conference tennis match.

Results Singles: Landon Flach (Maple Hill) defeated Leo Woytowich, 2-6, 6-4, 10-8; Gavin

Ichabod Crane JV 8, Mohonasen JV 0 SCHENECTADY — Anna Siter fired a one-hit shutout with 15 strikeouts and no walks as the Ichabod Crane junior varsity softball team

defeated Mohonasen, 8-0, on Thursday.

Siter helped herself with the bat, collecting a triple, double and single with three RBI as the ICC JVs improved to 8-0.

Meredith Garafalo added a

double and two singles with two RBI, Torri Cutler singled and drove in two runs, Ali Cox singled and drove in a run and Olivia McCrudden, Aubrey Hover, Riley Strobel and Maddie Clark all singled.

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Cairo-Durham’s Zach Russell (11) slides safely in to second base ahead of the tag of Hudson second baseman Antonio Troy (10) during Thursday’s Patroon Conference baseball game.

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Cairo-Durham catcher Zach Russell throws to second base during Thursday’s Patroon Conference baseball game against Hudson.

Hudson catcher Isaiah Maines looks to second base after tagging out Cairo-Durham’s James Young at the plate during Thursday’s Patroon Conference baseball game.

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belted a long fly ball that Hudson center fielder Connor Tomaso caught at the fence for the first out.

Gamello followed with a double to left-center and Jerry Stalker walked, setting the stage for Loszynski, who came through with his clutch hit to end the game.

NON-LEAGUE Catskill 7, Rensselaer 2 RENSSELAER — Demetrio Morales and Carter Van Etten combined on a four-hitter as Catskill defeated Rensselaer, 7-2, in Thursday’s nonleague baseball game.

Morales pitched the first five innings, striking out 11, walking three and allowing two runs (none earned) and three hits. Van Etten finished up, striking out five and allowing one hit.

Cullen Fulling belted a home run and a double with two RBI for the Cats (10-2).

Adam Carson had two singles and two RBI, Eddie Rogers added two singles and an RBI and Danny Smith singled and drove in a run.

Taconic Hills 15, Germantown 0 GERMANTOWN — Brandon Rossano pitched a threehit shutout with eight strikeouts as Taconic Hills posted a 15-0 non-league win over Germantown on Thursday.

Zach Rowe had three singles and two RBI for the Titans (5-10). Kobe Van Alstyne added a double and single with two RBI, Aaron Bonci doubled and drove in two runs, Rossano contributed two singles and an RBI, Landon Halsted singled and drove in two runs, Troy Super singled and drove in a run, Gavin Hartka singled and Ryan Nielsen drove in a run.

Mason Ferrer doubled for Germantown (8-3). Jonathan

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Hudson pitcher Brian Curran (11) fields a slow roller as Cairo-Durham’s Marc Cammarata runs down the first base line during Thursday’s Patroon Conference baseball game.

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Cairo-Durham shortstop Zak Wagor catches a pop fly during Thursday’s Patroon Conference baseball game against Hudson.

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Hudson’s Jordan Moon connects with a pitch during Thursday’s Patroon Conference baseball game against Cairo-Durham.

Mollo and Shawn Lyons both singled.

Ferrer (6k,6bb,4r,5h), Mollo (1k,6bb,10r,3h) and Dylan

Dibble (1k,1r,3h) all pitched for Germantown.

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Hudson pitcher Brian Curran (11) throws to first base after fielding a grounder as Cairo-Durham’s Marc Cammarata hustles down the first base line during Thursday’s Patroon Conference baseball game.

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Hudson’s Brian Curran scores on a wild pitch as Cairo-Durham pitcher Cole Partridge (12) applies the late tag during Thursday’s Patroon Conference baseball game.

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as they looked to strike early at the plate. However, Michaela Masten and Kersten Keeler both grounded out to Madsen at short for the second and third outs.

Ensign took the ball to start the game for the Titans and gave up a leadoff triple to Abby Taylor. Madsen followed that with a two run homer to the opposite field; the ball curved just inside the foul pole in right field but was well over the fence for the round-tripper.

Olive Mountain ripped a double down the third base line to set up another scoring chance for the Panthers. Allyson Engel flew out to center for the first out, and Mountain tagged up to advance to third. Mesick came up and drove in the runner from third with a groundout to widen the lead to 3-0 for the Panthers.

Skylar Waterhouse started off the top of the second with a groundout to short, Madsen taking it for the fourth out she’d made on defense to that point.

Kailey Proper then had a single up the middle, but Kylie Johnson grounded out to first and Mesick struck out Aubrey Proper to end the inning. Anna Freidman led off the bottom half for Chatham, beating out a ground ball up the middle and off the leg of pitcher Ensign. Ensign was okay and stayed in the game, but threw two wild pitches that allowed Freidman to get to third base.

After a shallow pop out by Addison Perry, Taylor drove in Freidman with an RBI groundout to make it 4-0.

Following a pair of base hits

by Madsen and Mountain, Engel brought them around with a two run double to leftcenter and it was 6-0 lead for Chatham.

Mesick kept rolling in the third, striking out Elle Atwood and Ensign to open the frame. Skabowski sent a pitch into right field for a two out single, but Mesick got Alvarez to pop out to Madsen for the third out.

Emily Scheriff started the bottom of the third with a double and after a walk, the throw to third on a Freidman bunt was late and the Panthers loaded the bases.

Perry hit a fly ball to left to score one after the ball was dropped by the left fielder.

Taylor drove in another on a sacrifice fly and a third run came across on an infield single by Madsen to give the Panthers a 9-0 lead.

Chatham showed its baserunning prowess after a fly out to left by Mountain, as they caught the Titans sleeping and the runner took two bases to score and get the lead to 10-0.

Masten popped a ball to shortstop to start the fourth and Madsen dropped it to allow the leadoff batter aboard.

Madsen redeemed herself

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Chatham’s Emily Scheriff drives a ball to the outfield during Thursday’s Patroon Conference softball game against Taconic Hills.

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Chatham’s Abby Taylor follows the flight of her fly ball during Thursday’s Patroon Conference softball game against Taconic Hills.

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Taconic Hills’ Grace Alavarez stands in the batter’s box during Thursday’s Patroon Conference softball game against Chatham.

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Taconic Hills pitcher Marissa Ensign goes into her wind-up during Thursday’s Patroon Conference softball game against Chatham.

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Chatham’s Addi Perry waits on a pitch during Thursday’s Patroon Conference softball game against Taconic Hills.

though, and caught two subsequent pop ups by Keeler and Kailey Proper for the first and second outs.

Waterhouse singled earlier, between the two popouts, and then Johnson got a base hit to center to load the bases for Taconic Hills.

Mesick kept her calm on the mound though, and got Aubrey Proper to pop out back

to the mound for the final out and got out of trouble.

Mesick led off the bottom half of the fourth with a base hit to left and Jillian Silver came in to pinch run. Silver was eliminated quickly on a fielder’s choice grounder to short by Abby Prevratil for the first out.

Ensign ended the inning quickly with a groundout to

first and a fly out to left to get the Titans back to the plate, still trailing 10-0.

Taconic Hills’ offense was kept under the thumb of Mesick however, as she retired the Titans in order with two groundouts to Madsen and a strikeout in the middle.

Taconic Hills brought in Masten for a relief appearance in the bottom of the

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Chatham pitcher Emily Mesick goes into her wind-up during Thursday’s Patroon Conference softball game against Taconic Hills.

fifth.

Perry beat out a ground ball for an infield single to start the inning for the Panthers and promptly stole second base. Taylor worked a walk and hustled to second base as ball four was dropped by the catcher and not gathered quickly; Perry moved to

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Taconic Hills’ Grace Alvarez (5) leads off of first base as Chatham first baseman Hannah Pinto looks on during Thursday’s Patroon Conference softball game.

third base on the play.

Madsen came up and slapped a two run single back up the middle to bring the game to 12-0, and the Chatham Panthers defeated the Taconic Hills Titans as the game was called because of the mercy rule.

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Taconic Hills’ Skylar Waterhouse waits on a pitch during Thursday’s Patroon Conference softball game against Chatham.

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On the positive side, Hendrick Motorsports has won five of the 11 NASCAR Cup Series races so far this season.

Further, Hendrick drivers collectively have 14 all-time Cup victories at Darlington Raceway, more than any other organization in the sport.

Here’s the negative, though: Hendrick hasn’t earned a trophy at the Lady in Black since Jimmie Johnson won the spring race in 2012, and no current driver in the Hendrick stable has a victory at the track.

Based on recent performance, however, that decadelong drought has a good chance to end in Sunday’s Goodyear 400 (3:30 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

After winning for the first time this season in last Sunday’s race at Dover Motor Speedway, 2020 Cup champion Chase Elliott comes to Darlington looking to go back-to-back. Though winless in the Cup Series at the 1.366-mile egg-shaped track, Elliott won at Darlington in the NASCAR Xfinity Series in 2014, the first time he raced on the track.

This weekend, Elliott will get extra seat time by running the No. 88 JR Motorsports Chevrolet in Saturday’s Xfinity Series race.

“I always look forward to going to Darlington,” Elliott said.

“It’s really cool, and I feel like it’s really a driver’s racetrack.

For some reason, I’ve kind of struggled there the last couple of years, so I’m looking forward to getting some practice on Saturday in the Xfinity race.

“Hopefully, that can help me come Sunday. I also feel like there are some things that we learned from Dover that we can take to Darlington. It’ll be interesting with the new car and how

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NASCAR Cup Series driver Chase Elliott (9) pulls his car into victory lane after winning the DuraMAX Drydene 400 at Dover Motor Speedway on Monday.

things go.”

Teammate William Byron, a two-time winner this year, also has shown speed at Darlington. The driver of the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet won the pole for the 2019 Southern 500 before falling to 21st at the finish.

For Throwback Weekend at the “Track Too Tough to Tame,” Byron’s Camaro is sporting a paint scheme reminiscent of one his predecessors in the No. 24 car – NASCAR Hall of Famer Jeff Gordon, a seven-time winner at the track.

Recently, though, Darlington has been the nearly exclusive

province of Toyota driver Denny Hamlin and Ford driver Kevin Harvick. In the five races since the coronavirus pandemic caused a 10-week hiatus in NASCAR competition, Hamlin and Harvick have won two events each, with Hamlin’s Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Martin Truex Jr. taking last year’s spring race.

In fact, a Chevrolet driver hasn’t won at Darlington since Harvick took the checkered flag in the 2014 spring race, the year before Stewart-Haas Racing switched to Ford.

Hamlin has a victory at Richmond to all but ensure a berth

in this year’s playoff, but the rest of his season has been fraught with error – notably an unattached wheel that sabotaged a potential race-winning car last Monday at Dover.

But Hamlin leads all active drivers with four Darlington wins, not to mention his five victories at the track in the Xfinity Series. Hamlin got a feel for the track in the Next Gen car during a March 15 Goodyear tire test that included Harvick and reigning Cup champion Kyle Larson, a Hendrick driver seeking his second win of the season.

“We’re looking forward to

this weekend,” Hamlin said.

“Darlington has been a great track for us, and we feel like we learned a lot at the tire test, so that gives us confidence going back.

“Like all season, our biggest thing is just eliminating mistakes – whether that’s me or on pit road or something happening with the car. It seems like every week has been something, but our speed has been good most weeks, if we can just put everything together.”

–JR Motorsports looks to continue Darlington success on Throwback Weekend: There are four former Darlington winners

in the field for Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race – and three of them are driving for JR Motorsports.

Xfinity regulars Justin Allgaier and Noah Gragson will be joined by double-duty driver Chase Elliott as they try to extend JRM’s winning streak at the “Lady in Black” in Saturday’s Mahindra ROXOR 200 (1:30 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

JR Motorsports drivers swept last year’s races at the venerable 1.366-mile speedway, with Allgaier winning last spring and Gragson taking the checkered flag in the fall race. Gragson already has two victories to his credit this season. Allgaier is looking for his first.

“I can’t wait to get to Darlington this weekend,” said Allgaier, who finished a close second to teammate Sam Mayer last Saturday at Dover Motor Speedway. “We have an awesome throwback design for our Hellman’s Chevrolet, and hopefully we can replicate the same kind of success we had last year and get back into Victory Lane.

“I know this team is capable of doing it, and I’m ready to get down there and make it happen.”

As strong as the JRM Camaros have been at Darlington, it would be unwise to ignore the Joe Gibbs Racing contingent.

Brandon Jones won the fall race in 2020, and 19-year-old Ty Gibbs already is a series-leading three-time winner this season.

Gibbs’ No. 54 Toyota features an Interstate Batteries paint scheme from the year he was born – 2002.

Already qualified for the Xfinity Series playoffs thanks to a win at Martinsville, Jones won the pole and finished seventh last Saturday at Dover.

The Brittney Griner case hangs over this WNBA season - and the league’s future Jerry Brewer The Washington Post

A somber WNBA season begins Friday night. Instead of looking at the running clock, you can measure the league’s time by counting the days Brittney Griner has spent in Russian captivity. She has been a prisoner for 78 now. Two years ago, at the start of the pandemic, the sport played an entire bubble season in 97 days.

What should be a wholly festive time is forced to seem funereal. In all 12 WNBA cities, arenas will feature “BG42” court decals to maintain awareness of Griner, whose detainment is now deemed wrongful by the U.S. government. It’s not often that a common method of memorialization is used to honor a person still with us. Sometimes, though, her situation feels that dire.

As our nation shifts to a more vigorous negotiation of Griner’s release, the case is no longer a geopolitical quandary in which the best option is to stay quiet and move gingerly through the Russian legal system. That may have been the initial, diplomatic approach to trying to free Griner, but as she awaits a May 19 hearing, the United States has seemingly acknowledged the hopelessness of justice.

Griner’s freedom may turn into a crude issue of value.

How much does she mean to America? And what can Russia get in return for her release?

If so, there is no longer a credible reason not to make Griner’s predicament what it has yet to become: the biggest story in American sports.

For months, we have debated why Griner’s case hasn’t been handled with more obvious urgency, but the conversation usually morphs into one about the hierarchy of sports stardom.

What if she were Patrick Mahomes? Or Kevin Durant? Or, OMG, Tom Brady? What would the priority level be then? It’s the same generalized sports banter that gets us nowhere.

Although the stakes are much higher than usual, there’s also a familiar, problematic thread of gender comparison that, no matter the intention, inevitably relegates women to secondary status in a male-dominant sports world.

The hypotheticals don’t matter. They wind up only stretching out an argument that instead needs to focus on what’s real: Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and one of the defining post players in the sport’s history, is a political prisoner. It’s incumbent on the State Department to do everything within reason to bring her home, and if anyone in the U.S. government needs to understand the urgency, there should be an astonishing number of sports fans applying pressure with their interest.

In a different world, in a better world, Griner would be celebrating her 10th pro season, thinking about all she has accomplished at age 31 and looking forward to the final stages of her prime. However, the seventime WNBA all-star was arrested in February at an airport near Moscow for allegedly bringing vape cartridges containing hashish oil into the country. Details about her case are limited, but the United States declared this week that Griner has been “wrongfully detained,” validating suspicions that there’s more to the incident during a time of increased U.S.-Russia tension.

And so the WNBA has met its most formidable, most vexing and most personal challenge. In its first 25 seasons, the league fought to have its value recognized and its business sustained. Despite plenty of turbulence, the results are tangible: The women are here, still fighting, still growing the sport and finally stepping into their power by raising their voices on social issues. It’s a league and a movement, and while it is not yet swimming in profits, it has made a clear impact as a progressive league that does its

finest off-court work championing civil rights, voting rights, women’s rights and reproductive rights.

Those issues are full of endless battles. Year 26 starts amid controversy over a leaked Supreme Court document that indicated the justices are preparing to overturn Roe v. Wade.

The league, individual teams and several players already have taken a strong stance supporting a woman’s right to choose.

All the while, they’re still thinking about Griner.

“It is time for her to come home,” Nneka Ogwumike, president of the WNBA players union, wrote in a tweet.

With the games beginning and the United States handling the case more aggressively, you can expect the players to be a little more vocal about Griner.

And perhaps they can channel some of their 2020 energy, when they came together in Florida to play that pandemic season and dedicated it to Breonna Taylor and the Say Her Name campaign, attempting to raise awareness about police violence against Black women.

During a year of rampant and often perfunctory displays of activism in sports, the WNBA was an authentic force. This time is different, however: foreign turf, uncertainty over how to engage and the need for an even larger base to care about one of their own - and keep caring.

So we’re back to that question of value. Over the past few years, starting with the negotiation of a collective bargaining agreement in 2020, the sport has had to deal with its own existential questions about its business model, player salaries and what it will take to make the WNBA a priority over lucrative opportunities overseas.

Even with the new CBA and enhanced salaries, it’s an unfinished debate that just turned downright scary because Griner was arrested while returning to the Russian team for which she

plays during the WNBA offseason.

Her case can be seen as a bizarre outlier. But it triggered many players who compete overseas before returning to the WNBA during the summer months. They all have reacted the same: “It could have been me,” they say. They aren’t exactly talking about getting busted with hashish oil. But there is a real fear of encountering career-altering hardships

- injuries, usually, such as when Seattle Storm superstar Breanna Stewart tore her right Achilles’ playing in Russia three years ago - because they’re forced to play more basketball than they should to maximize their earnings.

What does it mean to us, as Americans, to own the greatest women’s basketball tradition in the world? If this is a highprofile hostage negotiation, that’s the pointed question that

needs to be answered. It’s not a question that should be left to assumption or hope. It’s not a question the WNBA can answer with the force of its will.

For this one, it would speak volumes if our motley, divided sports world rallied to leave no doubt. If the “Free Brittney” sentiment is limited to “BG42” decals and WNBA passion, then it would be another sign that the so-called power of sports is mostly a sham used for greed.

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B10 - Saturday - Sunday, May 7-8, 2022 CLEANER – F/T, permanent position Evening shift, plus some weekend days. Competitive Salary & Excellent Benefit package available. Visit our Website http://www.chathamcentralschools.com or call (518) 392-1534 for an application.

Applications along with a letter of interest/resume should be submitted by May 13, 2022 to: Andrew Davey, Director of Facilities, Chatham Central Schools, 50 Woodbridge Ave., Chatham, NY 12037.

JOB OPPORTUNITY, TOWN OF ANCRAM HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT The Town of Ancram is accepting applications for a full time Motor Equipment Operator.

Applicant must possess a valid NYS Class A or B Commercial Drivers License (CDL) and pass a preemployment drug test. The job will include the operation of machinery and physical tasks in connection with maintaining town owned equipment and properties.

Applications are available at the office of the Town Highway Superintendent, located at 32 Maple Lane, Ancramdale, NY 12503 during normal business hours of 7am to 3pm Monday to Friday. Phone Contact (518) 329-6190.

James Miller Highway Superintendent Town of Ancram

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Wellsville Central School Elementary Teacher NYS Early Childhood (Birth – 2nd) OR Birth – 6th Certification AIS Reading Teacher (Elementary) Literacy Specialist, NYS Literacy Certification OR NYS Elem. Ed. Certification experience in Literacy Speech Pathologist NYS Certified Speech and Language Disabilities Full-Time, Tenure Track Application Deadline: May 6, 2022 Please apply via www.wnyric.org/application EOE/AA

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Beekmantown Central School District seeks the following NYS anticipated certified positions: Associate Principal (Grades PreK-5) Associate Principal (Grades 9-12) French Teacher 2 - Special Education Teachers 2 - Counselors Consultant Teacher (Indirect Model) Reading Teacher Reading Interventionist Physical Education Teacher Teaching Assistant Family Consumer Science Teacher Mathematics Teacher Science Teacher 3 - Elementary Teachers/Interventionists Library Media Specialist PLEASE SEE THE LINK BELOW TO APPLY! www.bcsdk12.org/jobs/

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SEASONAL JOBS AVAILABLE Town of Ashland is looking for seasonal help for outside maintenance, mowing and weedwacking. Must be 18 years of age to apply. competitive starting wage.

Go to Ashlandny.com to print application and submitted via email at or dropped off at Town Hall at 12094 Route 23, Ashland from 9-5 Monday thru Friday.

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NHL roundup:

OT win puts Avalanche up 2-0 on Predators Field Level Media

Cale Makar scored 8:31 into overtime and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Nashville Predators 2-1 on Thursday night in Denver to take a 2-0 lead in their Western Conference first-round playoff series.

The Avalanche held the Predators to 15 shots after the first period and dominated chances in the third period and overtime. Colorado finally solved Ingram in OT after Nico Sturm took a shot from near the left circle that Ingram saved. The rebound came to Makar in the slot, and his wrister gave the Avalanche a two-game edge in the series.

It was Makar’s second goal of the postseason. Nathan MacKinnon also scored and Darcy Kuemper stopped 25 shots for the Avalanche, who head to Nashville for Game 3 on Saturday.

Rookie goaltender Connor Ingram made a career-high 48 saves and Yakov Trenin scored for the Predators.

Stars 2, Flames 0 Joe Pavelski’s first-period goal held up as the game-winner thanks to a shutout performance by goaltender Jake Oettinger, and visiting Dallas beat Calgary to even the Western Conference first-round series at one win apiece.

Oettinger, in just his second NHL playoff start, made 29 saves – 12 of them in the third period. He has a shutout streak of 114 minutes and 59 seconds, and he has stopped 54 of 55 shots he has faced in the series. Michael Raffl’s empty-net goal with 69 seconds remaining sealed the win.

Jacob Markstrom stopped 21 shots for the Pacific Division-champion Flames, who are in dire need of offensive production with just one goal through the first two contests of the best-of-seven series.

Markstrom has stopped 37 of 38 shots in the series.

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Battle of wills erupts over social media posts Dear Abby, My adult son has a drug addiction, for which he is receiving treatment. My family and I have just met his daughter, who we had only recently learned about. She’s 6. I had a celebration for her birthday DEAR ABBY at my house. My mom (the great-grandma) took pictures of the birthday girl and her friends, and posted them on social media. I had asked her before the party started to please not post pictures of the children on social media. She said she does what she wants.

I don’t believe pictures of children under 18 should be posted on social media and, in this case, especially since we just met my granddaughter. She didn’t have permission from the other children’s moms to post. I feel my mother disrespected my house and my rules, and I need to know how to handle future events. Please help.

I was raised to respect my parents, but this is a deal-breaker, and I’m seriously considering not including her in future events involving the children.

Deal-Breaker In New Mexico

JEANNE PHILLIPS

Your mother has made it clear that your wishes and your rules mean nothing to her — she does what she wants. Now it’s time to exercise your own good judgment and do what YOU want. If you feel she might do something that would place the children in harm’s way, by all means exclude her from events involving them.

Dear Abby, After three years together, my boyfriend and I decided to split up amicably once we graduated from college. I bought him an expensive engraved pocket knife as a graduation gift, but there was a delay and it didn’t

arrive until we had graduated and he’d returned to his home country in Europe.

I forwarded it to him with a card when I received it. Unfortunately, when the box arrived in his country a month later, it was empty except for the card. Someone had stolen my gift.

We have both filed claims with our countries’ post offices, to no avail. Should I buy him a new one, or has the moment passed? While the knife was expensive, it didn’t cost so much that I can’t afford another one, and he stressed that he didn’t expect a replacement. What’s the right thing to do?

The gift was intended as a memento of his graduation and our relationship, but it feels strange to repeat the exercise now that we’re broken up. What do you think?

Moment Has Passed

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Because your ex-boyfriend made clear that he doesn’t expect a replacement, let the matter rest. Allow his memories of college — and you — to be his mementos. They are what’s most important because they can’t be stolen.

Dear Abby, I have been with someone for seven years.

From the start, he said he wasn’t the jealous type. He says that when we are out, flirting is OK because we go home together, and if someone wants a kiss, I should give it. What do you think of this? I’m not for it.

Heartbroken In Florida

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So this man says it’s OK for both of you, I assume, to flirt and kiss others? What I “think” is that regardless of how long you have been together, this person isn’t interested in an exclusive relationship, and if that’s what you want, it may be time to find someone whose values more closely mirror your own.

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Dark Side of the Horse

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are always keenly aware of how other people see you and judge you, and yet you have a way of making this less important to yourself than it might be — possibly because you see how dangerous and even disastrous it can be for anyone to care too much about what others think of them. You know yourself well, and you know what you offer to the world around you, and you put great stock in that of your own accord.

You have quite a philosophical way of thinking about the world, and some would suggest that you are a natural-born poet — but that’s not something you take seriously. What matters to you is that you do the things you plan on doing and reap the rewards that you feel you have earned through hard work and dedication to a cause — or many.

Also born on this date are: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer; Eva Peron, Argentinian first lady; Gary Cooper, actor; Traci Lords, actress; Johannes Brahms, composer; Johnny Unitas, football player; Robert Browning, poet; Darren McGavin, actor; Anne Baxter, actress.

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, MAY 8 TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You must take care today that what you say isn’t misinterpreted. Much importance will be placed on what is communicated between the lines.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You are eager to break free from a perceived restriction, but selfassessment reveals you are the one responsible for how you feel right now.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You may not

have the time or the resources necessary to complete a certain project today, but you can ready yourself for tomorrow’s efforts.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You’re eager to give more to one who seems to be fighting a losing battle — but what are the possible gains? You may want to rethink your strategy.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You can win over a critic today by trusting your own sense of humor to reveal certain basic truths about who you are and what you’re doing.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You’re going to want to stand fast today when a friend is threatened. Together, you should be able to overcome anything heading your way.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Do not go back on your word today — even if it means you must sacrifice something of importance. You want to keep your reputation intact.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Certain desires come to the surface today and compel you to reach in a new direction — but you may be after something illusory.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You are able to avoid a crisis today by facing what comes your way without flinching. Others are eager to follow in your footsteps.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You’ll want to choose that option today that opens the door to more options — not the one that effectively limits you and stalls progress.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You benefit in unforeseen ways today from a chance encounter with a Cancer or Leo native. A demonstration shows you what is possible.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — It’s a good time for you to try something new — but take care that you’re not risking everything for something that is still uncertain.

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5 films worth seeing on a big screen right now

By ADAM GRAHAM The Detroit News

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Not to jinx it, but it’s been a pretty good year at the movies so far.

Audiences are feeling more comfortable returning to theaters, two years after the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on Hollywood and studio scheduling.

And it’s not just superheroes and blockbuster films that movie fans are embracing. The multiverse madness of “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” which hit the Top 5 at the box office earlier this month, is showing the drawing power of original filmmaking, movies that aren’t based on comic books or old sitcoms or dusty toys that have been sitting in someone’s basement since the Reagan administration, but rather fresh ideas born out of the human imagination.

What a concept!

Sure, “The Batman” is the No. 1 box office moneymaker of the year so far, and the new “Dr. Strange” film brings the Marvel Cinematic Universe back to theaters in early May. But there’s plenty happening beyond the franchises, and now is a particularly good time to go back to the movies, especially if it’s been a while since you’ve been to your local movie house. Here are five films currently in theaters that are well worth a night out.

“Everything Everywhere All at Once”: The title says it all. Michelle Yeoh stars in this brain-melter that feels like 10,000 movies happening concurrently, all on top of one another. Yeoh plays an overworked wife and mother who, during a routine tax audit, is introduced to the concept of the multiverse, where across infinite realities she’s tasked with saving the world. It sounds like a lot of mumbo jumbo but at its core it’s a movie about family and understanding, and it plays out in epic, hilarious, action-packed fashion. It’s a movie that’s worth seeing on the big screen, in a crowd full of people who also can’t believe what they’re watching. It’s a ride.

“The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent”: Nicolas Cage, master thespian or living meme? Well, why can’t he be both? In this meta comedy, Cage stars as himself, the most eccentric and absurd actor of his generation, and he reclaims his narrative by embracing his cult status and showing why there will only ever be one Nicolas Cage. With references See MOVIES C2

People tend to have strong opinions about mayonnaise, whether they love it or loathe it. After many years as a skeptic, I’ve come around to its merits.

Even so, it’s easy to buy a jar for one particular recipe or use and then have a lot of it left over, destined to languish in the refrigerator. (For the record, the USDA’s Food Keeper App recommends using open mayonnaise within 2 months.)

Here are few different ideas beyond spreading it inside your sandwich to help make a dent in your mayo supply. n Use on the outside of the sandwich. My grilled cheese sandwiches entered a whole new level of golden and crispy when I started spreading mayo on the outside of the bread instead of using another fat to griddle it in the skillet. The color and flavor can’t be beat, especially when compared to oil or, arguably, butter. Just keep an eye on the sandwich, as I have found the window for not burning the outside with mayo is smaller. n Slather it on poultry.

Much like sandwiches, the skin of your chicken or turkey will reach new heights when you incorporate mayo into whatever you coat the meat with. Here’s a tidbit from cookbook author and recipe developer Ali Slagle: “Mayo acts as a preventive coating to anything that you’d like to brown, including grilled steaks, skillet chicken thighs and grilled cheese. As mayonnaise cooks, its own (contentious) flavor dissipates, but because it’s a great carrier of flavor, any ingredients you stirred into it can cook and bloom without burning.” n Add it to dips and dressings. Mayo’s thick texture and tangy flavor make it a natural in all sorts of dips and dressings.

A tablespoon or two added to dips can lend heft and taste in a concentrated package. Similarly, consider using mayo as a binder in other dishes, such as crab cakes. n Make a cheater’s aioli. Before I upset anyone, let me say that I know aioli is a garlicky sauce similar to mayonnaise that’s popular in Spain and the Mediterranean. However, I’m not the first one to say that you can capture a similar vibe by starting with mayo. In the United States, aioli has come to also mean basically a flavored mayo. n Bake with it. You’ll find plenty of retro, or retro-inspired, chocolate cake recipes that call for mayo. After all, it includes eggs and oil, two primary baking ingredients. Fans will tell you it makes cakes even more moist and tender, too.

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The DVD turns 25 this year How you can celebrate its impact on entertainment media

By KARLA PETERSON The San Diego Union-Tribune

The “DVD” acronym originally stood for “Digital Versatile Disc.” The first DVD to ship more than 1 million units was “Titanic.” And when Disney released “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” on DVD in October of 2001, it sold 1 million copies. In one day.

These are just a few of the fun facts journalist Thomas K. Arnold unearthed for the two-part series on the 25th anniversary of the DVD that he wrote for the March and April editions of Media Play News, a publication devoted to the home-entertainment industry.

But the most stunning thing about the series is not the reminder that when Netflix founders Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph offered to sell the company to Blockbuster

for $50 million, Blockbuster turned them down. It is the fact that in this age of endless streaming entertainment, the DVD is still around and still worth celebrating.

“The connection has to be drawn. DVDs shaped our present entertainment habits. Seventy-eight percent of all the money spent on home entertainment is spent on streaming, and streaming wouldn’t have happened if not for the DVD,” said Arnold, Media Play News’ publisher and editor.

“The DVD is not nearly dead. It is still a huge business.”

There is no question that DVDs do not rule the homeentertainment landscape the way they did in, say, the banner year of 2000, when DVD players were in 13 million homes, consumers snapped up more than 182 million discs, and “Gladiator” and “X-Men” had first-week DVD sales of $60 million. Each.

According to the Digital Entertainment Group, sales

of DVDs (including Blu-ray and other formats) dropped by 19.5% in 2021, for nearly $2 billion in sales. Meanwhile, Grand View Research reported that in 2020, the global streaming market was valued at $50 billion.

But for an item roughly the size of a coaster, the 25-yearold DVD has had a massive impact on the way we entertain ourselves right now.

Arnold began covering the home-entertainment business when he joined Video Store Magazine in 1991, which gave him a front-row (recliner) seat for the DVD revolution.

And while it might be hard for stream-addicted viewers to imagine, his series reminds us that a revolution is exactly what it was.

Before Warner Home Video president Warren Lieberfarb spearheaded the development of a CD-inspired video disc to distribute movies, our home-entertainment lives were ruled by clunky VHS cassettes, chunky VHS players,

The DVD shifted everyone from renting to buying. You could never rent videocassettes by mail. They were too big and bulky and heavy.”

THOMAS K. ARNOLD Media Play News’ publisher and editor

and picky video-store rules.

The quality wasn’t great, the format wasn’t user-friendly, and late fees were a pain.

Did you remember to rewind? Did anybody?

When DVD players were rolled out at the Consumer Electronics Show in January of 1997, home-viewing was about to change in a seismic way. The digitized images were sharper, and the sound was richer. The discs were smaller and easier to store.

Thomas K. Arnold, editor of Media Play News that covers the home-entertainment industry, poses for a portrait alongside his DVD collection at his home on April 12 in Carlsbad, Calid. Arnold has been covering pop-culture since the late 70s and recently wrote about the 25th anniversary of the DVD for Media Play News. Adriana Heldiz / The San Diego Union-Tribune

Road rage is up Washington Post

Last year was the worst on record for road rage shootings in the United States, according to data released by Everytown for Gun Safety, which found that more than 500 people were shot and wounded or killed in more than 700 incidents. The monthly average of 44 people killed or wounded by gunfire on the roads was double the 2019 average.

There are probably two main factors driving the increase in shootings on the road, said Sarah Burd-Sharps, research director for Everytown. “One is that COVID-19 has brought all kinds of new stressors into our lives, and that’s playing out in terms of health behaviors that are quite frightening,” she said. The other, she added, is a spike in gun sales.

Experts say the rise in road-rage-related shootings is a quantifiable slice of an alarming problem. While it is difficult to determine the frequency of other kinds of road rage incidents — such as making obscene gestures, throwing objects or sideswiping or forcing a fellow driver off the street — anecdotal reports suggest that belligerent behavior on the road has generally increased during the pandemic.

“It’s like the Wild Wild West out there, and it’s just

unacceptable,” said Pam Shadel Fischer, senior director of external engagement with the Governors Highway Safety Association. The group manages the National Law Enforcement Liaison Program and frequently hears from officers about “angry drivers, road rage aggressiveness, people going incredibly high rates of speed and people being really unpleasant to each other,” she said. “It is very concerning.”

Retired police captain Greg Fremin, an adjunct criminal justice professor at Sam Houston State University in Texas, agrees. “Unfortunately, there’s been a serious increase,” he said. In the case of shootings, he said, “it’s a very hard crime to solve because it happens very quickly, unless there are witnesses that saw the license plate or vehicle.

People say, ‘Oh, we heard the shot, but we didn’t know where it came from.’”

Below, experts help us understand the reasons people erupt into road rage and offer strategies for keeping yourself and others calm, and for responding to angry drivers.

——— Humans have evolved to have a fight-or-flight response — a physical reaction to stressful events, said Ziv Cohen, a New York City-based forensic psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor

of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. “We have a brain that’s acutely wired for things that might provoke us into anger or fear or survival,” he said. “And we have very, very well-preserved neural mechanisms that are millions of years old to activate us very rapidly into a state of action — to either flee or to attack.”

That’s why, when we feel provoked on the road — say, someone cuts in front of us or has been tailgating us for 10 minutes — we sometimes respond in extreme ways that might seem irrational, Cohen said.

A research article published in the journal Social and Personality Psychology Compass in February 2021 about how to regulate road rage outlined the factors that go into generating it. In some cases, a person’s threshold for getting angry might simply be lower than other people’s, said co-author James Gross, a professor of psychology at Stanford University, where he directs the Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory.

“These are people who just have an angry temperament — you might say they’re very prone to getting angry, and it doesn’t take much to make them angry.”

The degree to which people experience a range of negative affective states, including anxiety and anger, is partially

Cheaper, too.

And as an incentive for consumers to buy the discs instead of renting them, studios began adding deleted scenes, blooper-reels and other extras.

The DVD helped make us the masters of our entertainment universe. We watched what we wanted to watch, when we wanted to watch it, as many times as we wanted to watch it. We bought bigger and bigger screens and invested in better sound systems.

And the studios were more than happy to give us more of that on-demand thing.

Speaking of in-demand, Arnold’s story recounts the origins of Netflix, which started because Hastings reportedly had to spend $40 in videostore late fees for an overdue copy of “Apollo 13.”Netflix began renting movies to customers by mail in 1998, postage-paid return envelope included. (According to Business Insider, Netflix mailed DVDs to about 2 million people in 2019.)

“The DVD shifted everyone from renting to buying. When the studios realized that consumers were buying everything, that made them digitize their libraries. And that enabled streaming,” Arnold said.

“You could never rent videocassettes by mail. They were too big and bulky and heavy.

Keep in mind that for 10 years, Netflix only rented discs by mail. DVD gave all of digital entertainment its start.”

Those small discs also introduced us to the bottomless rabbit-hole that is bingewatching.

When studios began putting entire seasons of TV shows on DVD, you could pop in one episode of “Friends,” and not leave your couch for an entire weekend. Long before we were

binging on “Bridgerton,” the DVD craze got us hooked on devouring TV in one greedy gulp.

“At one point in 2001, DVD TV shows accounted for 4 billion in consumer spending,” Arnold said. “I remember a good friend of mine told his family he had to work while they went on vacation, and he stayed home and watched all six seasons of ‘The Sopranos.’

I think that paved the way for people to sit down and watch multiple seasons in one session, which laid the groundwork for streaming.”

Since Media Play News covers all aspects of home entertainment, Arnold is fully steeped in the comforting conveniences of streaming.

But when he notices that everyone in his house is glued to a different screen, each person in their own separate room having their own solitary experience, he knows that convenience comes with caveats.

And as a pop-culture fiend who began publishing Kicks: San Diego’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazinein 1979, while he was still a student at San Diego State, Arnold is still a fan of the in-person, communal experience. The DVD gave us that, too.

The disc itself might be celebrating its silver anniversary, but that experience of firing up the living-room TV and sharing a new movie or TV show with the fellow fans in your life? That is pure entertainment gold.

“A lot of stuff generates buzz, but with streaming, it is more of an individual experience now. And it never lasts long,” Arnold said. “One week, everyone is talking about ‘Bridgerton,’ and the next week, it’s ‘The Mandalorian.’

And then, it’s over.”

Movies

appearance in ages. It’s a healthy way to tap into your primal side.

“X”: It’s Texas in the late ‘70s and a crew of young filmmakers sets out to make a porn film in a rented cabin. Yet they end up taking on more than they bargained for in writerdirector Ti West’s homage to “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and other slasher films of the day, which builds on moody atmosphere, inventive slayings and a killer double performance from star Mia Goth. It’s a gory horror film so it’s not for everybody, but fans of the genre will lap it up.

“Dog”: Channing Tatum codirects and stars as an Army Ranger tasked with delivering a military dog to the funeral of its handler in this comic drama that has laughs, heart and a big ol’ dog at its center. See, it doesn’t have to be complex or mind-blowing or involve multiverses of storytelling.

When executed the right way, the basic elements still deliver.

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genetic, Gross added. Still, not all people with irritable temperaments will display road rage, he said. And others, who don’t have any predisposition to anger, will end up in a stressful situation that provokes them so much, they’re suddenly raging.

During the pandemic, road rage probably worsened for a variety of reasons, Cohen theorized. People have experienced tremendous stress and economic hardship, and there’s been an increase in depression, anxiety and substance abuse. Combine all that, and it’s easy to see why some people have “less of an inner buffer for dealing with things that provoke them” on the road, he said.

to his work in “Leaving Las Vegas,” “Con Air,” “The Rock,” “The Wicker Man” and many more, this is a fun, surprisingly sweet-natured look at Hollywood, stardom and the oneof-a-kind career path of one of the wildest to ever do it.

“The Northman”: Picture “Hamlet” meets “Braveheart,” with Vikings. That’s the pitch for this brutal, bloodcaked epic starring Alexander Skarsgard as a ninth century warrior prince who watches as his father (Ethan Hawke) is beheaded by the sword of his brother and vows to avenge his death. Rich, poetic language and wicked violence ensues, as writer-director Robert Eggers (“The Witch,” “The Lighthouse”) cooks up a tale of destiny and vengeance and manages to coax Bjork into making her first on-screen

Channing Tatum and Lulu the Belgian Malinois in “Dog.” Hilary Bronwyn Gayle/SMPSP/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc.

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Whip up this simple salad Fig and goat cheese toppings make it a delicious, light dinner

By LINDA GASSENHEIMER Tribune News Service

‘Running on Veggies’ cookbook offers 100-plus vegetarian dishes

Among the “Running on Veggies” recipes is a spice-rubbed salmon, which is chock-full of omega-3 fatty acids that can help reduce inflammation after a long run. Gretchen McKay/Post-Gazette

Plant-powered recipes

By GRETCHEN MCKAY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Lottie Bildirici learned the hard way that it’s not enough to train and have goals to become a better runner. What you eat before and after workouts also has a dramatic impact on your body’s health and endurance.

After taking up running in her senior year of high school, following a bout with cancer, the Brooklyn native entered a string of races.

She got serious about the sport almost immediately and, in an effort to boost performance, became obsessed with eating only “healthy” foods. Yet rather than propel her new heights, the restrictive diet ended up backfiring.

The more pure her diet became, the more her young body broke down with multiple stress fractures.

Realizing she was on the wrong path, Bildirici — a baker and vegetarian since age 17 — decided to take a more mindful approach to her “so-called health obsession” as she entered college. She would view food not either as good or bad, but as fuel.

As she notes in her new cookbook “Running on Veggies” (Rodale, $25.99), the turnabout took significant effort, but restrictive eating eventually became intuitive eating, focused on nutrient-dense whole foods and lots of vegetables.

“I was determined to make it to the other side, emerge with a healthy body and mind,” she writes.

The book features more than 100 (mostly) vegetarian recipes aimed at helping you leverage your diet as a training tool — everything from fruit and vegetable smoothies and nourishing breakfasts to portable snacks, tasty sides, and plates and bowls that incorporate whole grains along with spices, nuts and sauces. A pantry guide for those new to plant-based eating, plus sample meal guides to get your started, adds to its appeal.

FROM CANCER PATIENT TO NUTRITION COACH Readers also learn the story of how the 27-year-old New York City resident found healing through running and food after being diagnosed at age 14 with Stage III Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Though she was safely in remission by her senior year, she still felt the stigma of being known as the sick girl. It was only after running a 5K to raise money for a local cancer charity that she finally felt completely healed. “On that starting line, I felt powerful, in control of my life, like I hadn’t before cancer,” she writes.

Years in the making, the book was born of the Instagram account

You can whip up this salad dinner in 5 minutes. I tasted a similar one at a local restaurant and was delighted to find a delicious, filling, light vegetarian supper dish.

I decided to re-create it at home.

Beets add an earthy flavor and color to the salad. You don’t have to cook raw beets. Cooked, ready-to-eat beets are available in the produce section. Or you can find frozen spiral cut beets in the market.

HELPFUL HINTS: n You can use any type of nuts

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SHOPPING LIST: To buy: 1 small package pecan halves, 1 bag washed, ready-toeat salad, 1 small package dried figs, 4 ounces goat cheese, 1 package croutons, 1 container cooked, ready-to-eat beets and 1 bottle reduced fat oil and vinegar dressing.

FIG AND GOAT CHEESE SALAD Recipe by Linda Gassenheimer

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It’s for anyone who wants to get in the kitchen and eat a little healthier.”

also cooking for her mentor leading up to the Olympic Trials in Los Angeles in February 2016.

“It was scary but a great opportunity,” Bildirici says. “So I gave it my all.”

That led to more opportunities with other Olympians, world champions and other professional athletes. In 2018, with her initial college dream of working in the music industry a distant memory, she became the North American Nutrition Coach for the Adidas Runners community, offering oneon-one nutrition counseling for runners. She was 24.

On a cold and rainy day that October, to mark 10 years since her cancer diagnosis, she also completed an Ironman competition in Louisville, Ky., to raise thousands for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

“It was important to not have cancer define me,” she says.

LOTTIE BILDIRICI

KEEPING IT SIMPLE

Author of the cookbook “Running on Veggies”

With her star rising, Penguin Books reached out to see if she wanted to do a book. Feeling she had all the right people in her corner, including world-class runners Colleen Quigley and Emma Coburn in addition to Goucher, she said yes. When she started writing it in 2020, the pandemic made it easy for her to meet deadlines, as well as experiment in the kitchen with new recipes.

Putting pen to paper in such an evergreen fashion, she says, also afforded her the opportunity to share her cancer story more widely for the first time, “without crying all the time.”

“So many people have gone through something like this,” she says. “And when I was sick, I just wish I had someone to look up to.”

While nutrient-rich vegetables play a starring role in her cookbook, Bildirici says “Running with Veggies” focuses not so much on what’s healthy or unhealthy but on the importance of whole foods in

and blog of the same name she started in 2013 to connect with other runners of the same mindset. A communications student at Fashion Institute of Technology at the time, she’d fallen down the rabbit hole of sports nutrition books, and wanted to share.

As she explains on a call from her apartment in New York City, “I wanted to understand the ‘why’ behind everything I was eating.”

Endurance athletes, especially females, had little guidance on food and nutrition at the time. To help other runners achieve their nutritional and athletic goals, she logged what she ate pre- and postworkout, along with simple recipes that her followers could make at home.

What she didn’t expect was that professional runners like Kara Goucher would soon be among her biggest fans.

Bildirici was sitting in her college cafeteria 10 years ago when

the Olympian first made a comment on one of her posts. She recalls taking a screenshot. “It was insane!” she says. “I just loved everything she embodied.”

Not long after, Goucher asked if she would do a cooking demo and talk nutrition at an upcoming runners’ retreat in Napa, Calif. Bildirici, who at the time was studying to become a holistic health coach at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition in Manhattan, of course said yes, even if she felt somewhat intimidated.

“She told me that she liked how I made healthy eating approachable,” she says.

The experience, Bildirici says, was life-changing. “I never felt more at peace in my life.”

In 2015, Goucher invited her to speak at a second retreat in Colorado, and oh, by the way, would she also be willing to come early and cook for her? Bildirici ended up not only staying in Boulder but

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2 ounces pecan halves (about 1 cup) 5 cups mixed washed, ready-to-eat salad 6 dried figs, cut in half 4 ounces goat cheese, broken into small cubes (about 3/4 cup) 1 cup croutons 1 cup cooked beets, cut into quarters 4 tablespoons reduced-fat oil and vinegar dressing Place pecans on a small baking sheet or aluminum foil and toast in a toaster oven or under the broiler for a couple of minutes. Watch to see that they do not burn.

Divide salad between 2 dinner plates. Place the figs, cheese, croutons, and beets over the salad. Drizzle the dressing on top.

Yield 2 servings.

Per serving: 544 calories (59% from fat), 36 g fat (10.2 g saturated, 16.6 g monounsaturated), 21.8 mg cholesterol, 15.8 g protein, 46.4 g carbohydrates, 9.9 g fiber, 412 mg sodium.

Linda Gassenheimer is the author of over 30 cookbooks, including her newest, “The 12-Week Diabetes Cookbook.” Listen to Linda on www.WDNA.org and all major podcast sites. Email her at Linda@DinnerInMinutes.com.

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By Stella Wilder Born Sunday, you are one of the foremost problem solvers born under your sign, and you outdo most other individuals in that arena simply because of your native tenacity and your refusal to let anyone else take the credit — or the blame — for what happens around you that you can in any way control.

Indeed, from an early age, you had the idea that you were destined to be “in charge,” but of what, exactly? That’s the question that you will spend the greater portion of your life trying to answer.

You are far more emotionally invested in all things — your work, recreation, other people, romance, etc. — than you let on, but a few who know you well know that you can be quite sensitive. You have been known to take stories very much to heart and to cry at happy endings. You like to think that you’re tough — and you are, when you have to be, but not always.

Also born on this date are: Harry S. Truman, U.S. president; David Attenborough, TV host; Don Rickles, comedian and actor; Rick Nelson, singer; Toni Tennille, singer; Sonny Liston, boxer; Ronnie Lott, football

player.

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

MONDAY, MAY 9 TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — News received today boosts your confidence, but you’ll still have to deal with those who are too used to saying “no” to you to say otherwise.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — A new partner brings new skills to a current endeavor — but even more importantly, a new elevated energy gives you a much-needed boost.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You are likely to receive help from someone in the shadows today, and you’ll want to learn who it is so you can return the favor.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — The most valuable resources must be the most carefully guarded at this time; you don’t want to find yourself running low at the wrong moment!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — It may seem to some that you are merely frittering away your time and, indeed, you have been more focused in the past. What is your end game?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You may have to navigate a tricky emotional current today

that threatens to drive you off course. It may be time to jettison some expectations.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — The requirements you face today are manageable, but there’s something going on that raises certain doubts. Talking with a friend is illuminating.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — That which appears before you today must be dealt with directly, and you must do all you can to avoid showing any sign of weakness.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You may be yearning for a “better” time, when, in fact, things are shaping up quite nicely for you.

Open your eyes and look around!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You may have difficulty choosing the right path today, as two in particular hold great promise for you. You must not weight yourself down.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You’ve been learning things from someone else for quite some time, and today you’ll have the chance to put those lessons to good use.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You may expect the road before you to be tortuous, but today’s journey can prove quite pleasurable.

What you seek is quickly found.

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The people and institutions that benefit from shame

By EMILY BALCETIS Washington Post

“The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation”

By Cathy O’Neil Crown. 255 pp. $27 I remember one awful day in middle school when I was sitting in front of a trombone player during band rehearsal.

With confusion first and burning embarrassment next, I felt the oil that musicians use to grease their instruments ooze down my hair, neck and face. In an act of imperious adolescent spite, that trombone player had opened his bottle and poured the oil on my head. I skipped lunch to shower in the gym locker room. I washed my hair three more times when I got home. Still, it took a week for the soap to cut the residue and for the caustic smell to seep out of my pores. It took far longer for the humiliation to fade.

In “The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation,” mathematician and journalist Cathy O’Neil investigates the people and institutions that benefit from creating and feeding private and public shame. O’Neil begins her argument by recounting an experience with a bodega owner who worked against his own bottom line by shaming her. The shopkeeper publicly questioned whether O’Neil should be buying ingredients to bake cookies, given the size of her body. She ended up bringing home the flour, sugar, chocolate chips and an unhealthy dose of disgrace.

“The Shame Machine” is not a diary of O’Neil’s grief but instead a data-driven, anecdotefueled narrative of the multitude of human experiences that are targets for ridicule and others’ reward. She vividly portrays the indignities of poverty, addiction, aging, dementia and other conditions we all may face but hope to avoid, and she shows how the pain

experienced by people with these afflictions can be used for others’ financial and social profits.

For example, she unearths how diet companies erroneously substantiate their fraudulent promises of body makeovers. She warns about the psychological damage that could come from programs like the Weight Watchers offshoot Kurbo, which pairs children as young as 8 with virtual diet coaches ready to judge their caloric consumption. Likewise, she illustrates the irony of “The Biggest Loser,” a television show that mockingly celebrates obese individuals’ efforts to lose weight. “Why are we celebrating her body?” one show host asked with fake concern on BuzzFeed TV. It “isn’t going to be awesome if she gets diabetes,” she offered, in a superficial attempt to disguise her disdain and disgust. Fat shaming, O’Neil argues, masquerades as concern-trolling, giving unsympathetic outsiders license to humiliate those with weight struggles and gain attention for themselves.

O’Neil quantifies the booming profits that come from ganging up on and calling out individuals who deviate from socially prescribed ideals. She probes the financial wins for the largely unregulated pharmaceutical supplement industry of shaming those who fear memory loss. She takes a historical look at Lysol, and the company’s past calls for women to douche with the product to avoid being considered disgusting and encouraging a husband’s infidelity. O’Neil also exposes cafeteria staff in public schools who stamp children’s hands when they cannot pay for lunch. They do this, they believe, to encourage parents to top off accounts before the ledgers are in the red.

These sad case studies do more than chastise enterprises that seek to profit from others’ suffering. O’Neil’s exposés also

evoke philosophical questions, including about the definition of “shame.” Is it shame if one individual embarrasses another in private, or does it require others to see the embarrassment? Can people without power shame those with it?

O’Neil offers answers to these questions and more, such as: How can people justify shaming when it hurts others so much? She suggests that shamers believe that others could have made different choices. If shamers think that people addicted to drugs and alcohol could have chosen another lifestyle, they do not have to accept the moral responsibility to help. If shamers think that those living without housing could find shelter if they tried harder, they don’t feel guilty when they ignore pleas for spare change or when they vote to withhold funding for social services and welfare programs.

And: What is the purpose of shame? O’Neil posits that shame is intended to change others’ behavior. In situations where values are agreed upon and violations are clear, she finds that shaming nudges individuals to abide by social norms. When O’Neil’s husband walked around New York City maskless during a spike in coronavirus transmission, for instance, a dose of shaming by a passerby got him forever after to mask up outside their home.

But I wonder if O’Neil has gotten it right. If shame is a mechanism for changing others’ choices, why do anti-vaxxers defy social pressures or even legal mandates to get the shot? Neighbors, strangers and politicians have sent subtle — and overt — messages shaming the choice to reject the needle.

O’Neil cites the Rev. Gabriel Salguero of Orlando, who advised his congregation, “In getting yourself vaccinated, you are helping your neighbor.”

He sermonized that those who didn’t were failing their moral

responsibility to care for others.

Despite hearing the message, vaccine holdouts remained.

So, is shame an effective vehicle for social change, even when it comes from someone you know and trust? In my take, not always. Shaming may not work in the case of these parishioners, or more generally when it is leveled against a group. You can deflect shame if you don’t see the finger wagging at you personally.

Maybe shame is meant to bring awareness. In Nigeria, O’Neil shares, the police’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) had a bad reputation, as did the country’s leaders who turned a blind eye to the group’s extrajudicial killings, corruption, abuse, rape and extortion. In the past five years, advocacy

An eerie exploration to uncover the origins of a 25-year-old mystery in the woods

By JIM CARMIN Star Tribune

“Passersthrough” by Peter Rock; Soho Press (233 pages; $26) Like Peter Rock’s 10 previous works of fiction, his new novel mixes characters who live on the margins of society with those in the mainstream.

His best-known book, “My Abandonment” (later adapted into a film called “Leave No Trace”), followed a father and daughter whose choice to live outdoors caused them difficulties. And his recent “The Night Swimmers” mixed memoir with fiction into a meditative and provocative remembrance of a life. Each of these had moments of mystery but each had captivating narratives from start to end.

His newest novel, “Passersthrough,” despite its promising beginning, evolves into a bizarre, otherworldly environment that never clearly seems resolved. “Passersthrough” starts with an audio capture transcription between Helen Hanson, a 36-year-old California woman, and her estranged 76-year-old father, Benjamin,

(Peter Rock’s) newest novel, “Passersthrough,” despite its promising beginning, evolves into a bizarre, otherworldly environment that never clearly seems resolved. who lives in Oregon. Helen’s mother died a few months earlier and among her effects Helen found 11 birthday cards addressed to Helen from her father, opened but withheld by her mother.

This discovery led her to reestablish a relationship with her father that fell apart 25 years earlier after they went camping together near Mt. Rainier. To facilitate this she installed a recording device in her father’s home so that he could respond to questions she sent him by fax. This need to communicate indirectly was because of Helen’s

emotional fragility caused, it’s inferred, by something her father may have done during that fateful trip.

During that camping excursion, we learn that 11-year-old Helen went suddenly missing for almost a week before being discovered at a cabin more than 100 miles from where her father reported her missing. Although there was no evidence of foul play, Helen moved in with her mother as her parents had separated shortly before this incident, likely because of another family trauma: the death of Helen’s younger brother a year earlier.

What follows could be an explanation of what happened between Benjamin and his daughter those many years ago but it’s uncertain.

By chance Benjamin is drawn into a small cast of characters who connect to the dead but are mostly unrelated to his son’s death or his daughter’s disappearance.

Among other eerie encounters he visits a place known as the murder house and another locale called Sad Clown Lake, which moves around to different locations, a lake where

campaigns demanded an end to SARS. Mainstream media picked up footage showing its officers tear-gassing protesters, shooting live ammunition and using water cannons. A SARS officer shot a young Nigerian man in front of a hotel and drove off in the civilian’s Lexus.

This, and other acts of police violence, led protesters to create hashtags unique to the events.

O’Neil says those hashtags were acts of public shaming of the federal government. But were they? Like O’Neil, I believe that protesters were using the hashtags to prompt international curiosity and concern and change the situation. Did they think that #EndSARS would make, for example, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari feel ashamed? I doubt

it. Change happened, yes. But through shame, perhaps not.

I’m also not convinced that shame is always intended for profit. Take the #MeToo movement. The hashtag turned the target of shame around: We could shame men, O’Neil writes, and reclaim a power that had been wielded against women. But were women using that power for monetary or social gain? I think not. Most people who added this hashtag to their Twitter posts did not name names and were not involved in litigation against attackers. Instead, the motives behind the trend were more likely compassion, anger or opportunity for catharsis. Nonetheless, O’Neil’s reflections on #MeToo serve as a reminder that collective action spurred by an individual’s experience of shame can transform social practices.

Beyond these points of contention, O’Neil offers a provocative takeaway. She argues that shame can serve as an indirect means for growth. “Shame lurks,” she writes, “in repressed thoughts and unspoken fear.”

If we confront “shame machines,” we will “be able to dismantle them.” If we acknowledge that mistakes happen, then experiencing shame may encourage us to recognize when we’ve transgressed, and if we can give ourselves and others the latitude to change, we can acknowledge it and apologize. We can then move past shame to forgiveness. When we talk about the ugly truths of our past offenses, we can begin to redress injustice and unfairness. Shame may be one tool, flawed and dangerous as it is, that can shed light on dark acts and catalyze real efforts to make change happen.

Emily Balcetis is the author of “Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World” and is an associate professor of psychology at New York University.

Dark dreams and weird things

By LAURIE HERTZEL Star Tribune

“What I Was Afraid Of” by Eric Hanson; Tartarus Press (237 pages, $52)

the bones of children from the murder house surfaced to talk to Benjamin.

It’s possible that “Passersthrough” is about memories linked to extrasensory perceptions not commonly experienced but present in some trauma victims. But then again it may not be. In the end the reader doesn’t have any clearer idea than Benjamin did about what happened to his children more than two decades earlier. And perhaps that is what Peter Rock wants.

Uncertainties and mysteries always surround death and disappearances. And while we may hope we find answers in stories, and in life, that’s not always what happens.

Jim Carmin is a writer in Portland, Ore.

Minneapolis’ Eric Hanson is well known as an illustrator. His instantly recognizable line drawings have appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone and other magazines and newspapers. He’s also illustrated the jackets of books by everyone from Kingsley Amis to John Waters — to himself, Eric Hanson.

The author of one previous book, Hanson has a collection of stories, “What I Was Afraid Of,” just out from Tartarus Press in England.

“You have come to the wrong place if you want any of it explained,” the narrator of the opening story says. “I was just a child.” And that is a good guide for the rest of the book.

These are stories out of the

Twilight Zone, dark dreams of weird and sinister happenings. Things don’t always add up; actions might not make sense.

In one story, the narrator sees a man on the street who had died years ago in a fire. In another, a little boy who lives alone dreams that he has parents — and when he wakes up, his dream has come true. (But that’s not necessarily a good thing.) And in another, a girl, “four, maybe five” has desires and appetites far beyond her years.

The last piece in the book, “What I Was Afraid Of,” is the only bit of nonfiction in the book. Part of a memoir, it begins, “Childhood, from what I can remember of it, is a routine boredom punctuated by anxiety.”

The stories in this book skip the boredom, head straight to the anxiety. A dark, disturbing yet undeniably fascinating read.

Publisher’s Weekly best-sellers Tribune News Service

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, April 16, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan.

5. The Paris Apartment. Lucy Foley. Morrow 6. The Recovery Agent. Janet Evanovich. Atria 7. The Sacred Bridge. Anne Hillerman. Harper 8. Shadows Reel. C.J. Box. Putnam 9. The Diamond Eye. Kate Quinn. Morrow 10. The Match. Harlan Coben. Grand Central

HARDCOVER FICTION

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Investigator. John Sandford. Putnam 2. Run, Rose, Run. Parton/Patterson. Little, Brown 3. Sea of Tranquility. Emily St. John Mandel. Knopf 4. What Happened to the Bennetts. Lisa Scottoline.

Putnam

1. The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak.

Shannon Bream. Broadside 2. Half Baked Harvest Every Day. Tieghan Gerard.

Clarkson Potter 3. Freezing Order. Bill Browder. Simon & Schuster

4. Celebrate with Babs, Barbara Costello. Alpha 5. Atlas of the Heart. Brene Brown. Random House 6. Arrive and Thrive. Brady/ Foutty/Wooten.

McGraw Hill 7. Brighter by the Day. Robin Roberts. Grand Central 8. I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet. Shauna Niequist. Zondervan 9. Hello, Molly! Molly Shannon. Ecco 10. Recessional. David Mamet. Broadside

MASS MARKET 1. Nine Lives. Danielle Steel. Dell 2. Ocean Prey. John Sandford. Putnam

3. 1st Case. Patterson/Tebbetts. Grand Central 4. Dark Night in Big Rock. Johnstone/Johnstone.

Pinnacle 5. Any Sunday. Debbie Macomber. Harlequin 6. Hideaway. Nora Roberts. St. Martin’s 7. Sooley. John Grisham. Anchor 8. Tom Clancy: Target Acquired. Don Bentley.

Berkley 9. Black Ice. Brad Thor. Pocket 10. Daylight. David Baldacci. Grand Central

TRADE PAPERBACK 1. Verity. Colleen Hoover. Grand Central

2. Reminders of Him. Colleen Hoover. Montlake 3. The Simple Comforts Step-by-Step Instant Pot Cookbook. Jeffrey Eisner. Voracious 4. The Love Hypothesis. Ali Hazelwood. Berkley 5. People We Meet on Vacation. Emily Henry.

Berkley 6. Chainsaw Man, Vol. 10. Tatsuki Fujimoto. Viz 7. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba (coloring book). Koyoharu Gotouge. Viz 8. The Silent Patient. Alex Michaelides. Celadon 9. The Family Plot. Megan Collins. Atria 10. Komi Can’t Communicate, Vol. 18. Tomohito Oda. Viz

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Skip going to the doctor during the pandemic?

By MARIN WOLF The Dallas Morning News

DALLAS — The shoulder pain and dizziness started before the pandemic, but Shane Hardin, 46, didn’t think much of it.

Aches and pains come with the territory of getting older, and Hardin’s job in residential construction can be draining.

The spread of COVID-19 across North Texas dissuaded him further from seeing his general practitioner for a check-up.

For more than two years, patients like Hardin pushed off routine health care visits as offices closed to non-emergency cases and the threat of coronavirus loomed. It could take years before the health care system sees the full effects — both physical and financial — of delayed care, North Texas doctors say.

When Hardin sat in a new doctor’s office in September after more than a year since his last physical, he was shocked at the stern warning: He needed to see a cardiologist, and fast.

The doctor “was a little incredulous that I had not been referred to a cardiologist earlier,” Hardin said. His family’s history of heart disease was worrying enough to warrant an immediate trip to a specialist.

Six weeks later, Hardin was in an operating room for quintuple bypass surgery.

Hardin will never know if his heart condition would have been caught at a check-up he missed in 2020 or early 2021.

But his story fits an alarming

trend of medical problems caught in later, more severe stages because of interrupted preventive care.

“We’re now starting to see patients coming through, with a higher proportion of patients who have a more advanced stage of cancer diagnosis,” said Dr. John Sweetenham, associate director for clinical affairs at UT Southwestern’s Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Routine procedures done to catch cancer and other serious illnesses early in their progression were not front of mind for patients navigating the pandemic. For example, Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center saw a nearly 20% decline in the number of people coming to the center for mammograms, Sweetenham said.

One study of more than 358,000 patients in Ontario, Canada, published in the Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, found an immediate decline in the average cancer rate at the start of the pandemic — but that’s not necessarily a good thing. The researchers estimated the presence of 12,601 cancer cases that went undetected from March 15 to Sept. 26, 2020, in the Ontario area.

Time is critical in the treatment of serious illnesses. Ignoring symptoms or routine preventive visits can limit the treatment options as a disease progresses. “The best opportunity to cure any cancer is when it’s at a very early stage,”

Sweetenham said. “Each time that the stage increases, you, to some extent, lose that opportunity for care.”

THE FINANCIAL BURDEN Though most doctors’ offices reopened to non-emergency visits after the first few months of the coronavirus, some are just starting to catch up to prepandemic schedules.

Texas Health Resources obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Sheila Chhutani said her practice first rescheduled pap smear appointments by six to eight weeks in 2020, which snowballed into interruptions for months afterward.

Pandemic-related financial difficulties also got patients off their regular health care schedule. Some of Chhutani’s patients lost their jobs or were furloughed, leading to financial discomfort and, sometimes, the loss of insurance.

With more advanced disease comes higher costs for both patients and health care systems.

A 2016 study of breast cancer patients published in American Health & Drug Benefits found that, on average, insurance companies allowed costs per patient of around $82,000 in the first year of treatment for patients with stage I/II tumors, compared to nearly $135,000 for patients with stage IV tumors.

In Texas, which has the highest rate of people without insurance of any U.S. state, higher costs leave patients vulnerable to life-altering bills. Even for

Routine procedures done to catch cancer and other serious illnesses early in their progression were not front of mind for patients navigating the pandemic. Tero Vesalainen/Dreamstime/TNS

patients with insurance, Sweetenham said, co-pays can cause serious financial burden.

A January study by The Commonwealth Fund, which supports independent health care issue research, found that Texans in 2020 spent more than 14% of the state’s median income — around $9,300 — on premium contributions and deductibles.

MENTAL AND PHYSICAL BARRIERS In addition to putting off preventive screenings, doctors like Sweetenham noticed patients at the beginning of the pandemic were less likely to come in for common illnesses.

Mental and physical roadblocks kept some at home.

Nicholas Saunders, 24, said before the pandemic, he’d go to the doctor around three to four times a year for check-ups and sick visits. Fear of COVID-19 exposure made him hesitant to see his primary care provider.

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addition to plenty of veggies.

She also is a huge fan of keeping it simple, with recipes that can be prepared quickly using very basic ingredients.

She doesn’t want to spend her entire day in the kitchen and knows you don’t, either.

As such, “I’m not going to ask you to head to the specialty health store for teff powder. I know where everyone is coming from. If it’s not easy, you’re not going to cook it.”

Breakfast recipes include one for overnight oats with a mixed berry chia jam that’s perfect for people who are bleary-eyed in the morning, or are traveling to a race but only have access to a hotel mini fridge. You’ll also find a gut-healthy brown rice bowl topped with kimchi, avocado and fried egg, and peanut butter and banana pancakes made with oat and almond flours.

For drink lovers, there’s an entire chapter on every runner’s quick-fix beverage — smoothies — but with this added nutritional boost: All include at least one vegetable and a healthy fat like avocado or tahini to balance the flavor and texture.

Packed with mouth-watering photos, the book also serves up more than a dozen

During the months of lockdown, “I had regular illnesses, like the flu and stomach bug,” the Collin College student said.

“I might have gone in for treatment had it not been during a pandemic, but I chose not to and tried to self-treat at home.”

Down in Austin, Robin Orlowski, 43, didn’t have the choice of whether to visit her neurologist. Her epilepsy is controlled by medication that requires regular dosing adjustments depending on her weight, which can’t be measured during a telehealth visit.

While she was nervous about being exposed to the coronavirus at her doctor’s office, her biggest hurdle was finding a way there. Orlowski’s local bus route reduced its frequency, leaving her with limited options.

“I have people who can drive me, and normally, outside of a pandemic, you can depend on them,” she said. “But they live in other houses and since in a

pandemic you have to be isolated from others, they couldn’t come and get me when the bus wasn’t reliably running.”

Most Texas cities and towns have returned to pre-pandemic operations, making it easier for people like Orlowski to make it to their appointments. The implementation of vaccines and currently low COVID-19 case counts eased the minds of people like Saunders, who made a mad dash in the last few weeks to catch up on appointments he missed.

For those who haven’t yet seen their physicians and dentists, it isn’t too late to get back on a regular health care schedule, Sweetenham said. The sooner patients get back into their routine check-ups, the better.

“If you have delayed a screening, or if you have put off having a symptom or a sign checked out, now is a good time to return and get that screening test done,” he said.

almond butter, fresh berries and toasted almonds.

Serves 1.

cool slightly.

Drain pasta, lightly rinse and transfer to a large bowl.

Add the green sauce, roasted broccoli and baby spinach to the pasta and toss together.

Garnish with chopped mint, parsley and cilantro, and sprinkle with almond Parmesan, if using, Serves 4.

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Almond Berry Overnight Oats. Gretchen McKay/Post-Gazette

grain and noodle bowls enhanced with nuts, spices and sauces, and almost as many “plates” — a category that includes everything from tacos to vegan meatloaf to veggie burgers and even a couple of fish dishes.

Because all work and no play is no fun, the cookbook also includes portable “adventure snacks” you can stick in your backpack to fuel all different kinds of activities — think bars, trail mix and no-cook date bites. Her plantbased desserts are made with natural sweeteners like maple syrup and dates, which can help runners replace their glycemic stores after a workout.

All, Bildirici says, reflect what you might find in her kitchen or on her dinner table on any given night. It’s also representative of how she cooks for her athlete clients, “and even when I’m having people over for dinner,” she says.

And if you’re not particularly athletic? The book is for you, too, because good nutrition isn’t just for runners and other athletes. It plays an important role in everyone’s lives.

“It’s for anyone who wants to get in the kitchen and eat a little healthier,” she says, even if you don’t follow the recipes to a T. People are always looking for that magic superfood, Bildirici says, but it’s really about a holistic lifestyle. Part of that is changing the way you think about food and your relationship with it.

“You have to reach for the right foods, and have them ready in your fridge to go.”

ALMOND BERRY OVERNIGHT OATS PG tested Once you make the berry jam, this carbohydrate-rich recipe takes a minute to prepare for the next morning.

Soaking the oats overnight makes them easier to digest, because it helps break down their natural enzymes. I used unsweetened almond milk and a combination of raspberries and blueberries for the jam.

For oats 1 cup unsweetened nut milk 1/2 cup old-fashioned rolled oats 1 teaspoon chia seeds 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract Pinch sea salt

1 tablespoon unsweetened natural almond butter, for garnish Raspberries and blueberries, for garnish Chopped toasted almonds, for garnish For jam 2 cups fresh or frozen mixed berries 1/2 lemon, zested 3 tablespoon fresh lemon juice 1 navel orange, zested and juiced 1/4 cup chia seeds 1/2 cup water Prepare jam: In a small saucepan, combine berries, lemon zest and juice, orange zest and juice and chia seeds.

Add water and bring to boil.

Reduce heat and allow to simmer for 20 minutes, stirring frequently.

Remove from heat and mash fruit with a potato masher or wooden spoon.

Allow to cool for 20 minutes, or until mixture is thickened.

Store in an airtight container in fridge for up to one week.

Prepare oats: In a small saucepan, heat nut milk until simmering. Meanwhile, place 2 tablespoons jam in a pintsize mason jar.

Top with oats, chia seeds, cinnamon, vanilla and salt.

Pour warm milk over the top and stir to combine. Cover with a lid and place in the refrigerator overnight.

Before serving, stir the oat mixture again, then top with

PG tested Pasta is a favorite dish for runners because it’s a good source of carbohydrates.

This recipe swaps traditional wheat pasta for penne made from brown rice. Instead of tomato sauce, it’s topped with a fresh-tasting chimichurri-like green sauce. It’s fantastic.

To make almond Parmesan, blend ½ cup raw almonds, ½ teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast and ½ teaspoon garlic powder in mini food processor until finely ground.

For sauce 1 cup packed spinach 3 garlic cloves 1/2 cup raw walnuts 3 tablespoons each fresh parsley, cilantro and mint 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar 2 tablespoons water 1/2 teaspoon sea salt Freshly ground pepper For pasta 8-ounce package brown rice penne, lentil penne or any plantbased pasta 1 1/2 pound head of broccoli, cut into florets 1 tablespoon avocado oil 1-2 cups baby spinach 2 tablespoons each roughly chopped flat-leaf parsley, cilantro and mint, for garnish 1/2 cup almond Parmesan, optional Make sauce: In the carafe of a high-speed blender, blend spinach, garlic, walnuts, herbs, olive oil, vinegar and water until well combined.

Season with salt and pepper, then set aside.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil, add the pasta and cook for 2 minutes less than the package instructions advise.

Meanwhile, line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper. On the prepared baking sheet, toss the broccoli with avocado oil and season with salt and pepper. Roast for 15 minutes, tossing halfway through, until golden brown and crisp-tender. When finished roasting, remove broccoli from oven and allow to

CHILI-SPICED SALMON WITH MANGO SALSA PG tested Professional runner Kara Goucher contributed this family-favorite recipe for salmon. “It fuels my body with good protein and lots of healthy fats,” she writes, making it an excellent dinner choice after a hard workout session. The mango salsa is also terrific with tortilla chips.

For salsa 1 mango, pit removed, peeled and diced 1/2 medium red onion 1/2 red bell pepper, cored, seeded and diced 1 jalapeno, seeded and finely diced 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice Sea salt to taste For salmon 1 teaspoon garlic powder 1 teaspoon onion powder 1 teaspoon sweet paprika 1 teaspoon chili powder 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin 1/2 teaspoon sea salt 4 4-6 ounce skin-on salmon filets Coconut rice, to serve Make salsa: In medium bowl, combine mango, onion, bell pepper, jalapeno, cilantro and lime juice. Season with salt and set aside to marinate while you prepare the fish.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

In small bowl, mix together garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, chili powder, cumin and salt.

Place filets on the prepared baking sheet and sprinkle each one with the spice rub.

Bake for 15 to 20 minutes on the middle rack, or until fish is opaque, cooked through and flakes easily with a fork.

Place filets on a serving platter and top with mango salsa. Serve with coconut rice.

Serves 4.