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Video sought in stun-gun probe

By Bill Williams, Kate Lisa & Natasha Vaughn Columbia-Greene Media

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Jason Jones of Catskill.

Catskill Police station at 422 Main Street, where a bizarre incident left a man burned.

CATSKILL — A village man who was engulfed in flames last weekend after Catskill police officers used a stun gun on him inside the Main Street police station has prompted investigators to look into video footage of the incident.

Jason Jones, 29, of Catskill, who was originally taken to Albany Medical Center, is being treated at the Clark Burn Center

at SUNY Upstate Medical University Hospital in Syracuse, where he remained in serious condition as of Friday afternoon.

“His condition is very serious,” Jones’ attorney, said Kevin Luibrand, of Luibrand Law Firm PLLC in Latham, on Friday.

Representatives with the Clark Burn Center did not return calls Friday for updates about Jones’ condition.

Jones walked into the Catskill Police station, at 422 Main St. at

about 1:30 a.m. last Saturday, Oct. 30.

He allegedly doused himself with hand sanitizer, and then became confrontational with the officers who were on duty, Catskill Police said Friday.

The county District Attorney’s Office is investigating the incident, Greene County District Attorney Joseph Stanzione said Friday.

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COs want law to slow prison closings

By Kate Lisa Johnson Newspaper Corp.

Top corrections officers are hopeful a new law that prohibits double-bunked housing in state prisons will help slow pending prison closures and reduce record-high numbers of violent attacks on staff.

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill sponsored by Assemblyman Billy Jones, D-Chateaugay Lake; and Sen. Luis Sepúlveda, D-Bronx; late Wednesday that prohibits the practice of double bunking within the state’s 50 correctional facilities.

Double bunking increases the number of inmates housed in a medium secure dormitory typically designed to accommodate up to 50 incarcerated people to between 60 and 90 men or women — impacting proper supervision and inmate and officer safety.

“Double-bunking is an outdated and dangerous practice that has absolutely no place in our current prison system,” Jones said Thursday in a statement. “For 20 years, I worked as a corrections officer and experienced firsthand the stress and painstaking hard work this job entails.”

Sen. Daphne Jordan, R-Halfmoon, co-sponsored the bipartisan legislation to end doublebunking.

“Double bunking inmates makes it very difficult for correction officers to observe an area and needlessly exposes them to

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Greene Correctional Facility in the Greene County town of Coxsackie.

increased danger,” Jordan said in a statement Friday. “And, in the era of COVID, double bunking inmates makes little sense from a public health perspective. With fewer inmates in state

facilities, DOCCS should spread the inmate population out, so our brave public safety professionals aren’t exposed to more violence and unsafe working conditions.”

Officials with the state Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent Association, the union that represents New York’s 18,000 correction officers, said Thursday they hope the law will

help spread incarcerated people across facilities and slow future closures of medium- and minimum-security facilities.

“We’re hoping a well spacedout inmate population will be

a much safer model and safer working conditions where I don’t think you’d have to close any facility,” NYSCOPBA President Michael Powers said Thursday. “We deem this as quite a victory, and we’re hopeful, quite frankly,” he added.

“Instead of a 60-to-1 [inmate to officer] ratio in a housing unit, we can decrease that to 30 or 33 in each housing unit can create a much safer rehabilitation model and create safer working conditions for our members.

We’re grateful for Gov. Hochul for signing this into law. We appreciate our dialogue with her as of late.”

Last week, Hochul confirmed she will follow her predecessor’s plans and announce the closure of multiple facilities this year.

“We need to stop the [former Gov. Andrew] Cuomo-era policy of continually closing correctional facilities,” Sen. Jordan said.

Language in the Legislature’s adopted 2021-22 state budget permits the governor to permanently close facilities with a 90-day notice through the end of March 2022, meaning the closures must be announced by Dec. 31.

“What I found is that there are many facilities, particularly upstate, that are only half full,” she said Oct. 27. “We will be looking at a scaling-down initiative.”

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Judge denies bail in Baldner case

By Bill Williams Columbia-Greene Media

Trooper Christopher Baldner, who continues to be held without bail in the Ulster County Jail.

KINGSTON — An Ulster County judge denied bail Thursday for a state trooper from Greene County who is being held on murder and other charges.

Christopher Baldner, 43, of Durham is charged with second-degree murder, second-degree manslaughter and first-degree reckless endangerment in an indictment handed up by an Ulster County grand jury Oct. 27.

Baldner is accused of using his state police vehicle to ram a car that was carrying four members of the Goods family, resulting in the while in

pursuit of the minivan, being driven by Tristan Goods, on the New York State Thruway in Ulster County, in December 2020. The goods’ vehicle flipped over, resulting in the death of 11-year-old Monica Goods.

Ulster County Judge Bryan Rounds denied the request from Baldner’s lawyer, John Ingrassia, to set bail at $100,000 and confine Baldner to house arrest.

State prosecutors asked to keep Baldner in custody because they said he posed a flight risk.

Goods’ mother, Michelle Surrency, spoke at a demonstration outside the

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“I just want everyone to know we can’t give up our fight. He got remanded today, that’s where he deserves to be. My child doesn’t have the option,” she said.

About 100 people attended the demonstration that followed the bail hearing.

Baldner has been held in the Ulster County Jail since his arrest on October 27.

A state police spokesman said Baldner has been suspended without pay.

Also speaking after court was Tom Mungeer, president of the state troopers’ union.

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almost two decades. He has a family, he has kids, he owns a house. He’s not going anywhere. So I believe that the bail reduction act of 2019 has worked for everybody, but in this instance it did not work for my trooper,” Mungeer said.

Tim Dymond, President of the New York State Police Investigators Association also issued a statement on Thursday.

“The decision to hold Trooper Christopher Baldner without bail is unconscionable. Each day New York State courts release hundreds of See BAIL A2

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intoxicated when he walked into the police station, police said.

“It’s a horrible incident to have happened in Catskill,” Catskill Police Chief David Darling said Friday.

The Catskill Police station is equipped with security cameras inside and outside the building, Darling said.

“We understand there are video recordings of what happened,” Luibrand said. “We’ve requested the preservation of the video recording. I expect some opportunity to review it.”

Darling declined to comment further on the situation, citing the ongoing investigation being handled by an outside agency.

Luibrand also declined to speak about the details of the investigation.

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Hochul’s office refused Thursday to answer multiple questions about which prisons are targeted to be closed, and when.

Powers and other union members are kept in the dark about future closings. Members typically learn of facility closings when DOCCS makes a public announcement.

DOCCS spokesman Thomas Mailey responded with an identical statement the department has provided to media outlets across the state about potential closures since June about the department carefully reviewing operations at its 50 correctional facilities for possible closure.

“This review is based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to physical infrastructure, program offerings, facility security level, specialized medical and mental health services, other facilities in the area to minimize the impact to staff, potential reuse options and areas of the state where prior closures have occurred in order to minimize the impact to communities,” Mailey said.

The department will offer impacted employees voluntary transfer or priority employment at other facilities and state agencies following a closure, and does not anticipate related layoffs.

Hochul’s office referred additional questions to DOCCS’s statements.

Fourteen of the 20 state prisons and correction facilities closed over the last decade, have taken place upstate, or north of Dutchess County.

Additional closures were expected to be announced in June under former Gov. Andrew Cuomo with the goal to shutter facilities by Labor Day, but an announcement never came.

Cuomo left office in disgrace Aug. 23.

The closing of facilities will mean fewer available mediumsecurity beds. Union reps hope the new law will prevent the department from shuttering more facilities, or at least delay

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dangerous, violent criminals back on to the streets; however, a New York State Trooper, who poses no flight risk or danger to the community, is being held without bail,” Dymond said.

“It is beyond comprehension what would provoke this decision other than a judge bending to the significant pressure of elected officials and the media. Ultimately, the courts will decide Trooper Baldner’s

investigation,” he said. “I don’t know the nature of their investigation and I don’t want to comment on that at this point.”

Stanzione said his agency has investigators on staff who are handling the case.

“We’re reviewing the situation, what took place, why it took place, who was involved — we’re looking into all of it,“ Stanzione said.

Stanzione would not comment on the potential filing of criminal charges against anyone involved in the incident, saying the county District Attorney’s office is in the early stages of the investigation.

“We’re looking at all of the evidence, and information that is available to us,” Stanzione said.

The investigation will include security camera video and interviews from the parties involved.

Jones’ parents and much of his family are by his side as he fights to recover from his serious injuries, his attorney said.

Jones’ family told Luibrand they will not make a public statement at this time.

“The only timeline we’re on right now with the family is to get him recovered — that’s all the family is focused on,” Luibrand said. “They’re focused on what’s important to them right now, which is the health of their son.”

Jones is a 2010 Catskill High School graduate.

He was a star athlete on the basketball and track teams, former Catskill coach Doug Lampman said. Lampman declined further comment.

Jones threw shotput and discus, and in May 2009, he won the Patroon Conference title in shotput and discus, according to The Daily Mail archives.

Catskill Central School District superintendent Ronel Cook said late Friday afternoon he was informed about the incident.

“Mr. Jones was a star

multisport student-athlete, who excelled in track and basketball,” Cook said in a statement Friday. “I do not know all of the particulars regarding this unfortunate situation. Nevertheless, Mr. Jones is a Catskill graduate.

Anyone who graduates from this fine institution is considered a member of the Catskill family. I wish Mr. Jones a speedy recovery and our thoughts and prayers are with him.”

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closures until next year.

Violent crime spiked in cities across the state and nation in 2020 and 2021, which union members said could cause the prison population to increase.

“They could bring back the double-bunking scenario, but this law statutorily says they can’t do it,” Powers said of the need for officials to take their time in closing any facility.

Needing additional facilities to remain open to accommodate an increasing number of incarcerated people is not a concern for the department as officials weigh additional prison closures.

“Most of the double bunks have already been taken down and the incarcerated population continues to decline,” Mailey said.

While floating additional prison closures last week, Hochul also noted a need to ease the burden on the local economy and job loss when a state prison permanently shutters.

“The governor acknowledges the violence in our correction facilities and recognizes the need for change,” Powers said.

“We’re a player in the room, and we were not even a player in the room [under Cuomo]. We hope to be in this administration, or at least a voice to be heard.

“The governor sees it, these legislators don’t.”

population in our correctional facilities is a top priority for the department,” Mailey said. “As a result of the drastic decline in the incarcerated population, in 2020, DOCCS removed approximately 3,000 top bunks from medium security facilities — making all those dormitories 50-person maximum capacity and allowing for greater social distancing.”

The practice was also largely eliminated from state prisons last year to reduce the spread of COVID-19.

“The department maintained a very small number of double bunks in certain medium-security facilities,” Mailey said. “Over the next 90 days, DOCCS will evaluate these bunks and anticipates minimal impact.”

The department would not say which facilities have double bunks or provide exact numbers of the remaining beds.

“As noted above, a very small number of double bunks remain and the department anticipates minimal impact in following the law,” Mailey said.

to attract and retain corrections staff, leading to shortages and officers working double or triple shifts.

“In terms of the alarming rising violence happening in our facilities – from the local Brookwood Secure Center to Rikers Island – the state needs to LISTEN to public safety professionals walking the corridors,” said Sen. Jordan, who is urging state officials to increase full-time prison staff to safer ratios. “Their realworld frontline public safety experience is invaluable.”

Tuesday’s elections showed strong support for Republicans — potentially indicating a “red wave” in next year’s 2022 midterm races, which union officials said they hope will push public support away from progressive criminal justice reforms.

The law prohibiting doublebunking is a rare criminal justice reform that appeases both the right and left.

Hochul, a centrist Democrat running for re-election in 2022, said during a webinar Thursday she will support moderate criminal justice reforms going forward, but stressed the need to support law enforcement and keep police fully funded.

“I am hard-wired to know my responsibility as governor is to doing everything I can to work with our local governments whether the city of New York, the city of Buffalo or the city of Watertown to protect the people in their homes and on the streets as they head to their businesses,” she said. “Otherwise, we will not have the full recovery we need.”

Union members will push lawmakers to pass legislation next session to conduct a study on the violence in state correctional facilities. Legislation to conduct the study has failed for several years, and stalled in the Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee this session.

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Incarcerated people are housed in dorm settings or cells designed for up to two individuals.

The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision authorized the double bunking of incarcerated New Yorkers in the 1980s as the state prison population swelled to its peak of 72,773 people in 1999.

The total incarcerated population in state correctional facilities is 31, 501 people as of Thursday, including a reduction of more than 12,700 people since Jan. 1, 2020 and the lowest incarcerated population since 1984.

The population has declined 56% since the department high in 1999.

“The safety and security of staff and the incarcerated

Violent incidents within prison facilities against staffers and other inmates continues to hit historic levels. Officials hope prohibiting double bunking will be a step to ease the attacks.

DOCCS reports 939 attacks from incarcerated people on prison staff in 2021 as of Monday — on pace to meet or surpass 1,047 attacks in 2020, an all-time high.

Violent attacks between incarcerated people are also on the rise, with 1,204 reported incidents in 2020.

“There is no consequence for violent activity in prisons anymore,” Powers said.

The department reported 99 attacks on staff statewide within the last month.

“The safety and well-being of our staff and incarcerated individuals is our top priority,” Mailey said. “The department has zero tolerance for violence within our facilities and anyone engaged in misconduct will be disciplined. If warranted, incidents will be referred for outside prosecution.”

DOCCS continues to struggle

guilt or innocence regarding the tragic accident that occurred, but in the interim, it would seem that he is being held more as a political prisoner than as a citizen presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.” Dymond said.

The New York State Troopers Police Benevolent Association is providing legal representation for Baldner.

Second-degree murder carries a maximum sentence of 25 years to life in prison.

Baldner’s next court appearance is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 18.

A judge denied bail on Thursday for Trooper Christopher Baldner, who is being held on murder charges.

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Access to free COVID testing a struggle

By Sam Raudins Columbia-Greene Media

Nearly two years in the COVID-19 pandemic, some uninsured New Yorkers might struggle to find a free test as locations become more limited.

In both Columbia and Greene counties, 94% of residents had health insurance as of 2019, according to Healthy Capital District Initiative, a nonprofit that seeks to increase access to health services. And while the government will often foot the bill for testing uninsured individuals, access to those free tests might not be as widespread in the Twin Counties as it once was.

The number of tests conducted in Columbia County has generally decreased since a spike in September, according to data from the state Department of Health: on Sept.

22, 642 people were tested, and as of Nov. 3, 387 were tested. In Greene County, 378 were tested on Sept. 23, while 255 were tested Nov. 3.

According to the New York State Department of Health, tests at sites run by the state are free of cost, but tests from local governments, private

companies including pharmacies and medical practices or nonprofit organizations might charge a fee.

“Under the federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act, the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act, and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, a testing site can receive reimbursement for fees associated with testing uninsured individuals,” according to the Department of Health.

Without insurance, costs for COVID-19 tests can range anywhere from $85 to $175 out-of-pocket. But some locations and municipalities in the area are offering free testing.

Greene County is offering free COVID-19 rapid testing with its Emergency Services Mobile Command Center.

Testing is offered only to people with symptoms, people who have been in contact with a positive person seven to 10 days after contact and students kindergarten through 12th grade who return to school after positive contact or symptoms, according to Greene County Public Health.

The mobile unit sets up in different communities in the county to offer services.

Testing is not available for work, travel or voluntary reasons, Greene County Public Health said. The rapid tests give results in 15 minutes.

The converted recreational vehicle is equipped with four testing machines and is staffed by public health’score medical volunteers.

The tests, ID NOW tests created by Abbott, amplify the viral RNA of a nasal swab hundreds of millions oftimes to make the virus detectable, according to Abbott’s website.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, point-of-care tests such as ID NOW have a “moderate to high” test sensitivity.

“ID NOW is at the forefront of molecular testing technology because of the isothermal process by whichthe virus is quickly extracted and magnified at a constant temperature,” John Hackett Jr., divisional vice president of applied research and technology for Abbott’s Diagnostics business, said in a statement. “This technology is so important when testing in

hotspots and in decentralized health care settings, wheresometimes the lab isn’t an option.”

The department of health said the mobile unit would be set up in East Durham Monday at the Milk Run and in Catskill at the Lumberyard Wednesday.

The Columbia County Department of Health is only testing people associated with positive cases the department is tracking, the department said. Jack Mabb, director of the Department of Health, said if people develop symptoms after being exposed at work, the department will also test them, and all testing is free.

“We start with a positive ... and they tell us who their contacts are,” Mabb said.

Walgreens, located at 15 Coleman St., in Chatham provides free drive-through testing for people ages 3 and up, according to the pharmacy.

Testing options include PCR tests, which take longer for results as labs test for genetic material from the virus, and rapid tests, and those without insurance can still schedule appointments for testing on the Walgreens website, the

pharmacy said.

The pharmacy at Price Chopper in Chatham on Route 66 offers PCR testing by appointment and has no cost without insurance, the pharmacy said. Patients do not need to be symptomatic.

Central Avenue Pharmacy in Albany offers free rapid antigen testing without insurance from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with results in 15 minutes, the pharmacy said. Rapid PCR tests are $120 and take 30 minutes for results, and standard PCR tests are covered by insurance. Symptoms are not required for the free rapid test.

CVS Pharmacy locations in Valatie and Red Hook are no longer testing for COVID-19, the pharmacies said. Quest Diagnostics in Saugerties is only testing for antibodies at the recommendation of a doctor and is not testing active COVID-19 cases.

Though they are not free, at-home testing kits are also for sale at local pharmacies.

At-home rapid tests cost around $24 at Walgreens or CVS, according to their websites.

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servance of Veteran’s Day n Coxsackie Town Offices closed in observance of Veteran’s Day n Coxsackie Village Offices closed in observance of Veteran’s Day n Greene County Office Building closed in observance of Veteran’s Day

Monday, Nov. 15 n Athens Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518-945-1052 n Greene County Legislature Special County Services; economic development and tourism; gov. ops.; finance and Rep and Dem Caucus 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill n Greenville Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 11159 Route 32, Pioneer Building, Greenville

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Hochul: Vaxxing kids will end school mask mandate

By Kate Lisa Johnson Newspaper Corp.

The state’s school mask mandate will end after the majority of New York children get vaccinated against COVID-19, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Thursday.

Children ages 5 to 11 started receiving the PfizerBioNTech’s pediatric COVID-19 vaccine this week after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended the shots Monday.

The vaccine was previously available to Americans ages 12 and older.

“I want to give parents and kids that sense of hope: This is not a permanent situation, the mask will come off,” Hochul said, urging people to vaccinate their child as soon as possible.

Hochul answered questions for nearly an hour Thursday on a webinar hosted by City & State and sponsored by AARP. “If 100% of every child is vaccinated in the state of New York, it would be illogical to require them to wear

Courtesy of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office Gov. Kathy Hochul answers a reporter’s question during a COVID-19 briefing in the state Capitol on Oct. 5.

masks,” she said.

The state will eliminate the COVID-19 safety regulation requiring every person over age 2 wear a mask or facial covering in school buildings after a majority of children are protected against the fatal upper respiratory disease.

“I don’t have a magic number,” said Hochul, adding she will wait for U.S. Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention to issue guidance about the safe vaccination threshold to remove the mask mandate and declare the pandemic’s end.

“Hopefully sooner than later, the masks will not be necessary — we’re just not there yet,” the governor said.

The statewide mask mandate, first imposed in April 2020, ended in June after nearly 70% of New York

adults were vaccinated against COVID-19.

It’s too early to know the appropriate number, or vaccine percentage, for children to safely remove their facial coverings while in public.

“I know a lot of parents in the state appreciate the fact their little kids are safer because they’re wearing masks,” the governor said.

“I encourage parents, if you want your kids to see grandma and grandpa or older aunts and uncles over the Thanksgiving and upcoming holidays, get them vaccinated now so your child does not become the reason that the parent you fought so hard to protect all these months actually gets sick.”

State officials worked with school districts across New York to schedule pop-up vaccine sites for children during school hours. Pediatricians statewide also made preparations to ensure a smooth vaccine rollout.

At least 87.8% of New Yorkers ages 18 and older have received at least one COVID vaccine dose as of Thursday.

“I really hope that parents who know that their kids do not show up to Kindergarten until they’ve been vaccinated for a whole host of diseases will do the same,” Hochul said of fighting the coronavirus. “And then we can finally declare the era of masks is over, the pandemic is behind us and power into the future.”

Hochul teased state officials are brainstorming to come up with creative incentives to encourage children about getting the life-saving shot.

Children between the ages of 5 and 11 are eligible to receive $100 to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday.

The state’s average COVID positivity rate has declined to 2.3% as of Thursday with the increasing vaccination rates.

At least 58,164 New Yorkers died from coronavirus complications since March 2020, according to the CDC. Tribune News Service contributed to this report.

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p.m. Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill 518-943-3830

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Ninth annual Dining Out for Others Wednesdays in November HUDSON — There is still time to support local restaurants and Catholic Charities of Columbia and Greene Counties for the ninth annual “Dining Out for Others” during November as they raise awareness and funds to eliminate hunger while promoting local business. Our restaurants need support now more than ever before.

For 43 years, Catholic Charities of Columbia and Greene Counties has been providing essential services to the residents of Columbia and Greene Counties, with Emergency Assistance at the core of programming to serve the poor and vulnerable, regardless of race, religion, or lifestyle.

On the Wednesday nights in November, Catholic Charities we will be partnering with local restaurants who have graciously agreed to donate a portion of funds from the evening’s earnings to Catholic Charities. As

a participant of “Dining Out for Others” you will be helping to raise funds for the Emergency Assistance Program and Food Pantries in both Greene and Columbia as you dine on your favorite meal with family and friends at no additional cost.

“Dining Out for Others” is a win for everyone.

Restaurants enjoy added business, diners enjoy a delicious meal, and funds are raised to help families and individuals meet basic needs. By dining out one night, two, three, or four, you will be helping to repair a vehicle needed to maintain employment, or paying a portion of rent that was missed due to medical bills, or filling a propane tank for cooking and hot water.

Show you support for the restaurants and your community by dining on Wednesdays at the following restaurants: 2021 Dining Out For

Others List of Participating Restaurants Nov. 10: Hunter Mountain Brewery 7267 State Route 23A, Hunter; Kozel’s Restaurant 1006 Route 9H, Ghent; Reds Restaurant, 12005 Route 9W, Coxsackie; White Stone Café, 2337 Route 66, Ghent; Plaza Diner, 300 Fairview Ave., Hudson; Nov. 17: Brandywine Restaurant, 11157 Route 23, Windham; Jackson’s Old Chatham House, 646 Albany Turnpike, Old Chatham; Jessie’s Harvest House Restaurant & Lodge, 5819 Main St., Tannersville.

Nov. 24 (Thanksgiving Eve): Local 111, 111 Main St., Philmont; Plaza Diner, 300 Fairview Ave., Hudson.

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Kids’ COVID vaccines needed to stop spread Remember when you were a child and your parents warned if you wore your rubbers in the house, something awful would happen to you? Conversely, think of the times your parents said you would be healthy and strong if you washed your hands and cleaned your dinner plate.

Life, as your parents tried to teach you, is a trade-off.

And we are pleased to see Gov. Kathy Hochul adopt a similar strategy when she announced Thursday the state’s school mask mandate will end after the majority of New York children get vaccinated against COVID-19. We hope parents take encouragement from the governor’s message: Wearing masks is not a permanent situation, and parents must vaccinate their children against the coronavirus as soon as possible to do away with the required face coverings for students and staff.

Hochul answered questions for about an hour Thursday in a webinar hosted by City & State magazine

and sponsored by AARP. The state will eliminate the COVID-19 safety regulation requiring every person over age 2 to wear a mask or facial covering in school buildings after a majority of children are protected against the fatal upper respiratory disease. Vaccinations protect those with whom our children come in contact — parents, elderly grandparents, friends, neighbors and classmates.

Though the state’s average COVID positivity rate has declined to 2.3% as of Thursday with increasing vaccination rates, we remain in the middle of the pandemic. We report new positive cases of the disease in Greene and Columbia counties almost daily.

The spikes and the fatalities have not stopped, and continue to pose a threat with the upcoming holiday season.

“I know a lot of parents in the state appreciate the fact their little kids are safer because they’re wearing masks,” Hochul said. “I encourage parents, if you want

your kids to see grandma and grandpa or older aunts and uncles over the Thanksgiving and upcoming holidays, get them vaccinated now so your child does not become the reason that the parent you fought so hard to protect all these months actually gets sick.”

About 200 people — the young and the old — have died from the coronavirus in our area. More than 58,000 New Yorkers, including children, have died from COVID or its complications since March 2020. That’s equivalent to the final American death toll for the entire Vietnam War. Parents who protested the loudest over wearing masks will probably protest even louder over the vaccine strategy. But these people are wrong: The COVID vaccine is safe, effective and free. We hope parents who know their children can’t show up for Kindergarten until they get vaccinated against a whole host of diseases will do the same in the battle against the coronavirus.

ANOTHER VIEW

By lifting some of Trump’s European tariffs, Biden prepares for competition against China quota,” under which the President Joe Biden reUnited States would imturned from Europe with pose a 25% levy on annual a major policy achievesteel imports from Europe ment in hand: the resolu- above 3.3 million tons tion, at least for now, of a — well below pre-pannasty transatlantic trade demic levels. European dispute left over from the exports would also have Trump administration. to be entirely domestiHaving previously negocally made, with no inputs tiated a cease-fire in an from China or elsewhere. even older U.S.-European Climate will be a part of tariff skirmish over comthis strategy as well, with peting aircraft subsidies, the United States and Biden made a deal to lift European Union agreethe tariffs his predecesing to work on restricting sor imposed on European imports based on how steel and aluminum. The much carbon gets emitted European Union recipro- in their production, the cated by ending its threat- equivalent of an eco-tariff ened retaliatory levies on on China. This helped U.S.-made products such the United States to steer as whiskey and motorclear of a European threat cycles. The United States to impose such a restricand Europe have thus tion on American prodlaid a basis for better rela- ucts. tions — and a more united In short, the agreement front against the country, reduces but does not China, whose unfair com- eliminate higher costs on mercial practices, espethe far larger segment of cially the maintenance of the economy that buys excess steelmaking capac- steel rather than makes it. ity, harm them both.

And it left intact the idea, Steel companies and established by President unions in the United Donald Trump, that it is States are pleased — but all right for the president caveats apply. In no sense to impose tariffs using his is the deal a restoration of special national-security free trade in metals. Rath- authority under U.S. trade er, it establishes a “tariff law - even when the target

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countries, as in Europe, are mutual defense treaty partners. In fact, tariffs set under this authority linger against other allies such as Britain, Japan and South Korea. Congress may need to reform the underlying statute to prevent future presidential abuse.

To its credit, the Biden administration says it aspires to make tariff peace with those countries as well. On Monday, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo articulated a new “friend-shoring” strategy, whereby the United States would try to channel global supply chains around China and through partners in Europe and Asia.

If, indeed, the administration engineers that geopolitical realignment, it might help counterbalance China. That, in turn, would offset some of the costs, economic and political, of adopting managed trade in place of the free trade policy for which the United States has stood for seven decades.

But those costs and tradeoffs are real.

Revived or comatose?

Biden’s presidency one year from now.

WASHINGTON — A year from this week, the Biden presidency will be either revived or comatose. Revived, if Democrats avoid even the small election losses that would erase their tenuous control of the House or Senate. Comatose, if in January 2023 Republicans control either chamber. Whether this occurs will partly depend on how comfortable voters are with President Biden’s promiscuous “you name it” approach to governance.

In a 1992 presidential debate with a town hall format, a young man posed a nauseating question to President George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and H. Ross Perot: “How can we as symbolically the children of the future president, expect the two of you, the three of you, to meet our needs: the needs in housing, and, and, in crime and, you name it.”

The questioner was symptomatic of many Americans’ infantile inflation of presidents as daddies. He also was a harbinger of the progressivism ascendant in today’s Democratic Party: We children have many needs and need the federal government to meet all of them.

Biden’s current precarious position is, however, a product of more than his party’s incontinent appetite for swaddling Americans in a cradle-to-grave blanket of government solicitude. Reasons for Biden’s autumn of discontent include incompetence in Afghanistan, chaos at the southern border and confusion on the president’s countenance.

The first of these is over, and next November’s election will reveal how indelible its stain is on an administration that promised a restoration of executive branch professionalism. The second will be a long-running tutorial on the wages of hubris in thinking that a problem that has vexed many administrations — a 1,954-mile land border facing

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WILL troubled developing nations — would yield to the cleverness of the virtuous.

Biden’s third problem, which is his insufficient aptitude for the performative dimension of the presidency, can be surmounted if his aides will serve him, and the nation, better. It is political malpractice for them to put him in situations that require skills that he — always garrulous, rarely fluent — has never possessed. The recent CNN town hall was redundant evidence of this: Biden sowed confusion about climate science (“if we reached beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius increase in temperature, we’re gone.

Not a joke”), who controls the National Guard (it’s not him), and Taiwan (perhaps we should, but we do not, “have a commitment” to come to Taiwan’s defense if China attacks).

It is unlikely that taciturn George Washington, or learned but cranky John Quincy Adams, or admirable but stolid Grover Cleveland, not to mention the sainted Calvin (“Silent Cal”) Coolidge, would have performed with flair when required to improvise on television. Biden should consider this theory: The less we see of presidents, the more likely we are to admire them.

Dwight D. Eisenhower was sometimes syntactically challenged when speaking extemporaneously, but he came to the presidency with experience wielding executive power — conducting coalition warfare — and sometimes his

foggy sentences disguised his guile. Before a 1955 news conference, his press secretary, Jim Hagerty, urged him not to answer reporters’ questions about the crisis over Formosa, as Taiwan was then known. “Don’t worry, Jim,” Eisenhower replied. “If that question comes up, I’ll just confuse them.” It came up, and his wonderfully meandering answer began, “The only thing I know about war are two things . . .”

With 38 months of Biden’s term remaining, stabilizing his presidency is a national imperative: Cold-eyed enemies of this nation are assessing him. Also, the weaker he seems politically, the more likely his predecessor is to seek a second term, thereby delaying restoration of the two-party system: Today’s tremulous GOP hardly counts.

Furthermore, it is in the Democratic Party’s interest for Biden to begin succeeding, and soon. That would make an early decision by him to retire in January 2025 seem statesmanlike rather than like bowing to failure. If such a decision were to come, say, late in 2023, Democrats would face an awkward fact: Vice President Kamala Harris.

As a “woman of color,” she would excite progressives obsessed with identity politics, but she would be a high-risk 2024 nominee. Harris has said that dropping out of the competition for the 2020 nomination was “one of the hardest decisions of my life.” Actually, the Democratic nominating electorate made it easy: Voters’ unenthusiastic opinion of her was why she left the race 62 days before the first votes were cast in Iowa.

Biden can be remembered fondly as the bridge to a better politics. But only if he is more politically buoyant than his polarizing agenda.

George Will’s email address is georgewill@washpost.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

A vote we can’t afford to lose To the editor: With election day over, we all have some victories to savor and losses to lament.

But whether a Democrat or Republican, there’s one thing we can’t afford to lose: control over the heat-trapping emissions that destabilize our climate.

Our loss of control has gone on far too long. But we have a vital opportunity at hand as Congress hashes out the final details of the budget reconciliation bill. It includes substantial funding for the climate that can help steer us

in the right direction through clean-energy incentives.

While highly valuable, they alone aren’t sufficient.

Major corporations who profit from dirty energy also need to have incentives — not just subsidies but costs that make them take responsibility for the climate damage they’ve caused and push them to change their business plans.

There’s a very effective way to achieve that. Charge a pollution fee per ton of their heat-trapping emissions. Relative to fossil fuels,

that will make clean energy even cheaper than it already is. Use the pollution fees for cash-back dividends that protect mid-to-low-income households from price increases, and take what’s left over to support other worthy programs to reduce pollution and stabilize our climate.

Vote with your voices, and call Congress right now. Say we’re all for an effective climate policy that pays for itself!

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FORTNIGHTLY CLUB HELPS CLASS OF 2022 HOLD PROM

Don’t take anything for granted

By Charlene Marchand For Columbia-Greene Media

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The Catskill Hugh School Class of 2022 finally got to hold their prom Oct. 21 at The Chateau in Kingston. Pictured is Jodi Guenther on the right from The Fortnightly Club presenting Class of 2022 advisor Christa Dedrick on the left wiith a check for $500.00 to help defray expenses for the prom.

What happens after the first frost

By Bob Beyfuss For Columbia-Greene Media

Most of our region finally had a hard freeze last Wednesday and Thursday mornings, putting an end to a gardening season that lasted much longer than “normal.” October 2021 is in the books now, as one of the wettest as well as one of the warmest on record. As annoying as the rainy weather has been all summer long, it has been beneficial for our forests. Prolonged droughts, such as we have experienced in the past few decades, contribute to long term declines in forest health that are hard to erase. Tree species such as Eastern hemlock, which have been devastated by the Hemlock Wooly Adelgid, can tolerate much more insect pressure provided they have adequate moisture.

It is true that increased rain leads to increased fungal diseases, particularly leaf spot diseases, but these diseases are far less serious to the long term health of the tree than drought. If your landscape trees or shrubs suffered from leafspot diseases this past season, make sure you rake up and dispose of fallen leaves this fall, since these leaves will serve as sources of infection next spring. In order for any disease to occur three things must occur simultaneously.

First, there must be the presence of the pathogen in sufficient amounts to cause infection. Most fungal infections are spread by spores that over winter in the fallen leaves. This will be the case with the fallen leaves next spring serving as inoculum. Next, environmental conditions, such as moisture and temperature must be favorable for the spores to germinate. Finally, the host tree or shrub must be at a susceptible stage. Most leaf infections occur before the leaf forms its protective, waxy, cuticle, so by the time you see symptoms, it is too late to do anything. I

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BEYFUSS think we can count on the latter two conditions occurring, so the only thing you can affect is to remove the fallen leaves and reduce the level of infectious spores.

It is important to get rid of leaves in general that may be blanketing your lawn right now. It only takes about 6 weeks for lawn grasses to die, if they are fully covered with leaves, as long as the grass is not fully dormant. They don’t suffocate so much, as perish from lack of sunlight. You can rake up the leaves and dispose of them for curbside pickup, but I see this as a waste of a valuable resource. Putting organic matter in a landfill, which can be utilized elsewhere on your property. The best solution is to compost the leaves in a compost pile or bin and then use the compost in your gardens next year. Maple leaves, especially sugar maple leaves, compost quickly, but oak leaves often mat down and can ruin a compost pile if they are not either shredded or mixed with a coarser organic substance. Maple leaves by themselves, make an excellent mulch for asparagus beds after the fern like tops are removed.

Wait until the asparagus fern turns yellow before cutting them down to ground level and then you can cover the bed with up to six inches, or even more with maple leaves.

You can use maple leaves as mulch in perennial beds as well once the perennial plant tops have been cut back.

Simply mowing the leaves on your lawn where they fall will allow their nutrient value to feed the trees. Even if the grass does not need to be cut, shredding the leaves by mowing is perhaps the best way to not waste this source of nutrients aside from a compost pile.

Make sure you dig up your summer bulbs such as canna, tuberous begonia, gladiolas and dahlias before the ground freezes. Store the bulbs, tubers or corms in the basement in paper bags filled with dry peat moss for the winter.

It is not too late to plant spring flowering bulbs in a location that is clearly visible from your house windows.

Only daffodils, Alliums and Crown Imperial are pretty much immune to deer predation, whereas tulips are consumed like candy where deer are abundant.

Spray rhododendrons and other broad leafed shrubs with an antidessicant right now to prevent winter burn. Make sure you coat the underside of the leaves with the spray, since that is where the stomates are located. Be prepared to spray again in December on a warm day and perhaps once again in February.

Erect wooden cages to protect shrubs that deer eat, or wrap the bushes with burlap.

Don’t wrap them with plastic “burlap” since this material does not allow air exchange.

Deer populations are down significantly this fall, with the onset of EHD disease in the Hudson valley. This viral disease has killed hundreds of deer, this past summer and fall, much to the dismay of deer hunters. When the population of any wild animal exceeds the carrying capacity of the environment, nature often steps in to remedy the issue.

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It is a good mental health exercise to remind ourselves each day, of all the positive aspects of our lives, be they ever so small. This type of “fitness program” helps to keep us balanced and positive. It is especially important to be grateful for loving families and close friends.

As often happens, we can become complacent about the good deeds, generous people, great weather, et al. that surround us. To say it another way, most of us can take the upsides of our day for granted. And so it is with our companion animals — their good and desirable behavior, that is.

The premier tenant of positive reinforcement is to reward all desired behavior — in other words, don’t take it for granted. If Hugo has been quiet by our side while we read a good book or watch a program or iron our clothes, remember to periodically reward that lovely, devoted, passive behavior with a word, pat or a treat. When Tommy Tom Cat explodes through the door at a blistering pace, and Hugo leaps up to get in “his” practice lap for the Indianapolis 500, dear old dad (the pack leader) may voice his displeasure. Nothing wrong with that, IF he didn’t take those two hours of quiet time for granted. When mom and Hugo are out for their daily stroll, and the perfect puppy has trotted merrily by her side, with a lot of “at attention” eye glances, it is then that she should be rewarding and reinforcing her canine son. Don’t take it for granted.

When that tantalizing grey squirrel scoots across mom’s path, and Hugo decides that he’s entered in the tractor pull at the Chatham Fair, a redirection IS probably in order — but the truth is that the lesson will be learned faster, and compliance with the rules will be more reliable, if we are thankful for and reward that

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gentle dog by our side. Don’t take it for granted.

The same rules apply to Strawberry Shortcake. While she’s busy exercising those retractable feline nails on her posts or scratching boards, our praise should be lavish, effervescent. Falling into the trap of correcting Minnie’s manicuring enthusiasm when she heads for the new lounge, will render the lesson longer to learn. We took the desirable behavior, which was to have her nails done at the feline manicure station, for granted. Always a mistake.

Here’s my hit list: never take eye contact from any companion animal species for granted. Praise and reward. Is Herman sitting quietly waiting his turn at

the Dog Doctor? Praise and reward. Did Polly the Puppy quickly squat and “do dooty” while in the middle of a torrential downpour? Don’t take it for granted. Is Gorgeous George patiently waiting for you to finish dusting before his street patrol? Don’t take it for granted. You will find those quiet-down times increasing with age!

The Food Bank is open to any from the public in need of pet food or for those wishing to donate food from 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m. daily. Spay/neuter clinics are available for cats and dogs.

Charlene Marchand is the Chairperson of the Columbia-Greene Humane Society/SPCA Board of Directors.

Peel and stick not for the faint of heart

By Dick Brooks For Columbia-Greene Media

To look at me, you’d never guess I had any problems. If you passed me on the street, you might say to yourself, “What a strikingly handsome chubby old bald guy!” and never know I was challenged.

I shouldn’t have this problem, I used to be a good athlete with good coordination, sure, the ballet lessons never took but that’s another story.

I’m still not doing badly, I can eat by myself and seldom stick the fork into my forehead and handle most of life’s foibles with a smile until I run into one of the few things that I will readily admit give me problems.

I have decided that I’m “Peel and Stick” challenged.

It was never a big problem but the number of things that need to be peeled and stuck is growing by leaps and bounds.

I started paying closer attention to this developing problem the other day when I went to a doctor’s office in a large hospital. I asked the receptionist to validate my parking ticket, she used to whip out a stamp and give the ticket a thump and I was set to go. She handed me a sticker.

A peel and stick kind of sticker, she told me to just peel off the back and stick it onto the ticket. I tried, I picked and picked at the nearest corner, it shredded a little but not enough for me to grab onto any thing large enough to pull on. I went to the next corner and so on and so on and so on. I have no finger nails, I frequently have my hands in stuff that I don’t want under my nails so I keep them cut short. I will also confess to

WHITTLING AWAY

DICK

BROOKS having been a nail biter and keeping my nails short keeps me from chewing on them during times of stress like scary movies or forgotten anniversaries. I finally stuck the sticker between my teeth and bit some of the backing off. I grabbed the chunk of backing that was sticking up and triumphantly peeled off the back. I now had a sticky sticker clinging to my finger that I tried to stick straight onto the back of the ticket, it went on crooked. I think its static electricity or something but every time I try on put one of these darn things on straight, it jumps off my finger and grabs onto whatever I’m trying to put it on. It always winds up crooked and wrinkled.

Peel and sticks are appearing everywhere, have you tried putting one of the vehicle registration stickers on yet? You only have to peel part of it, then trying to get it onto a curved windshield down near the bottom where your hand won’t fit anyway is next to impossible. The stamps at the Post Office — all peel and stick. I miss the old ones, I liked the taste of the glue they used to use. I admit it was an acquired taste but pleasant, kind of a cross between peppermint candy and Palmolive

soap. The only problem I had with the old lick type stamps was around Christmas when I walked around for a couple of days after card writing time with my tongue stuck to the roof of my mouth. Being peel and stick challenged, it takes me longer now to get the stamps on the cards than it does to write them. If you get a Christmas card with a wrinkled and crooked stamp on it, it may be from me.

I believe one should face one’s handicaps head on.

Being of a creative mind, I went out to my shop to solve this problem for me and the good of all mankind. I found an old rubber finger, the kind folks used to use to count money. Not having enough cash to warrant owning such an object, I decided to put it to better use. I stuck a common pin through the end of it, giving me a useful tool to pick at the backing on the peel and sticks. I was excited because it worked well! Then I dropped it into my pocket and discovered a design flaw when I next bent over. After discreetly pulling the pin out of my thigh, I discarded my new invention. I think I’m going to try one of those stick on fingernails next, maybe something in a soft pink.

Thought for the week — If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be “meetings.” — Dave Barry Until next week, may you and yours be happy and well.

Reach Dick Brooks at whittle12124@yahoo.com.

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Dorothy Perkins Montague January 18, 1933 - October 25, 2021 Dorothy Perkins Montague, 88, a long-time social worker and hospital social services administrator, died early on Oct. 25, 2021, at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., nine days after coiling catheter surgery for a small brain hemorrhage.

Born on Jan. 18, 1933, in Chicago, Ill., she was the youngest of four children of O. Robert Perkins and the former Charlene Johnston. The family also lived in Meriden, Conn., Hagerstown. Md., and Garden City, Long Island, N.Y. She was a 1950 graduate of Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park, N.Y. Montague attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and married a classmate, Richard Cady Montague, just after they graduated in June 1957. She also earned a master’s degree in social work from Fordham University in the Bronx.

She served as a social worker at Spence-Chapin Services to Family and Children, an adoption agency in New York, N.Y., and at Methodist Hospital and Brooklyn, N.Y. She also directed the social services departments at Brooklyn Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., and at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, N.Y. After living in New York City for 40 years, primarily in Brooklyn, the Montagues moved to Germantown in 1997. She also served as president of the Germantown Neighbors Association.

She and her husband, Richard, were married for 60 years, until he died on May 28, 2018.

Montague is survived by her sons, James Montague of Elmwood Park, Ill., and Gray Montague of Pittsburgh, Pa. Grandchildren are Clara Montague of New Haven, Conn., Alice Montague of Oklahoma City, Okla., Avery Montague of Columbus, Ohio, and Grace Montague of Portland, Ore. She’s also survived by her niece Kathy McGuigan and nephew Mark Perkins, both of Calif. Montague was also preceded in death by her parents, sister Margaret (Perkins) Hofer of Tarrytown, N.Y., brother John Perkins, and brother Arthur Perkins of Moraga, Calif.

Arrangements for cremation were made with the Burnett & White Funeral Home of Red Hook, N.Y. Interment will be at the Friends Upton Lakes Cemetery in Clinton Corners, N.Y. No immediate services memorials are planned, though a celebration of life event may be held for relatives and friends at a later date.

Jack G. Urso February 4, 1931 - November 4, 2021 Jack G. Urso, age 90 years, of Coxsackie, N.Y. passed away peacefully on November 4, 2021.

He was born on February 4, 1931 in Manhattan, N.Y. and is the son of the late Salvatore and Alfranzina (Crapanzano) Urso.

Besides his parents, Jack is predeceased by his loving wife Lucy Urso who passed away on March 18, 2017.

Survivors include his brother Michael Urso and his wife Rosalie of New Jersey, several nieces, nephews and friends.

During his lifetime, Jack proudly served in The United States Army during the Korean Conflict. He was a retired licensed electrician working for The Civil Service in N.Y.C. for many years.

Jack was a member of The V.F.W . in Coxsackie, N.Y., The American Legion in Coxsackie, N.Y. and also The Catskill Elks # 1341.

He loved to tell stories of his days in the military and also of the time that he was a licensed electrician in New York City. He

loved all types of music and many people knew him for his love of music, and also he loved listening to his radio.

Relatives and friends are cordially invited to attend calling hours at The W.C. Brady’s Sons, Inc. Funeral Home, 97 Mansion Street, Coxsackie, N.Y. on Tuesday, November 9, 2021 from 5:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M. Graveside services with United States Army Honors will be held the next day, Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 11:00 A.M. at the family plot of The St. Patrick’s Cemetery, Catskill, N.Y. Condolences may be made at www.wcbradyssonsinc.net.

Fogel prepares to take seat as state Supreme Court justice

By ALEX GAULT agault@wdt.net

EAST SYRACUSE — Danielle M. Fogel said she is excited to start work as the newest state Supreme Court justice for the Fifth Judicial District.

On Tuesday night, the 43-year-old Republican trial attorney swept to victory with 54% of the vote, compared to the 42% taken by her competitor, former Democratic Congressman Anthony J. Brindisi.

Mrs. Fogel brought in 20,286 more votes than Mr. Brindisi, winning every county except Onondaga County.

On Thursday morning, Mrs. Fogel said she entered election night

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confident about her chances in the northern counties of

Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego and Herkimer, but was unsure what would happen in Oneida and Onondaga counties.

“Onondaga is always a county that’s difficult for a Republican to win, but we were surprised by the margin, only about 1,800 votes there,” she said.

Mrs. Fogel said she was very happy to have won a majority in her and Mr. Brindisi’s home county of Oneida, where she garnered 4,200 more votes.

As she prepares to take the bench in January, Mrs. Fogel said she’s winding down her private law practice and preparing to take the oath of

Land border reopening rules unsettled ports of entry to the U.S. on Nov. 8, and CBP has said there is still more information yet to be released about the steps travelers will need to take to enter the U.S. CBP also warned that, starting in January 2022, all inbound foreign nationals crossing via land entry points or ferry terminals for essential or non-essential purposes will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and prove their status.

Frances Judson Gorton February 20, 2020 Frances Judson Gorton was a caring wife, mother, sister and friend. She was born to Russell and Jessie Judson in 1924 and left this world on February 20, 2020 at the age of 95. She was a member of the Honor Society at Hudson High School and, after graduating from Syracuse University, worked for Merck where she met her husband John Gorton. They honeymooned on Nantucket and together they had 3 children: Mary, Julia, and John.

She loved Antiques, Early American History and Bird Watching. For many years she volunteered at her local hospital and assorted historical societies.

A Memorial Service was held on Saturday, October 23rd at the Reformed Dutch Church in Clavarack where she was interred beside her late husband John.

Michael J. Delaney March 29, 1959 - November 3, 2021 Michael J. Delaney, age 62 of Colonie passed away on Wednesday, November 3, 2021. Born on March 29, 1959 in Hudson, he was the son of the late Clayton and Mary Ronsani Delaney.

He recently retired after a 30-year career at the Martin Van Buren National Historic Site in Kinderhook.

He is survived by his wife Kim, son Mark, brothers Joseph (Jill) and David, and his niece, Molly.

Funeral services will be private.

Memorial donations may be made in his name to the Columbia Greene Humane Society, 111 Humane Society Rd, Hudson, NY 12534 or by going to cghs.org/donate.

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Canada Border Services Agency plaza entering Canada on Sept. 29. Kara Dry/Watertown Daily Times

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WASHINGTON — More details are available about the rules foreign visitors to the U.S. will have to follow at its land border crossings when the crossings reopen to nonessential travel on Nov. 8.

With exactly one week left until the monthslong closure of the northern and southern borders to non-essential crossings ends, some details are still not hammered out.

But Congressman Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo, who is co-chair of both the Northern Border Caucus and the Canada-U.S. Interparlimentary Group, on Saturday confirmed that foreign travelers will not be required to

present a negative COVID-19 test to enter the U.S. In a news release, Rep. Higgins said Customs and Border Protection confirmed to his office directly that vaccinated travelers will not need to present a negative COVID-19 test, which is different from the air travel rules being implemented that do require a test.

On Oct. 19, the Department of Homeland Security informed Rep. Higgins that any visitors coming for nonessential purposes will need to be vaccinated, verbally attest to their vaccination status and prove it with documentation.

The AstraZeneca vaccine and “mix-and-match” vaccination procedures will be

accepted alongside the three vaccines approved for use in the U.S. — Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.

In his release, Rep. Higgins criticized the reopening process and the lack of solid information being released.

“There has been a slow, painful drip of information detailing the reopening of the northern border rather than clear and concise directives the public needs and deserves,” he said. “This is contributing to frustration and confusion. Initial details are welcome and with just a week to go, explicit information is needed to allow people to comfortably and confidently cross the border.”

There is still no concrete opening time set for the land

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November 11, 1950 - November 3, 2021 Michael A. VanTassel, 70, of Pine Plains, passed away peacefully on November 3, 2021 at home. He was born in Catskill, on November 11, 1950 to the late William and Dora (Lennon) VanTassel. In 1969, Michael joined the United States Marine Corp. where he served Honorably until 1975. After which he did various carpentry jobs throughout the local area. He also worked as a landscaper and took an interest in flowers, and gardening. An avid pool player who played in various leagues in both Columbia and Dutchess counties.

Michael is survived by his three sisters; Shirley Brady, of Niskayuna, Lois Bogue, of Pine Plains, and Sharlene Wiser, of Georgia. His brother, Elwood VanTassel, of Catskill, in addition to many nieces, nephews, and cousins.

Besides his parents he was also predeceased by his brothers, Gerald, William Jr., John and Donald VanTassel. Also, by one sister, Marie VanTassel.

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There’s also a four-day training at the state Judicial Institute, where newly elected judges learn the finer points of their job.

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“I’ve handled the various phases of litigation and even cases in the Appellate Division, so I have a wide range of experience that can immediately translate to helping parties in front of me resolve their cases,” she said.

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CHRISTMAS SALE MEDUSA — The Medusa United Church of Christ, 37 County Route 351, Medusa, will hold a Christmas sale 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Nov. 13 and 8 a.m.-noon Nov. 20

CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING MEDUSA — The Medusa United Church of Christ, 38 County Route 351, Medusa, will hold a Christmas tree lighting at 6 p.m. Nov. 28.

There will be caroling, crafts and bring a snack to share.

CHICKEN AND BISCUIT DINNER SOUTH BETHLEHEM — The South Bethlehem United Methodist Church, 67 Willowbrook Ave., South Bethlehem, will serve their popular chicken and biscuits dinner Nov. 12 with reservations required for seatings 4-5 p.m., 5-6 p.m. and 6-7 p.m. The cost is $12 and includes dessert. Reservations are needed for both dine-in and take-out and are required

by Nov. 8. For reservations, call or text Emily Shutter at 518-813-0661; email the church at sbumc.church@ gmail.com; or visit South Bethlehem United Methodist Church on Facebook and leave a message with your reservation.

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.

CHRISTMAS & MORE TAG SALE STUYVESANT — St. John’s Lutheran Church, 159 Route 26A, Stuyvesant, Christmas & More Tag Sale will be held 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Nov. 5 and Nov. 6.

There is a large inventory since it has been two years since the last sale. There will also be some regular items to choose from. Lunch will be take out

only, homemade soups and pieces of pie. Masks required.

DRIVE THRU TURKEY DINNER VALATIE — A Drive Thru Only Turkey Dinner will be served 3-6:30 p.m. Nov. 13 at the First Presbyterian Church, 3212 Church St., Valatie. The menu includes of roast turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, cranberry sauce and pie. Tickets are $15.

Advance tickets are strongly recommended. For ticket sales and information, call 518-929-5744.

FOOD SALE HUDSON — St. Michael’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 59 Partition St., Hudson, holds a food sale noon-1 p.m. Sundays in the Church’s Hall. Potato and cheese pierogies are available each Sunday. Sauerkraut pierogies, Borscht and Stuffed Cabbage available but must be pre-ordered by Friday afternoon, and picked up on Sunday. Call 518-506-4288 to place order or for more information. Free delivery within 10 mile radius on orders of $50 or more. While visiting, browse our Handmade Orthodox Prayer Ropes.

FOOD PANTRY VALATIE — The Seventhday Adventist Church, 3266 Route 9, Valatie, will be offering boxes of free food from its food pantry 2-4 p.m. Nov. 20.

Individuals will be served on a first come, first serve basis.

For information or if you have any questions, contact the church office at 909-784-4400 or check the church web site at https://www.kinderhooksda. org/

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

Sundays in person and live online. Social distancing and face masks required. Live broadcast at 9 a.m. on facebook.com/ChristChurchEpiscopalHudson or at christchurchepiscopalhudson. org. For information, call 518-828-1329 or email christchurch1802@gmail.com.

SAINT PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH KINDERHOOK — St. Paul’s

Episcopal Church, 8 Sylvester St., Kinderhook, Holy Communion in person at 8 and 10 a.m. Sundays. Face masks and distancing required regardless of vaccination status. For information and news, www. saintpaulskinderhook.org/ or follow us on Facebook.

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

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

Tuesday-Thursday and by appointment.

KINDERHOOK REFORMED CHURCH KINDERHOOK — The Kinderhook Reformed Church, 21 Broad St., Kinderhook, will have in person and live online Sunday worship at 9:30 a.m.

Face masks and social distancing required. Live broadcasts at 9:30 a.m. on https:// www.facebook.com/KinderhookReformed Church or https://www.youtube.com/ channel/UCCTUNikeMHshkf_mqhMNxCw. For information, call 518-758-6401 or kinderhookreformedchuch.com.

CLAVERACK REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH CLAVERACK — The Reformed Dutch Church, 88 Route 9H, Claverack, worships at 9:30 a.m. Sundays in the sanctuary with coffee hour following the worship service.

The mission project changes often, depending on need.

For information, call 518-8513811.

GHENT REFORMED CHURCH GHENT — The Ghent Reformed Church, 1039 County Route 22, Ghent, worships at 9 a.m. Sunday. The church is complying with the required safety requirements. The first Sunday of the month is Communion Sunday. Bonnie Pflegl is the preaching elder and will be conducting services on Sundays. The church follows CDC recommendations.

No coffee hour after worship at this time. Sunday School will be at 10:15 a.m., masks mandatory. There is instruction available for children 3 through the 8th grade. If you would like more information, leave a message on the Church

phone at 518-828-5946.

TRI COUNTY LUTHERAN PARISH VALATIE — The following is the worship schedule for the Tri County Lutheran Parish. Visit TCLParish.org website for weekly Zoom worship schedule and link.

Columbia County: Emanual Lutheran Church, 506 County Road 46, Stuyvesant Falls, worships at 8:30 a.m.

Sunday. St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, 1010 Kinderhook St., Valatie, worships at 10:30 a.m.

Sunday with Sunday School also at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday.

Emanuel/St. John’s Lutheran Church, 20 South Sixth St., Hudson, worships at 11 a.m.

Sunday.

Greene County: Zion Lutheran Church, 102 North Washington St., Athens, worships at 9 a.m. Sunday. St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, State Route 81, Oak Hill, worships at 11 a.m. Sunday.

Rensselaer County: Trinity Lutheran Church, 68 Green Ave., Castleton, worships at 9 a.m. Sunday. St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church, 751 County Route 7, East Schodack, worships at 11 a.m. Sunday.

GRACE BIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH RHINEBECK — Grace Bible Fellowship Church, 6959 Route 9, Rhinebeck, worships at 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday. Sunday School for all ages meets at 9:30 a.m. Women’s bible study and Grace Bible Institute meets at 7 p.m. Mondays. Mid-week prayer meeting is at 7 p.m. Wednesdays.

For information, call 845-8766923 or cdfcirone@aol.com.

LUTHERAN PARISH OF SOUTHERN COLUMBIA COUNTY GERMANTOWN — The following is the worship schedule for the Lutheran Parish of Southern Columbia County, Rev. Jacqueline Jefferson, Pastor. St. Thomas Lutheran Church, Churchtown, 11 a.m.

Sunday; Christ Lutheran Church, Germantown (Viewmont), 9 a.m. Sundays in December; St. John Lutheran Church, Elizaville (Manorton), 9 a.m. Sundays in November and January.

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Patients counting on blood and platelet donors at shortage continues POUGHKEEPSIE — With Thanksgiving and the holidays approaching, the American Red Cross urges donors to continue to make and keep appointments now and in the weeks ahead to help overcome the ongoing emergency blood and platelet shortage that has significantly impacted the nation’s blood supply. In fact, the current blood supply is the lowest the Red Cross has seen this time of year in more than a decade.

Since declaring an emergency need for donors last month, thousands of people have come to Red Cross blood drives across the country to roll up a sleeve and help patients who are counting on lifesaving transfusions.

The Red Cross is incredibly grateful for the kindness and generosity of these blood and platelet donors, but hospital demand remains strong. At least 10,000 more donations are needed each week in the coming weeks to meet patient needs — ahead of the upcoming holiday season, which always presents seasonal challenges to blood collection.

Donors are urged to schedule an appointment now by using the Red Cross Blood Donor App, visiting RedCrossBlood.org or calling 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800733-2767). In honor of the new series, I Know What You Did Last Summer, those who come to give Nov. 1-12, will automatically be entered to win a trip for two to Hawaii, courtesy of Amazon Prime Video. The trip will transport you to where the series was filmed and includes round-trip airfare for two, hotel accommodations for nine nights, meals, $1,000 gift card for expenses and on-trip transportation with tour stops from Honolulu to Maui. Plus, those who come to donate Nov. 1-23 will receive a $10 Amazon.com Gift Card* by email, thanks to Amazon.

Each Red Cross blood drive and donation center

follows the highest standards of safety and infection control, and additional precautions — including face masks for donors and staff, regardless of vaccination status — have been implemented to help protect the health of all those in attendance. Donors are asked to schedule an appointment prior to arriving at the drive.

Upcoming blood donation opportunities Nov. 1-23

COLUMBIA COUNTY Hudson Elks Lodge No. 787, 201 Harry Howard Ave., Hudson, 1-6 p.m. Nov. 11.

Livingston Pumper Company 1, 2855 Route 9, Livingston, 1-6 p.m. Nov. 12.

New Lebanon Firehouse-, 523 Route 20, New Lebanon, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Nov. 13.

St. John’s Church, 1025 Kinderhook St., Valatie, 1-7 p.m. Nov. 11.

DUTCHESS COUNTY Bard College, North Ravine Road, Annandale on Hudson, 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

Nov. 12.

East Fishkill Fire District, 2502 Route 52, Hopewell Junction, 2-7 p.m. Nov. 9.

Millbrook Fire House, 20 Front St., Millbrook, 1-6 p.m.

Nov. 23.

Boardman Road Branch Library, 141 Boardman Road, Poughkeepsie, 2-7 p.m. Nov. 18.

GREENE COUNTY Cairo Durham High School, Route 145, Cairo, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Nov. 17.

Catskill Elks Lodge Hall, 45 North Jefferson Ave., Catskill, noon-6 p.m. Nov. 8.

ULSTER COUNTY Ellenville First Aid & Rescue Squad, 1 Webster St., Ellenville, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Nov. 20.

Town of Gardiner, 2340 Rte 44/55, Gardiner, 1-6 p.m.

Nov. 22.

Highland Hose Company 1, 25 Milton Ave., Highland, 12:30-5:30 p.m. Nov. 19.

Veterans of Foreign Wars, 708 East Chester St., Kingston, 1-6 p.m. Nov. 8.

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Eucharistic Adoration 9 a.m. Wednesday & Thursday Saturday Vigil 4:30 p.m. | Sunday 9:30 a.m. (also St. Patrick’s YouTube channel or Mid-Hudson 901) Food Pantry Hours Tuesdays & Fridays 10–11 a.m. and Wednesdays 6–7 p.m.

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Catskill/Cairo-Durham quarterback Lucas Fisher sets up in the pocket during Thursday’s game against Canajoharie at Catskill High School.

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A Canajoharie defender pulls down Catskill-Cairo-Durham quarterback Lucas Fisher during Thursday’s game at Catskill High School.

A pack of Canajoharie defenders bring down a Catskill/CairoDurham ball carrier during Thursday’s game at Catskill High School.

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Penalties stifle Mustangs’ offense in loss to Cougars Matt Fortunato Columbia-Greene Media

CATSKILL — The Canajoharie Cougars blanked the Catskill/Cairo-Durham Mustangs 36-0 in Thursday night’s crossover football game at

Catskill High School.

The Mustangs could not get their offense going all night, thanks to a plethora of penalties that permeated their drives. Isaiah Hayden could have had a Mustangs

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Riders wrap up successful season Columbia-Greene Media

CORINTH — Ichabod Crane put the finishing touches on the most successful football season in school history on Wednesday with a 33-0 victory over Corinth.

The Riders finished with a 5-4 overall record, which is the most wins the program has ever produced in a single season.

Senior quarterback Joe Penzabene completed 8 of 15 passes for 190 yards and two touchdowns and rushed for 75 yards and three scores on 11 carries.

Zion Evans added 75 yards rushing on eight carries and had a 70-yard touchdown reception.

Austin Race had five receptions for 97 yards and a touchdown.

Defensively, Gabe DeLong had nine tackles.

Thomas Cooper had eight tackles, Ben Vecellio seven tackles, Alex Igras seven tackles and one fumble recovery and Race five tackles and two sacks.

Cobleskill 28, Hudson 24 COBLESKILL — A furious fourth quarter rally fell just short as Hudson dropped its season finale to Cobleskill-Richmondville, 28-24, in Thursday’s Class C crossover football game.

The Bulldogs got off to a fast start, rolling to a 140 lead after one quarter and extending it to 21-2 at halftime and 28-2 after three quarters.

Hudson finally got on track in the fourth quarter, scoring three touchdowns over the final 12 minutes, but it was too little, too late.

The Bluehawks finish with an overall record of 5-5.

The game marked the end of an era for Hudson football as head coach John Davi announced he is stepping down after eight years at the helm.

Lake George 20, TH 12 LAKE GEORGE — Backup quarterback Brendan Lamby ran for two touchdowns and passed for another score to lead Lake George past Taconic Hills, 20-12, in Thursday’s crossover football game.

Taconic Hills got on the board first on a oneyard run by Bo Burns. The score was set up by a long pass completion from Tyler Peck to Nate Baird.

Lake George evened the score early in the third quarter on a 19-yard pass from Lamby to Aidan Johnson. The Warriors added two more touchdowns in the third quarter on runs of 41 and 45 yards by Lamby to take a 20-6 lead into the final stanza.

The Titans’ final touchdown came on a 45-yard pass from Peck to Aaron Bonci in the fourth quarter.

The Titans finish with an overall record of 3-6.

touchdown on their opening series on offense, but he pushed off the defender and was called for offensive pass interference.

Hayden redeemed himself on a third and long play after

catching a screen pass and fighting his way on the ground for a Mustangs first down.

However on the next play, quarterback Lucas Fisher’s pass was intercepted by the Cougars.

Canajoharie quarterback Zachary Suits completed a touchdown pass to Tommy Weingart for the first score of the game, making it 6-0 Cougars after a missed extra point.

After moving the ball more

easily on the next drive, the Mustangs turned it over on downs after Fisher got sacked on fourth down. The Cougars worked the ball inside the See MUSTANGS B6

FIELD HOCKEY:

SECTION IX FIELD HOCKEY ALL-STARS Columbia-Greene Media

The following is the list of players that received the highest votes in Section IX and are ranked by these points. The coaches use stick skills, coachability, leadership, attitude, sportsmanship as some of the main criteria to score for these athletes and it is not solely ability on the field.

COACH OF THE YEAR Nanette Simione- Rondout Valley MVP/1st Team Sophia SchoonmakerRondout Valley

TIM MARTIN/COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA

Taconic Hills’ Madison Rowe (above) and Ava Skabowski were recently named first-team Section IX field hockey All-Stars. The Titans will take on Section I champion North Salem on Sunday at 12:30 p.m. at Rondout Valley High School in a state Class C regional game.

FIRST TEAM Jenn Sorrentino-Pine Bush (All State) Kylie Knuschke-Red Hook (All State) See HOCKEY B6

These shortstops could be Yankees long-term solution at position Kristie Ackert New York Daily News

NEW YORK — While the stink of stale champagne is still being cleared out of the visiting clubhouse in Houston, baseball quickly turns its attention to the free-agent market. For the Yankees, who’ve had plenty of down time to do their research after being bounced in the American League wild-card game, that means it’s time to fill holes that became very apparent in 2021.

First on their shopping list is a shortstop. Last month, after announcing

the extension of manager Aaron Boone, GM Brian Cashman said that was an obvious need. Considering the team gave up on Gleyber Torres at shortstop in midSeptember, it is pretty obvious.

The question for the Yankees at this position, however, is if they are looking for a long-term shortstop of the future. That means shopping in the luxury aisle of the free-agent market, which has plenty of interesting offerings this winter. The likes See YANKEES B6

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Corey Seager (5) and Chris Taylor (3) of the Los Angeles Dodgers look on against the Atlanta Braves during the first inning in Game Five of the National League Championship Series at Globe Life Field on October 16, 2020 in Arlington, Texas.

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Pro football NFL American Football Conference East W L T Pct PF Buffalo 5 2 0 .714 229 New England 4 4 0 .500 206 N.Y. Jets 2 6 0 .250 144 Miami 1 7 0 .125 138 South W L T Pct PF Tennessee 6 2 0 .750 227 Indianapolis 4 5 0 .444 245 Jacksonville 1 6 0 .143 123 Houston 1 7 0 .125 119 North W L T Pct PF Baltimore 5 2 0 .714 187 Cincinnati 5 3 0 .625 220 Pittsburgh 4 3 0 .571 132 Cleveland 4 4 0 .500 183 West W L T Pct PF Las Vegas 5 2 0 .714 180 L.A. Chargers 4 3 0 .571 172 Denver 4 4 0 .500 157 Kansas City 4 4 0 .500 208 National Football Conference East W L T Pct PF Dallas 6 1 0 .857 225 Philadelphia 3 5 0 .375 203 N.Y. Giants 2 6 0 .250 156 Washington 2 6 0 .250 156 South W L T Pct PF Tampa Bay 6 2 0 .750 260 New Orleans 5 2 0 .714 176 Carolina 4 4 0 .500 165 Atlanta 3 4 0 .429 148 North W L T Pct PF Green Bay 7 1 0 .875 192 Minnesota 3 4 0 .429 163 Chicago 3 5 0 .375 123 Detroit 0 8 0 .000 134 West W L T Pct PF Arizona 7 1 0 .875 246 L.A. Rams 7 1 0 .875 245 San Francisco 3 4 0 .429 168 Seattle 3 5 0 .375 181 Week 8 Thursday, Oct. 28 Green Bay 24, Arizona 21 Sunday, Oct. 31 N.Y. Jets 34, Cincinnati 31 Tennessee 34, Indianapolis 31, OT L.A. Rams 38, Houston 22 Pittsburgh 15, Cleveland 10 Philadelphia 44, Detroit 6 San Francisco 33, Chicago 22 Carolina 19, Atlanta 13 Buffalo 26, Miami 11 New England 27, L.A. Chargers 24 Seattle 31, Jacksonville 7 Denver 17, Washington 10 New Orleans 36, Tampa Bay 27 Dallas 20, Minnesota 16 Monday, Nov. 1 Kansas City 10, N.Y. Giants 17 Week 9 Thursday’s game Indianapolis 45, N.Y. Jets 30 Sunday’s games New England at Carolina, 1 p.m.

Atlanta at New Orleans, 1 p.m.

Denver at Dallas, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.

Buffalo at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.

Houston at Miami, 1 p.m.

Las Vegas at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m.

L.A. Chargers at Philadelphia, 4:05 p.m.

Green Bay at Kansas City, 4:25 p.m.

Arizona at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m.

Tennessee at L.A. Rams, 8:20 p.m.

Monday’s game Chicago at Pittsburgh, 8:15 p.m.

COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA

PA 109 164 251 233 PA 195 183 203 241 PA 164 162 142 180 PA 166 177 137 220 PA 162 191 200 227 PA 183 128 159 195 PA 167 157 195 244 PA 138 168 171 169

6 2 .750 5 3 .625 5 4 .556 4 6 .400 2 7 .222 Western Conference Northwest W L Pct Utah 8 1 .889 Denver 4 4 .500 Minnesota 3 4 .429 Portland 3 5 .375 Oklahoma City 1 6 .143 Pacific W L Pct Golden State 6 1 .857 L.A. Lakers 5 3 .625 Sacramento 4 4 .500 Phoenix 3 3 .500 L.A. Clippers 3 4 .429 Southwest W L Pct Dallas 5 3 .625 Memphis 5 3 .625 San Antonio 2 6 .250 Houston 1 6 .143 New Orleans 1 8 .111 Wednesday’s games Cleveland 107, Portland 104 Indiana 111, New York 98 Boston 92, Orlando 79 Philadelphia 103, Chicago 98 Toronto 109, Washington 100 Brooklyn 117, Atlanta 108 Memphis 108, Denver 106 L.A. Clippers 126, Minnesota 115 Dallas 109, San Antonio 108 Golden State 114, Charlotte 92 Sacramento 112, New Orleans 99 Thursday’s games Philadelphia 109, Detroit 98 Boston 95, Miami 78 Utah 116, Atlanta 98 Houston at Phoenix, 10 p.m.

Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

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

San Antonio at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Memphis at Washington, 7 p.m.

Cleveland at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

New York at Milwaukee, 7:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

New Orleans at Golden State, 10 p.m.

Indiana at Portland, 10 p.m.

Charlotte at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

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

Utah at Miami, 7:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Boston at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Phoenix, 10 p.m.

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

— 1.0 1.5 3.0 4.5 GB — 3.5 4.0 4.5 6.0 GB — 1.5 2.5 2.5 3.0 GB — — 3.0 3.5 4.5

Bruins 5, Red Wings 1

76ers 109, Pistons 98

Colts 45, Jets 30

Celtics 95, Heat 78

7 3 6 14 — 30 7 21 14 3 — 45 First Quarter IND—Hines 34 yard rush (Badgley kick), 6:55.

NYJ—E.Moore 19 yard pass from M.White (Ammendola kick), 3:32.

Second Quarter IND—Jo.Taylor 21 yard rush (Badgley kick), 13:24.

IND—J.Doyle 1 yard pass from Wentz (Badgley kick), 4:59.

NYJ—Ammendola 33 yard field goal, 1:46.

IND—Pittman Jr. 11 yard pass from Wentz (Badgley kick), 0:12.

Third Quarter IND—Pinter 2 yard pass from Wentz (Badgley kick), 6:54.

IND—Jo.Taylor 78 yard rush (Badgley kick), 6:02.

NYJ—E.Moore 19 yard pass from Jo.Johnson (Jo. Johnson rush - failed), 3:00.

Fourth Quarter NYJ—R.Griffin 13 yard pass from Jo.Johnson (Ammendola kick), 11:08.

IND—Badgley 39 yard field goal, 8:01.

NYJ—Ty.Johnson 22 yard pass from Jo.Johnson (Ammendola kick), 3:35.

A—59,593.

BOSTON (95) Smart 2-6 4-4 9, Horford 3-9 2-3 10, Tatum 3-13 2-3 10, J.Brown 5-14 4-5 17, Williams III 2-3 0-0 4, Schroder 5-12 3-3 14, Langford 4-8 2-2 12, Nesmith 5-8 0-0 13, G.Williams 1-3 0-0 3, Pritchard 1-2 0-0 3, Fernando 0-0 0-0 0, J.Hernangomez 0-0 0-0 0, Parker 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 31-78 17-20 95.

MIAMI (78) Ji.Butler 8-18 4-8 20, D.Robinson 5-17 1-1 16, Tucker 1-6 0-0 3, Adebayo 4-8 5-6 13, Lowry 2-9 0-0 6, Herro 3-11 0-0 6, Ma.Morris 3-7 2-2 9, Dedmon 1-1 0-0 2, Ca.Martin 0-2 1-2 1, Vincent 0-0 0-0 0, Yurtseven 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 28-81 13-19 78.

Boston 18 33 24 20 — 95 Miami 24 9 24 21 — 78 3-Point Goals—Boston 16-41 (J.Brown 3-5, Nesmith 3-5, Langford 2-5, Tatum 2-5, Horford 2-7, Pritchard 1-2, G.Williams 1-3, Schroder 1-4, Smart 1-5), Miami 9-41 (D.Robinson 5-17, Lowry 2-7, Ma.Morris 1-3, Tucker 1-5, Ca.Martin 0-1, Ji.Butler 0-4, Herro 0-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Boston 46 (Williams III 10), Miami 45 (Adebayo, Herro, Lowry, Tucker 7). Assists—Boston 16 (Schroder 6), Miami 18 (Lowry 5). Total Fouls— Boston 16 (Langford, Tatum, Horford 4), Miami 19 (Ji.Butler, Herro, D.Robinson 3). A—NA.

THIS WEEK’S SCHEDULE Wednesday’s games MIDWEST Central Michigan 42, Western Michigan 30 Kent State 52, Northern Illinois 47 Thursday’s game SOUTH UL Lafayette 21, Georgia St. 17 Friday’s games EAST Virginia Tech at Boston College, 7:30 p.m.

WEST Utah at Stanford, 10:30 p.m.

Saturday’s games EAST Rice at Charlotte, 3:30 p.m.

Penn State at Maryland, 3:30 p.m.

Wisconsin at Rutgers, 3:30 p.m.

Rhode Island at Massachusetts, 3:30 p.m.

Oklahoma State at West Virginia, 3:30 p.m.

SOUTH Louisiana Tech at UAB, Noon Missouri at Georgia, Noon Liberty at Mississippi, Noon Pittsburgh at Duke, Noon Wake Forest at North Carolina, Noon Southern Methodist at Memphis, Noon Georgia Tech at Miami, 12:30 p.m.

North Texas at Southern Miss, 3 p.m.

Temple at East Carolina, 3 p.m.

UL Monroe at Texas State, 3 p.m.

Auburn at Texas A&M, 3:30 p.m.

Baylor at Texas Christian, 3:30 p.m.

South Alabama at Troy, 3:30 p.m.

N.C. State at Florida State, 4 p.m.

Tulane at Central Florida, 4 p.m.

Marshall at Florida Atlantic, 6 p.m.

Coastal Carolina at Georgia Southern, 6 p.m.

Old Dominion at Florida International, 7 p.m.

Florida at South Carolina, 7:30 p.m.

Houston at South Florida, 7:30 p.m.

Texas-San Antonio at Texas El Paso, 10:15 p.m.

MIDWEST Illinois at Minnesota, Noon Ohio State at Nebraska, Noon Kansas State at Kansas, Noon Appalachian State at Arkansas St., 2 p.m.

Middle Tennessee at Western Kentucky, 3:30 p.m.

Michigan State at Purdue, 3:30 p.m.

Tulsa at Cincinnati, 3:30 p.m.

Navy at Notre Dame, 3:30 p.m.

Mississippi State at Arkansas, 4 p.m.

Louisiana State at Alabama, 7 p.m.

Tennessee at Kentucky, 7 p.m.

Iowa at Northwestern, 7 p.m.

Clemson at Louisville, 7:30 p.m.

Indiana at Michigan, 7:30 p.m.

Texas at Iowa State, 7:30 p.m.

WEST Army vs. Air Force, at Arlington, Texas, 11:30 a.m.

California at Arizona, 3 p.m.

Idaho State at Brigham Young, 3:30 p.m.

Colorado State at Wyoming, 3:30 p.m.

Utah State at New Mexico State, 4 p.m.

UNLV at New Mexico, 7 p.m.

Boise State at Fresno State, 7 p.m.

Oregon State at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Oregon at Washington, 7:30 p.m.

San Jose State at Nevada, 10 p.m.

Southern California at Arizona State, 10:30 p.m.

San Diego State at Hawaii, 11 p.m.

Pro basketball Eastern Conference Atlantic W L Pct Philadelphia 7 2 .778 Toronto 6 3 .667 Brooklyn 5 3 .625 New York 5 3 .625 Boston 4 5 .444 Central W L Pct Chicago 6 2 .750 Cleveland 5 4 .556 Milwaukee 4 4 .500 Indiana 3 6 .333 Detroit 1 7 .125 Southeast W L Pct

GB — 1.0 1.5 1.5 3.0 GB — 1.5 2.0 3.5 5.0 GB

Jazz 116, Hawks 98 UTAH (116) O’Neale 3-8 1-1 9, Ingles 7-9 0-0 19, Gobert 5-6 3-7 13, Conley 5-13 0-0 13, Bj.Bogdanovic 7-16 7-7 23, Clarkson 10-19 6-7 30, Forrest 0-1 0-0 0, Whiteside 1-2 0-1 2, Paschall 1-4 0-0 2, Ja.Butler 2-2 0-0 5. Totals 41-80 17-23 116.

ATLANTA (98) Capela 4-8 5-6 13, Tr.Young 8-20 5-5 21, Hunter 7-9 0-3 14, J.Collins 4-7 2-2 13, Bg.Bogdanovic 3-6 0-0 8, Gallinari 1-4 3-3 6, Huerter 3-8 0-0 6, Reddish 1-6 2-2 4, L.Williams 2-8 1-1 5, Dieng 0-1 1-2 1, Mays 0-0 2-2 2, Luwawu-Cabarrot 2-8 1-1 5. Totals 35-85 22-27 98.

Utah 15 24 36 41 —116 Atlanta 16 24 34 24 — 98 3-Point Goals—Utah 17-41 (Ingles 5-6, Clarkson 4-10, Conley 3-9, O’Neale 2-6, Bj.Bogdanovic 2-7, Ja.Butler 1-1, Paschall 0-2), Atlanta 6-25 (J.Collins 3-4, Bg.Bogdanovic 2-4, Gallinari 1-4, Dieng 0-1, Luwawu-Cabarrot 0-1, Huerter 0-2, Hunter 0-2, Reddish 0-3, Tr.Young 0-4). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—Utah 40 (Gobert 14), Atlanta 29 (Capela 10). Assists—Utah 21 (Conley 8), Atlanta 14 (Tr.Young 5). Total Fouls—Utah 15 (Gobert 3), Atlanta 16 (Capela, Huerter 3). A—NA.

Pro hockey

Detroit 0 0 1 — 1 Boston 1 2 2 — 5 First Period—1, Boston, Bergeron 1 (Marchand, McAvoy) 11:03 (pp).

Second Period—2, Boston, Bergeron 2 (Marchand) 10:52 (pp). 3, Boston, Bergeron 3 (Marchand, McAvoy) 18:45 (pp).

Third Period—4, Detroit, Raymond 5 (Hronek, Seider) 7:46 (pp). 5, Boston, Reilly 1 (Lazar, Nosek) 8:10 (sh). 6, Boston, Bergeron 4 (Marchand, Reilly) 15:52.

Shots on Goal—Detroit 3-6-6—15. Boston 1115-11—37.

Power-play opportunities—Detroit 1 of 4. Boston 3 of 5.

Goalies—Detroit Greiss 3-3-0 (37 shots-32 saves).

Boston Swayman 2-2-0 (15-14).

A—17,850 (17,565). T—2:30.

Penguins 3, Flyers 2 (OT) Philadelphia 0 1 1 0 — 2 Pittsburgh 1 1 0 1 — 3 First Period—1, Pittsburgh, McGinn 3 (Matheson, Aston-Reese) 0:16.

Second Period—2, Philadelphia, Konecny 4 (Giroux, Provorov) 7:37 (pp). 3, Pittsburgh, Guentzel 2 (Heinen, Marino) 11:46.

Third Period—4, Philadelphia, Laughton 3 (van Riemsdyk) 17:08.

Overtime—5, Pittsburgh, Letang 1 (Carter) 1:54.

Shots on Goal—Philadelphia 17-10-9-2—38.

Pittsburgh 8-16-10-2—36.

Power-play opportunities—Philadelphia 1 of 3.

Pittsburgh 0 of 2.

Goalies—Philadelphia Hart 3-2-2 (36 shots-33 saves). Pittsburgh Jarry 4-2-1 (38-36).

A—17,037 (18,387). T—2:31.

GF GA 41 22 27 30 30 32 28 22 23 21 30 39 25 35 24 40 GF GA 37 15 24 22 36 27 30 24 28 26 23 20 29 27 21 25 GF GA 31 18 27 30 32 29 28 29 28 32 18 26 25 42 13 42 GF GA 39 23 31 18 27 22 35 35 26 31 27 29 25 27 25 33

NBA roundup: Celtics end Heat’s five-game win streak Field Level Media Jaylen Brown scored 17 points to lead six Boston scorers in double figures as the visiting Celtics routed the Miami Heat 95-78 on Thursday, using an impressive defensive effort to snap the Heat’s five-game winning streak.

Dennis Schroder scored 14 points, Aaron Nesmith had 13 and Romeo Langford chipped in 12 for Boston, which won its second straight following a threegame losing streak.

Miami, which entered the contest averaging a league-high 115.6 points, recorded a seasonlow point total and shot 34.6 percent from the field and 9 of 41 (22 percent) from 3-point range.

Jimmy Butler scored 20 points, Duncan Robinson had 16 and Bam Adebayo recorded 13 points and seven rebounds for Miami.

Lowry committed six of the team’s 18 turnovers. Kyle Lowry had six points for Miami before leaving at the end of the third quarter due to a sprained left ankle.

76ers 109, Pistons 98 Seth Curry had 23 points, Tyrese Maxey supplied 20 and visiting Philadelphia pulled away from struggling Detroit for its fifth straight victory.

Joel Embiid contributed 19 points and nine rebounds for the 76ers while Shake Milton tossed in 16 points with eight rebounds and five assists. Georges Niang chipped in 14 points and seven rebounds off the bench for Philadelphia, which played without starters Tobias Harris and Danny Green.

Jerami Grant had 27 points, six rebounds and four assists for the Pistons, who were limited to 32 second-half points. Cade Cunningham, the top pick of the draft, recorded his first doubledouble with 18 points and 10

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rebounds despite 4-for-17 shooting from the field.

Jazz 116, Hawks 98 Jordan Clarkson came off the bench to score a season-high 30 points and lead visiting Utah past Atlanta to its third straight win.

Clarkson was 10-for-19 from the field and made four 3-point baskets. He combined with Joe Ingles, who had a season-high 19, to offset the absence of Donovan Mitchell (24.9 points per game), who missed the game with a right ankle sprain.

Trae Young led the Hawks with 21 points, though he hit just 8 of 20 field-goal attempts and missed all four of his 3-point tries. Clint Capela contributed 13 points and 10 rebounds.

Suns 123, Rockets 111 Devin Booker recorded 27 points, nine rebounds and five assists to help Phoenix beat visiting Houston.

Landry Shamet scored 19 points off the bench, Deandre

Ayton added 16 points and 11 rebounds and Mikal Bridges also scored 16 points as the Suns won their third consecutive game.

Kevin Porter Jr. scored 20 points and Christian Wood added 18 points and 15 rebounds for the Rockets, who lost their sixth straight game.

Thunder 107, Lakers 104 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 28 points, capped by a 34-foot 3-pointer with 1:18 remaining, as visiting Oklahoma City continued to find success against Los Angeles.

Luguentz Dort added 17 points as the Thunder defeated the Lakers for the second time in nine days. They are the only two victories for Oklahoma City in eight tries this season.

Russell Westbrook had 27 points for the Lakers, and Carmelo Anthony had 21 off the bench.

LeBron James did not play due to an abdominal strain that is expected to sideline him for a week.

Panthers 5, Capitals 4 (OT) Washington 0 3 1 0 — 4 Florida 2 2 0 1 — 5 First Period—1, Florida, Barkov 6 (Duclair, Verhaeghe) 3:07. 2, Florida, Ekblad 4 (unassisted) 11:04.

Second Period—3, Washington, Sprong 2 (Mantha) 0:43. 4, Florida, Montour 2 (Forsling, Marchment) 7:16. 5, Florida, Barkov 7 (Hornqvist, Huberdeau) 15:32 (pp). 6, Washington, Ovechkin 10 (Eller) 18:11. 7, Washington, Wilson 1 (Carlson, Ovechkin) 19:43.

Third Period—8, Washington, McMichael 1 (Ovechkin, Leason) 6:56.

Overtime—9, Florida, Luostarinen 3 (Forsling, Reinhart) 1:55.

Shots on Goal—Washington 13-19-10-0—42.

Florida 14-12-5-2—33.

Power-play opportunities—Washington 0 of 2.

Florida 1 of 3.

Goalies—Washington Samsonov 3-0-1 (18 shots-15 saves), Vanecek 0-0-0 (15-13). Florida Bobrovsky 6-0-0 (13-13), Knight 0-0-0 (29-25).

Golden Knights 5, Senators 1 Vegas 0 3 2 — 5 Ottawa 0 1 0 — 1 First Period—None.

Second Period—1, Vegas, Carrier 2 (Dadonov, Stephenson) 4:31. 2, Vegas, Howden 1 (Theodore, Rondbjerg) 11:21. 3, Vegas, Marchessault 3 (Roy, Hague) 12:25. 4, Ottawa, Tkachuk 2 (Zub, Batherson) 15:50.

Third Period—5, Vegas, Pietrangelo 1 (Smith, Roy) 14:01. 6, Vegas, Marchessault 4 (Janmark) 17:10 (en).

Shots on Goal—Vegas 11-16-12—39. Ottawa 1612-11—39.

Power-play opportunities—Vegas 0 of 1. Ottawa 0 of 1.

Goalies—Vegas Lehner 3-5-0 (42 shots-41 saves).

Ottawa Gustavsson 2-1-1 (40-36).

A—13,211 (17,000). T—2:19.

Transactions BASEBALL

NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT SO Pts Florida 10 9 0 0 1 19 Toronto 11 6 4 1 0 13 Tampa Bay 10 5 3 1 1 12 Buffalo 9 5 3 1 0 11 Boston 8 5 3 0 0 10 Detroit 11 4 5 2 0 10 Ottawa 10 3 6 1 0 7 Montreal 12 3 9 0 0 6 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT SO Pts Carolina 9 9 0 0 0 18 N.Y. Rangers 10 6 2 2 0 14 Washington 10 5 1 4 0 14 Philadelphia 9 5 2 1 1 12 Columbus 9 6 3 0 0 12 N.Y. Islanders 8 4 2 1 1 10 Pittsburgh 9 4 3 1 1 10 New Jersey 8 4 3 0 1 9 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT SO Pts St. Louis 8 6 1 0 1 13 Minnesota 9 6 3 0 0 12 Winnipeg 9 5 2 2 0 12 Nashville 10 5 5 0 0 10 Colorado 9 4 4 1 0 9 Dallas 9 3 4 1 1 8 Chicago 11 1 8 2 0 4 Arizona 10 0 9 0 1 1 Pacific Division GP W L OT SO Pts Edmonton 9 8 1 0 0 16 Calgary 9 6 1 2 0 14 San Jose 9 6 3 0 0 12 Anaheim 11 4 4 2 1 11 Vegas 10 5 5 0 0 10 Los Angeles 10 4 5 1 0 9 Vancouver 10 4 5 0 1 9 Seattle 10 3 6 1 0 7 Tuesday’s games Toronto 4, Vegas 0 Montreal 3, Detroit 0 Philadelphia 3, Arizona 0 Minnesota 5, Ottawa 4, OT Winnipeg 4, Dallas 3, SO Nashville 3, Calgary 2, OT Vancouver 3, N.Y. Rangers 2, OT Anaheim 4, New Jersey 0 San Jose 5, Buffalo 3 Wednesday’s games Edmonton 5, Nashville 2 Carolina 4, Chicago 3 Columbus 5, Colorado 4, OT Los Angeles 3, St. Louis 2, SO Thursday’s games Boston 5, Detroit 1 Toronto 2, Tampa Bay 1, OT N.Y. Islanders 6, Montreal 2 Vegas 5, Ottawa 1 Florida 5, Washington 4, OT

Islanders 6, Canadiens 2 N.Y. Islanders 1 4 1 — 6 Montreal 0 0 2 — 2 First Period—1, NY Islanders, Nelson 3 (Palmieri, Beauvillier) 4:14.

Second Period—2, NY Islanders, Wahlstrom 5 (Cizikas) 3:31. 3, NY Islanders, Nelson 4 (Beauvillier, Chara) 12:25. 4, NY Islanders, Nelson 5 (Beauvillier) 15:23. 5, NY Islanders, Pageau 1 (Parise, Pulock) 18:08.

Third Period—6, Montreal, Suzuki 2 (Savard) 15:20 (sh). 7, Montreal, Toffoli 2 (Dvorak, Suzuki) 17:04 (pp). 8, NY Islanders, Nelson 6 (Parise, Pageau) 19:41 (en).

Shots on Goal—NY Islanders 12-13-11—36.

Montreal 10-13-15—38.

Power-play opportunities—NY Islanders 0 of 3.

Montreal 1 of 3.

Goalies—NY Islanders Sorokin 4-2-2 (38 shots-36 saves). Montreal Allen 3-7-0 (25-20), Montembeault 0-0-0 (10-10).

A—19,924 (21,273). T—2:29.

Philadelphia 0 1 1 0 — 2 Pittsburgh 1 1 0 1 — 3 First Period—1, Pittsburgh, McGinn 3 (Matheson, Aston-Reese) 0:16.

Second Period—2, Philadelphia, Konecny 4 (Giroux, Provorov) 7:37 (pp). 3, Pittsburgh, Guentzel 2 (Heinen, Marino) 11:46.

Third Period—4, Philadelphia, Laughton 3 (van Riemsdyk) 17:08.

Overtime—5, Pittsburgh, Letang 1 (Carter) 1:54.

Shots on Goal—Philadelphia 17-10-9-2—38.

Pittsburgh 8-16-10-2—36.

Power-play opportunities—Philadelphia 1 of 3.

Pittsburgh 0 of 2.

Goalies—Philadelphia Hart 3-2-2 (36 shots-33 saves). Pittsburgh Jarry 4-2-1 (38-36).

A—17,037 (18,387). T—2:31.

PHILADELPHIA (109) Maxey 8-12 2-2 20, Se.Curry 9-14 1-1 23, Milton 7-13 0-1 16, Thybulle 2-7 0-0 5, Embiid 6-15 7-8 19, Niang 4-11 3-4 14, Drummond 3-6 2-6 8, Reed 2-5 0-0 4. Totals 41-83 15-22 109.

DETROIT (98) Grant 11-22 3-3 27, Bey 3-8 0-0 7, Cunningham 4-17 9-10 18, Stewart 3-5 0-0 6, K.Hayes 4-8 0-0 10, Olynyk 4-10 1-2 11, Joseph 1-2 0-0 2, J.Jackson 2-4 2-2 7, F.Jackson 3-6 0-0 8, Lyles 0-4 2-2 2. Totals 35-86 17-19 98.

Philadelphia 31 32 23 23 —109 Detroit 32 34 16 16 — 98 3-Point Goals—Philadelphia 12-32 (Se.Curry 4-8, Niang 3-10, Maxey 2-4, Milton 2-5, Thybulle 1-4, Reed 0-1), Detroit 11-35 (K.Hayes 2-3, F.Jackson 2-4, Grant 2-6, Olynyk 2-6, J.Jackson 1-2, Bey 1-4, Cunningham 1-7, Stewart 0-1, Lyles 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Philadelphia 48 (Drummond 10), Detroit 42 (Cunningham 11). Assists—Philadelphia 22 (Maxey, Milton 5), Detroit 20 (Cunningham, Joseph 5). Total Fouls—Philadelphia 17 (Embiid, Milton, Niang 3), Detroit 18 (Olynyk 4). A—NA.

College football

Thursday’s games

Penguins 3, Flyers 2 (OT)

Thursday’s games

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Pittsburgh 3, Philadelphia 2, OT Dallas at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Buffalo at Seattle, 10 p.m.

St. Louis at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

Friday’s games Chicago at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.

Nashville at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

Arizona at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

New Jersey at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

National League Cincinnati Reds - Activated RHP Tejay Antone, CF Nick Senzel, and RHP Brandon Bailey from the 60day IL. Outrighted 1B Alex Blandino to Louisville (AAA-East).

Los Angeles Dodgers - Activated RHP Trevor Bauer from the restricted list.

Miami Marlins - Outrighted CF Magneuris Sierra to Jacksonville (AAA-East).

Milwaukee Brewers - Signed RHP Trevor Gott.

San Diego Padres - Outrighted RHP Dan Altavilla to El Paso (AAA-West).

PRO FOOTBALL National Football League Arizona Cardinals - Placed T Justin Murray on IR/ Designated for Return list.

Atlanta Falcons - Added LB Dorian Etheridge to the practice squad.

Chicago Bears - Cut LB Sam Kamara. Placed RB David Montgomery on IR/Designated for Return list.

Cincinnati Bengals - Acquired DB Vernon Hargreaves III off waivers from the Houston Texans.

Activated G Hakeem Adeniji from the non-football injury list. Waived LB Darius Hodge and DB Nick McCloud.

Cleveland Browns - Added RB Johnny Stanton to the practice squad.

Dallas Cowboys - Added DE Bradlee Anae to the practice squad.

Detroit Lions - Added G Tommy Kraemer to the practice squad. Removed DB Daryl Worley from the practice squad.

Green Bay Packers - Activated WR Davante Adams from the IR/COVID-19 list. Activated RB Patrick Taylor from the practice squad. Added QB Blake Bortles to the practice squad.

Houston Texans - Acquired LB Eric Wilson off waivers from the Philadelphia Eagles.

Indianapolis Colts - Activated WR Dezmon Patmon from the IR/Designated for return list. Activated DB Jahleel Addae from the practice squad.

Placed DB Khari Willis on IR. Las Vegas Raiders - Activated WR Dillon Stoner from the practice squad. Added LB Javin White to the practice squad. Cut WR Henry Ruggs III. Los Angeles Chargers - Placed LB Kenneth Murray Jr. on IR/Designated for Return list.

Los Angeles Rams - Cut WR DeSean Jackson.

Minnesota Vikings - Activated TE Luke Stocker from the practice squad. Added DE Nate Orchard to the practice squad. Placed C Garrett Bradbury on IR/COVID-19 list.

New York Giants - Activated LB Benardrick McKinney from the practice squad. Added DB Steven Parker to the practice squad. Placed RB Gary Brightwell on IR/COVID-19 list.

New York Jets - Activated DE Jabari Zuniga from the practice squad. Activated LB Hamsah Nasirildeen from the IR/Designated for return list. Activated QB Josh Johnson from the practice squad.

Added LB Noah Dawkins to the practice squad.

Placed DE Bryce Huff on IR. Philadelphia Eagles - Added T Brett Toth to the practice squad. Removed DB Craig James from the practice squad.

NHL roundup: Patrice Bergeron’s 4-goal game lifts Bruins past Wings Field Level Media Patrice Bergeron matched a franchise record with a trio of power-play goals and scored four total to help the Boston Bruins skate past the visiting Detroit Red Wings 5-1 on Thursday night.

Bergeron had been held without a goal during the Bruins’ first seven games. The Boston captain became the fifth player in team history to record a hat trick at age 36 or older, joining Hall of Famer Johnny Bucyk (six times), Jean Ratelle, Dit Clapper and Dave Andreychuk.

Mike Reilly also scored for the Bruins, who secured their second straight win. Boston rookie goalie Jeremy Swayman recorded 14 saves.

Red Wings rookie Lucas Raymond scored his fifth goal for his team-leading 10th point.

Thomas Greiss stopped 32 shots for Detroit, which took its fourth straight loss after winning four of seven to open the season.

Islanders 6, Canadiens 2 Brock Nelson scored a careerhigh four goals to lead New York over host Montreal.

The Islanders are on a sixgame (4-0-2) points streak, with all of those games coming away from home. Anthony Beauvillier matched a career best with three assists, Jean-Gabriel Pageau had a goal and an assist, and Oliver Wahlstrom also scored as part of New York’s four-goal second period.

Nick Suzuki and Tyler Toffoli scored third-period goals for the Canadiens, who had lost three of four.

Penguins 3, Flyers 2 (OT) Kris Letang scored at 1:54 of overtime and undermanned Pittsburgh downed visiting Philadelphia to snap a three-game losing streak.

Letang was making his return from a four-game absence with COVID-19. Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby, Brian Dumoulin, Marcus Pettersson and Chad Ruhwedel, and coach Mike Sullivan were all absent after testing positive for the coronavirus.

Brock McGinn and Jake Guentzel also scored for the Penguins,

and Pittsburgh goaltender Tristan Jarry made 36 saves. Travis Konecny and Scott Laughton scored and Carter made 33 saves for the Flyers.

Maple Leafs 2, Lightning 1 (OT) William Nylander scored on a power play at 2:43 of overtime, capping Toronto’s come-frombehind win over visiting Tampa Bay. John Tavares tied the game for Toronto in the final minute of regulation. Pat Maroon had put Tampa Bay on top in the first period.

Toronto went on the power play when Victor Hedman was called for slashing 57 seconds into the extra session. Nylander fired the game-winner from the left circle to extend Toronto’s winning streak to four games.

Panthers 5, Capitals 4 (OT) In a game that featured four goaltenders, Aleksander Barkov scored two goals as Florida remained hot with an overtime win over Washington in Sunrise, Fla. The Panthers have yet to lose in regulation this season.

The winning goal, which came with 3:05 left in OT, was credited to Eetu Luostarinen, as his pass went in off the stick of Washington’s Tom Wilson.

Barkov has seven goals this season, including five in his past three games. He also has 188 career goals, tying him with Olli Jokinen for the most in Panthers history. Washington’s Alex Ovechkin scored his league-leading 10th goal of the season. His 740 career goals place him one behind Brett Hull for fourth place on the all-time NHL list.

Golden Knights 5, Senators 1 Jonathan Marchessault scored two goals and Robin Lehner made 38 saves to lead visiting Vegas past Ottawa for its fourth win in five games.

William Carrier, Brett Howden and Alex Pietrangelo also scored for the Golden Knights, who improved to 4-0-0 all-time at Ottawa.

Brady Tkachuk scored for the Senators, who lost for the sixth time in seven games.

Filip Gustavsson finished with 34 saves.

Blues 5, Sharks 3 Brandon Saad scored twice and Pavel Buchnevich, James Neal and Robert Thomas tallied once apiece as visiting St. Louis rallied past San Jose.

Blues goaltender Joel Hofer made 23 saves and earned an assist while winning his NHL debut.

Brayden Schenn sustained an upper-body injury in the first period and did not return to the game.

Brent Burns, Logan Couture and Nick Merkley scored for the Sharks, whose two-game winning streak was snapped. Adin Hill made 23 saves.

Kraken 5, Sabres 2 Jordan Eberle scored the first hat trick in Kraken history, a natural one at that, as Seattle defeated visiting Buffalo.

Jaden Schwartz added an empty-net goal and two assists, Morgan Geekie also scored and Alex Wennberg had two helpers as the Kraken snapped a two-game losing streak. Goaltender Philipp Grubauer made 19 saves.

Tage Thompson and Kyle Okposo scored for the Sabres, who completed their four-game West Coast swing with a 1-3-0 record.

Dustin Tokarski stopped 33 of 37 shots.

Stars 4, Flames 3 (OT) Jamie Benn scored the overtime winner and Miro Heiskanen collected three assists as visiting Dallas snapped a four-game losing skid by beating Calgary.

Denis Gurianov, Blake Comeau and Tyler Seguin also scored for Dallas, and Anton Khudobin made 30 saves. The Stars have four wins this season, but none in regulation time.

Nikita Zadorov scored once in a two-point game for the Flames, while Milan Lucic and Matthew Tkachuk also tallied. Jacob Markstrom stopped 24 shots.

The Flames have lost two straight games in extra time, but they are on a nine-game point streak (6-03).

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Just like that, Jets backup Mike White’s storybook run thrown for a loss Bob Glauber Newsday INDIANAPOLIS — Mike White stood on the sidelines, holding a football in his left hand and wiggling the fingers on his right. Then making a fist and extending his fingers again. Over and over, as if he was willing to make the pain go away and render his throwing arm whole again.

At one point, he walked over to the bench to pick up his helmet and put it on, hoping that somehow, some way, he could get back on the field and continue to live the dream that began with a resplendent performance on Sunday in his NFL starting debut. Things could not have gotten off to a better beginning for White in that game against the Bengals, as he threw for 405 yards and three touchdowns, presided over an upset win of the Bengals and had his gameworn jersey shipped to the Pro Football Hall of Fame to be put on display.

But now, just minutes into Thursday night’s game against the Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium, he stood by helplessly after throwing a touchdown pass to Elijah Moore in the left corner of the end zone and continuing what felt like a storybook opening to his fledgling career as a starter until Zach Wilson’s return from a knee injury.

Just a few plays before White delivered the throw to Moore, who was left wide open after a miscommunication in the Colts’ secondary, the quarterback had been hit on his right arm by Colts defensive lineman DeForest Buckner. White played through it and celebrated his throw to Moore by pretending to shoot into the air with his fingers. But the pain eventually replaced the euphoria as White walked to the sidelines After being examined for several minutes by the Jets’ medical staff, it was backup Josh Johnson who donned his helmet to

activated Joe Flacco, who was acquired in a trade after Wilson was hurt, there would have been a better chance at putting some points on the board. But Flacco isn’t close to being the same quarterback who once won a Super Bowl with the Ravens, so even he couldn’t have been expected to match the Colts’ offense.

The Jets hope Wilson can return as early as next week against

the Bills at home, and the young quarterback took some practice reps hours before Thursday night’s game. He’s still in a brace, but he’d be functional enough once there is enough stability in the ligament.

The prognosis on White is less certain, so it appears as if his brief time as a starter may not blossom into a more extended look. Jets fans will have to recalibrate their expectations,

especially if Wilson founders as he did through a good chunk of his first six games.

Then again, perhaps Wilson will have learned from White’s time in the lineup to get rid of the ball quicker, to take what Robert Saleh calls the “boring” plays and to become a more impactful quarterback. And if that’s the case, then White’s shooting star moment as the Jets’ starter won’t have been in vain.

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New York Jets quarterback Mike White (5) warms up before Thursday’s game against the Indianapolis Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium.

replace the 26-year-old White.

A dream begun, and now a dream delayed.

White made the most of his opportunity against the Bengals, creating the kind of buzz that backups rarely produce and giving Jets fans at least something to hold onto until Wilson comes back. And the speculation machine went into high gear when the question of whether White might hold onto the job just a bit longer, even after Wilson was sufficiently healed from the posterior cruciate ligament injury he suffered in the Jets’ harrowing loss to the Patriots nearly two weeks ago.

Alas, White’s own injury problem now delays that kind of speculation. And the Jets, now 2-6 after what turned into a predictable loss to the Colts, are left to muddle through yet another rebuilding season. Maybe White would have been an afterthought anyway, because the Jets are fully committed to

Wilson, the No. 2 overall pick last April. But if he’d enjoyed the luxury of good health for longer than he had, then he would have at least made things interesting.

White looked terrific once again in his limited action against the Colts, going 7-for11 for 91 yards and showing the kind of field leadership that was so evident against the Bengals.

There was a terrific 26-yard pass over the middle to Moore that preceded his perfectly-placed scoring strike to the rookie receiver.

Neither Johnson nor the Jets’ defense distinguished themselves in White’s absence, as the Colts scored touchdowns on their first four drives and Johnson led the offense to just a field goal to make it 28-10 at the half. The 35-year-old Johnson has bounced around between a dozen NFL teams, a stint with the XFL and a league called the Alliance of American Football.

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Before we delve into Week 9, let’s back up a minute and applaud the backups for stellar Week 8 performances. Mike White got it started for the Jets, and Trevor Siemian (New Orleans), Geno Smith (Seattle) and Cooper Rush (Dallas) followed suit as four backup quarterbacks led their teams to wins. Three of the underdogs’ teams were also underdogs in the all-important point spread.

Let last week be a lesson that the NFL is the ultimate unpredictable league. This week, there’s another huge backup angle as the Packers are forced to start Jordan Love. Can he continue the trend?

Underdogs went 8-6 against the spread (ATS) last week - with seven winning outright - and lead, 63-56-2, for the season.

My most confident picks ATS this week are San Francisco, Tennessee Green Bay and the L.A. Chargers.

Stay away from Atlanta-New Orleans and Houston-Miami.

GAME OF THE WEEK GREEN BAY (7-1) AT KANSAS CITY (4-4) TV: Fox, 4:25 p.m.

Kansas City by 7.5; O/U: 48 This is what I wrote on Wednesday morning: Aaron Rodgers vs. Patrick Mahomes. The matchup has never materialized ... until now. Yeahhhhhh, about that. I checked Twitter a few minutes later and saw the bombshell report that Rodgers had not only tested positive for the virus, but he was unvaccinated and ruled out for Sunday’s game. Enter Jordan Love, the Pack backup I know nothing about other than Rodgers wasn’t happy when Green Bay drafted him.

This spread went from basically a pick ‘em to KC as a big favorite.

Here’s the thing: The Packers can still win this game! As you saw on MNF against the Giants, KC is no longer a super team and the blueprint is out there defensively and offensively to stop Mahomes (NFL-high 10 INTs) and that once powerful machine.

Green Bay (seven-game win streak, 6-0-1 run ATS) had the most impressive win of the ENTIRE season last week at unbeaten Arizona. The way its defense has played, plus its running game led by Aaron Jones and AJ Dillon means this will be closer than most think. Matt LaFleur will devise a smart game plan to give the Pack a strong chance at another surprising road win when everyone least expects it.

The pick: Green Bay 1 P.M. GAMES LAS VEGAS (5-2) AT GIANTS (2-6) Las Vegas by 3; O/U: 46.5

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Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) throws a pass during the first half against the New York Giants at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on Monday.

This is the ultimate trap game for the Raiders. Off a bye and hosting Kansas City in prime time next week, they get a Giant sandwich in between. The Raiders are 2-0 without Jon Gruden and rested while Big Blue just lost a tough one on MNF, so the visitors should win, right? Well, the last time a five-win team should have won at MetLife Stadium, the Bengals lost to the Jets just last week. Speaking of the Jets, the Raiders’ last two trips to New Jersey were a 34-3 loss in 2019 and last year’s miracle 31-28 win. If the Giants can get their heads set and quit making unforced errors, they can serve up an upset win. Call it Giants 24, Raiders 20.

The pick: Giants DENVER (4-4) AT DALLAS (6-1) Dallas by 10; O/U: 49.5 Even if Dak Prescott doesn’t play, Dallas can cover against an overmatched Denver team. The Cowboys are the only team undefeated ATS (7-0), and at this point, keep riding them until they give you a reason not to.

The pick: Dallas MINNESOTA (3-4) AT BALTIMORE (5-2) Baltimore by 6; O/U: 50 The Ravens are 10-3 after their bye week under coach John Harbaugh.

That’s a great stat but I’m not the biggest believer in trends because there are so many variables (they lost after their bye last year). Minnesota’s four losses are by 3, 1, 7 and 4 points. The Vikings love to play close games and frustrate their fans. This feels like another three-point loss.

The pick: Minnesota CLEVELAND (4-4) AT CINCINNATI (5-3) Cincinnati by 2.5; O/U: 47 This battle of Ohio favors the hosts. Yes, they just lost as a doubledigit favorite against the Jets, but that was last week. In fact, a humbling loss like that only makes me like Cincy more in this spot. The Browns are a mess, from Baker Mayfield’s injury and Odell Beckham Jr.’s drama, to last week’s 10-point showing at home. Joe Burrow threw for six TDs against the Browns last year in a pair of losses (35-30 and 37-34). He will have another big day, only this time in a win.

The pick: Cincinnati NEW ENGLAND (4-4) AT CAROLINA (4-4) New England by 3.5; O/U: 41 New England is getting hot at the right time and could make a playoff push. Carolina snapped a four-game skid last week but Sam Darnold (concussion protocol) may not play. He’s

0-3 against Bill Belichick with six INTs, though, so maybe the Panthers are better off if he sits this one out.

The pick: New England ATLANTA (3-4) AT NEW ORLEANS (5-2) New Orleans by 6.5; O/U: 42 The Saints have won six of the last seven meetings and should prevail again no matter who starts at quarterback. It’s a division battle, though, and those are usually tricky. Atlanta, a team I’ve backed just once all season, keeps this close.

The pick: Atlanta BUFFALO (5-2) AT JACKSONVILLE (1-6) Buffalo by 14.5; O/U: 48.5 The Bills would’ve covered this number in all five of their wins: 35-0, 43-21, 40-0, 38-20 an 26-11. Make it six.

The pick: Buffalo HOUSTON (1-7) AT MIAMI (1-7) Miami by 5.5; O/U: 46.5 Neither team has won since Week 1. Even the off-the-field trade rumors between the two turned out to be a lose-lose. In a lost season, this could be Tua Tagovailoa’s lone shot at a big win.

The pick: Miami 4 P.M. GAMES LOCK OF THE WEEK ARIZONA (7-1) AT

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SAN FRANCISCO (3-4) San Francisco by 1; O/U: 45 This is one of the more intriguing matchups of the week. Arizona showed it was far from perfect in losing to the undermanned Packers on TNF last week. Kyler Murray is banged up, and this is a tough spot against a 49ers team that needs the game more. San Francisco dropped the first meeting, 17-10, but it was a 10-7 game midway through the fourth quarter. Rookie Trey Lance started that game and moved the ball well early but got no points. With Jimmy Garoppolo back, and the 49ers at home knowing this is probably their season, expect an all-out effort and win.

The pick: San Francisco L.A. CHARGERS (4-3) AT PHILADELPHIA (3-5) L.A. Chargers by 1.5; O/U: 50 Don’t be fooled by the Eagles’ 446 win at winless Detroit. They’re 0-3 at home and the Chargers are 2-1 on the road. This is a “get-right” game for L.A. as it snaps a two-game skid.

When it’s this small a spread, always go with the better QB-coach combo, and this one is lopsided in favor of Justin Herbert and Brandon Staley.

The pick: L.A. Chargers SUNDAY NIGHT TENNESSEE (6-2) AT L.A. RAMS (7-1) TV: NBC, 8:20 p.m.

L.A. Rams by 7.5; O/U: 53.5 The Titans lost Derrick Henry. The Rams added Von Miller. L.A. in a runaway, right? Not so fast. The lookahead line was Rams -4, and now it’s nearly double that?! When there’s an inflated line, it’s time to pounce.

Teams have a tendency of rallying around losing a star player, and Mike Vrabel is the perfect guy to feed off the whole underdog angle. The Rams are my Super Bowl pick, but let’s not forget they were in a dogfight with the winless Lions a couple weeks ago.

This will be a close game -- not Kevin Dyson-tackled-at-the-1 close in the teams’ Super Bowl XXXIV meeting -- but one-score-difference-in-thefourth-quarter close.

The pick: Tennessee MONDAY NIGHT CHICAGO (3-5) AT PITTSBURGH (4-3) TV: ESPN, 8:15 p.m.

Pittsburgh by 6.5; O/U: 40 The Steelers have won three in a row but they average just under 19 points, so I’m not thrilled laying a touchdown-plus. Still, this is a tough assignment for rookie Justin Fields: on the road, prime time, against an aggressive defense. Throw the (terrible) towel!

The pick: Pittsburgh

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Giants take extreme measures in face of COVID-19 ‘lab irregularity’ Pat Leonard New York Daily News

NEW YORK — A second straight day of numerous false positive COVID-19 tests prompted the Giants to push Thursday’s meetings virtual and to temporarily drop the use of the rapid Mesa test administered by BioReference Laboratories.

Dr. Allen Sills, the NFL’s chief medical officer, said the league believes a “lab irregularity” was responsible for 12 potential false positives Tuesday and “a good amount” more on Thursday, in Joe Judge’s words.

Running backs coach Burton Burns was the only confirmed positive from Wednesday’s PCR tests who will definitely miss Sunday’s game against the Las Vegas Raiders.

Rookie Gary Brightwell joined fellow running back Saquon Barkley and free safety Xavier McKinney on the COVID-19 reserve list Thursday. But left guard Matt Skura was back on the field after a false alarm on Wednesday.

There were even players and coaches who tested

positive on Thursday morning, were sent home, then re-tested negative, allowing them to report for practice in the afternoon.

“This has been, obviously, a different type of day,” Judge said.

Sills told NFL Network that the league is “working very closely with the Giants” to address the “testing irregularity” at Bio-Reference Laboratories.

Bio-Reference Laboratories brought two mobile testing van stations to East Rutherford, N.J., on Thursday and parked them in front of the Giants’ COVID-19 testing trailer.

The purpose was to increase testing capacity and to administer PCR tests, rather than the rapid Mesa test. The results of PCR tests take longer to come back, but they are more accurate than the rapid test on average and can help the Giants sort out real positives from false ones.

The Giants canceled infacility meetings for players, closed their office to nonfootball staff and pushed all media interviews virtual for

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the day.

And Judge said he told his Giants (2-6) there will be no excuses come Sunday when the Raiders (5-2) visit MetLife Stadium: they have to be ready for anything.

“I’ve told the coaches and players that everyone’s got to be ready,” Judge said. “I’ve told the coaches we could get to Sunday morning and they could tell us we lost a dozen people. I don’t want to hear any excuses. Have the next

guy ready to go. Have a game plan ready that includes changing personnel, changing scheme. Whatever we have to do, be very fluid in this.”

Clarifying who is available could be tricky, and it’s possible some players could be out Sunday due to the testing irregularities or actual positive tests.

Barkley and McKinney were still in the COVID-19 protocol on Thursday, for

example, because they tested positive on two rapid Mesa tests on Tuesday and Wednesday. Both players’ PCR tests came back negative on Wednesday, but they were required to take another PCR on Thursday and maybe a third on Friday to confirm a false positive.

Skura, on the other hand, had two different rapid Mesa test results: a positive on Tuesday and a negative on Wednesday. So once Skura’s PCR tests came back negative on Wednesday and Thursday, he was allowed to return to the practice field.

Barkley is still hobbled by a left ankle injury that should keep him out of Sunday’s game against the Raiders.

McKinney is unvaccinated, which means one positive PCR result would rule him out against Las Vegas.

But the Giants were preparing for all scenarios and pressing on.

Julian Love projects for a heavier load at safety if McKinney is out. J.R. Reed could enter the rotation after last week’s signing off the L.A. Rams’ practice squad.

Kenny Golladay (knee) was a sight for sore eyes, returning to practice for the first time since his Oct. 10 injury in Dallas.

The team activated linebacker Benardrick McKinney as a COVID-19 replacement on Thursday, and they resigned corner Steven Park to the practice squad.

The full injury report, meanwhile, reinforced the odds stacked against Judge’s team in their final game before the Week 10 bye: Did not practice: Barkley (ankle/COVID), WR Sterling Shepard (quad), FS Xavier McKinney (COVID), RB Gary Brightwell (COVID), edge Lorenzo Carter (ankle), safety Nate Ebner (ankle), Dante Pettis (shoulder), Kyle Rudolph (personal).

Limited: Golladay (knee), WR Kadarius Toney (thumb), WR John Ross (quad), TE Kaden Smith (knee).

The team also said practice squad offensive lineman Isaiah Wilson was absent due to a non-COVID-19-related illness. It is the second time in three weeks Wilson has been out with such an illness.

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San Francisco Giants great Buster Posey made it official Thursday, announcing his retirement from pro ball after 12 years, three World Series titles and a Most Valuable Player award.

The central theme to Posey’s farewell was family.

“It’s a lot more than just winning or losing games, although the wins do feel a lot better, it’s about the time spent with family, the countless nights and days pulling for your team, riding the emotions of the highs, riding the emotions of the lows, and ultimately enjoying the people that you’re with along

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red zone and Jayden Johnson crossed the goal line on a shovel pass from Suits for the touchdown. Canajoharie missed the kick again and it remained 12-0 to end the first quarter.

Less than two minutes into the second period, Suits connected with Johnson for another touchdown through the air.

The Mustangs’ next possession was nearly identical to their last as they moved the ball enough to earn one first down, and then turned it over on fourth down again with Fisher being tackled. This was not the first time the pocket collapsed on Lucas Fisher

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of Carlos Correa, Trevor Story, Corey Seager or Marcus Semien, who vaulted into top-tier status this year, are not only going to cost a lot of money, they are going to require longer-term commitments. Two of the Yankees’ top prospects -- Anthony Volpe and Oswaldo Peraza -- are shortstops the Yankees would likely have to commit to moving if they bring in a superstar shortstop.

At just 27, Correa is going to be a foundation for an organization for years to come when he signs this winter. He will be a solid building block having slashed .279/.366/.485 with 26 home runs this season.

He’s rated as one of the league’s best with the glove for the past few seasons. He finished the 2021 regular season with the top WAR

the way and making great memories together,” Posey said.

Posey, who has four children with his wife, Kristen, said he’s going to be a “full-time Dad.” “I’m definitely just going to take some time with my wife, talk with her and be able to be a full-time dad of four kids for the first time in a while,” Posey said. “I’m just going to take it slow and see how things progress.”

The seven-time All-Star catcher was the face of a franchise that won three World Series titles during his 12-year career. He won National League MVP honors in 2012.

The 34-year-old Posey batted .304 with 18 homers and 56 RBIs in 113 games this season.

He was an All-Star for a team that won a major league-best 107 games during the regular season before being eliminated by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL Divisional Series.

Posey batted .302 with 158 homers and 729 RBIs in 1,371 games with the Giants, first reaching the majors late in the 2009 season.

Posey was NL Rookie of the Year in 2010, a season that ended with the Giants beating the Texas Rangers to win one of their three World Series titles during a five-season span.

“I’m so very humbled to have played a part in some of those memories,” Posey said.

Posey played just 45 games the following season after sustaining a severe ankle injury during a collision at home plate. But he returned to win MVP honors in 2012 when he won the batting title with a .336 average and had 24 homers and 103 RBIs. All turned out to be career-best figures.

The Giants held a club option of $22 million on Posey for 2022 with a $3 million buyout.

Posey batted .252 with five homers and 25 RBIs in 58 career postseason games.

as CCD’s offensive line was just not blocking through the whistle, and stopping in the middle of the play.

The Cougars scored once more before halftime, and took a 24-0 lead over the Mustangs into the break.

CCD came out of the break with renewed energy and forced a turnover on downs by the Cougars when Makhai Henry put a huge hit on the ball carrier in the flat, firing up the CCD sideline and the home crowd.

The Mustangs could not capitalize however and their offense went three and out.

After punting back to Canajoharie, the Mustangs soon gave up another Cougars touchdown that widened the lead to 30-0.

The fourth quarter began with the Cougars in the

middle of their drive and they extended it to burn over four minutes off of the game clock.

With 7:52 left in the game, the Cougars put offensive guard Noah Norton in at tailback, and he took the handoff up the middle and into the end zone for the touchdown. After missing their sixth extra point, the Cougars had a 36-0 lead and had the game put away in the final quarter.

With one last attempt to mount some offense, the Mustangs turned it back over on downs once again, and the Cougars had 2:53 to run off the clock. After a few successful running plays netted them a first down, the Canajoharie Cougars took a quarterback kneel with under 30 seconds to run off and they secured the 36-0 victory over the Catskill/ Cairo-Durham Mustangs.

Catskill/Cairo-Durham’s Markus Henry (1) carries the ball during Thursday’s game against Canajoharie at Catskill High School.

according to Baseball Reference.

But Correa was also the face of the Astros’ 2017-18 cheating scandal, which still burns the Yankees. It’s hard to imagine Correa in a Yankees clubhouse full of players who were very vocal in their belief the Astros cheated them out of a trip to the World Series.

Seager has seemed like the best fit for the Yankees, who are committed to diversifying their lineup with more lefty hitters. Seager, the 2020 World Series MVP, has a power bat, rarely strikes out and draws walks.

Seager hit .306/.394/.521 over 407 plate appearances this season, missing time with a fractured right hand.

His glove has always been rated average to slightly below average the last few seasons, but his proven offense has been able to overcome that.

Semien moved to second base last year with the Blue Jays, but said he still considers himself a shortstop

heading into free agency.

Semien led MLB with 724 plate appearances, and he hit a .265/.334/.538 with 45 home runs, the fourth most in the majors, and stole 15 bases.

The Yankees have long been linked to Story in trade rumors, but that interest seemingly has fizzled out. There are plenty of reasons for that in 2021, including some horrible road-home splits that could keep his market down. At Coors Field, Story hit .296/.365/.515 with an .880 OPS. Away from the Mile High city, Story hit .203/.292/.426 with a .717 OPS, which should raise some concerns. His .251/.329/.471 slash line in 2021 was his worst since 2017.

Two other intriguing options, who would cost less in terms of time and money, would be Javier Baez and Chris Taylor.

Baez struggled in 2020 and to start 2021, but finished strong with the Mets.

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Buster Posey (28) of the San Francisco Giants speaks at a press conference announcing his retirement from Major League Baseball at Oracle Park on Thursday in San Francisco.

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He hits for power, runs the bases well and is an excellent defensive shortstop.

Taylor hasn’t played much shortstop over the last few years, but that was his primary position coming up with the Mariners.

He played 23 games there this season for the Dodgers. He’s an above-average hitter and is considered a decent defensive shortstop. He showed his ability to play on the big stage in the postseason. He hit.476/.542/1.048 with three homers in the National League Championship Series.

With the belief that Volpe and Peraza could be on the fast track to the majors, predicted to arrive in 2023, the Yankees could also look to fill the void with a shorter term deal by signing a competent, veteran shortstop. Freddy Galvis and Andrelton Simmons are available.

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Single woman struggles to connect in new community Dear Abby, I have been living in a 55-plus community in Florida for several years. I’m a single woman, and I moved here for the weather and to meet new friends. In this comDEAR ABBY munity, there are “cliques.”

One does everything together and never includes anyone else. The other is a combination of full-time residents and seasonal residents.

I’m “friendly” with almost everyone in each group. I work with them on committees, in clubs, etc. However, when it comes to socializing in the evenings or at the beach or parties, I’m seldom included by either group. One person told me it was because I’m single; another told me they didn’t want me to feel out of place because it was couples. Is this friendship, or should I look for friends elsewhere?

Ready, Willing And Able

JEANNE PHILLIPS

No, this is not “friendship.” You wrote that one of these cliques isn’t open to new members.

The women in the second group may not welcome you because they feel threatened by your single status, which is why you are welcomed to “work” with them but not socialize. It’s sad really, and more of a reflection on them than on you.

By all means look for friends elsewhere, possibly in groups in which there are other singles. If you do, I’m sure you will have better luck.

Dear Abby, My son, daughter-in-law and 1-year-old granddaughter moved across the country two years ago and have not once come to see us.

They promised they would come as often as they could or, I should say, as often as she went to see her parents, which is every four months or so.

They now have a brand-new baby we haven’t seen due to COVID-19. We bought them a special iPad to FaceTime with, but it hasn’t been used, nor do they ever call us. They

actually didn’t speak to us for nine months over a perceived slight.

Now they want us to come visit them. We desperately want to see our grandchildren. They know us only as the “package people” because we send gifts.

Please help us figure out what to do. Our son hasn’t spoken to his dad in seven months because of this perceived wrong.

We feel it will be really uncomfortable for all of us.

To Go Or Not To Go The longer this estrangement lasts, the more embedded it will become. You need to go, see your grandchildren and mend fences, if possible. Regardless of how the visit turns out, at the least you will have seen your grandchildren. If you make the effort, it may start your family on the path of healing.

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Dear Abby, When dining out in restaurants I often see people stack their dirty dishes at the table before or as the server removes them. This has never seemed right to me. Do I need to change my view of table manners?

Binnie In Iowa Try to be a bit less judgmental. Although what you describe is considered a breach of etiquette, there are people who are averse to having dirty dishes in front of them once they have finished eating. In a formal dining establishment, the server should be asked to remove the empty plates.

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Dear Readers: Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday. Don’t forget to turn your clocks back one hour at bedtime tonight. And while you’re at it, put fresh batteries in your fire alarms and smoke detectors. — Love, Abby Zits

Horoscope

Dark Side of the Horse

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are not always as direct and straightforward as you might be, and this can be the cause of some difficulty in your life as you end up navigating situations that are either created or exacerbated by your indirect and even rather “slippery” approach. Learn to face your troubles head-on and they are likely to evaporate entirely — or at least not trouble you quite so much, or quite so consistently!

On the other hand, there is something in your nature that allows you to adjust and bend to fit situations as they arise — and this is not deception, but adaptation of a kind that often gives you an important advantage over others.

You rarely get stuck doing things the same ways over and over again.

Also born on this date are: Emma Stone, actress; Pat Tillman, football player and soldier; Kelly Rutherford, actress; Thandie Newton, actress; Rebecca Romijn, model and actress; Ethan Hawke, actor and author; Maria Shriver, journalist; Sally Field, 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, NOVEMBER 7 SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — It’s been a while since you had to address a certain issue, but today you’ll be able to deal with it once and for all. Be courageous!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — It’s a good day for putting others before yourself, at least for a time. You are naturally generous, and you’ve much to give today.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Unless you have something specific to offer, you must do your best to keep your mouth shut and your ears

open. You’ll get your turn.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — A return to the “status quo” isn’t likely to be complete today, simply because you and others are still in the grip of certain circumstances.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Collaborative efforts promise healthy returns, but that depends in large part upon your ability to compromise. Be honest with yourself.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You’ll find yourself running something of a marathon today, when what you expected was a sprint. Be realistic, and pace yourself.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — An encounter with someone who approaches things very differently from the way you do may stir things up some, but nothing really gets out of hand.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You can reach most of the goals you had set for yourself today, even though your understanding of prevailing circumstances is more complete.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — It’s time to move forward with a plan that you concocted quite some time ago. Things you’ve talked about before once more come to the surface.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You’ll identify the perfect place to start today — and if you do, you’ll make unexpected headway. Not all things offer the same rewards.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You are likely to encounter some bumps in the road, but your journey today should be fulfilling, despite any brief moments of difficulty.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You may have to put a few difficult concepts into words today, and the challenge will be to express yourself simply yet thoroughly at all times.

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A massive sandworm emerges from beneath the sand in search of prey in “Dune.”

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‘Let It Be’ tops charts again 1970 Beatles album reissued in deluxe special edition

By KARU F. DANIELS New York Daily News

‘DUNE’

DEFIES PARADIGMS Timothee Chalamet stars as Paul Atreides. Warner Bros. Pictures

Frank Herbert’s epic science fiction series gets a movie that is hypnotically beautiful, but is that enough?

By MICHAEL PHILLIPS Chicago Tribune

On screen, Frank Herbert’s Baron Harkonnen-sized 1965 novel “Dune” best suits a director operating in a pre-”Star Wars” mode of storytelling.

The patient, densely embroidered narrative invests heavily in themes of environmental, ecological and colonialist exploitation. Earnest sentiments such as “When you take a life, you take your own” go against the grain of most successful Hollywood-financed science-fiction forays. Even in a post-”Star Wars” smash such as “Avatar,” still the biggest hit in the universe, the point — setting aside the anguish over genocidal imperialist conquerors — is how many enemies a noble warrior can kill under pressure, in a hurry, so that we feel good and (per “Star Wars”) wouldn’t mind putting quarters in the same game again right away.

“Dune” defies all that. So does its latest screen adaptation, a lot of

If you’re at all interested in what a reliably compelling, stubbornly solemn commercial filmmaker can do with money, imagination and no little nerve, “Dune” is epic enough, says one reviewer. Warner Bros. Pictures

which I love.

The director/co-writer Denis Villeneuve takes on less than half of Herbert’s first “Dune” novel. He and his vast army of design and effects collaborators have created a feat of visual and aural hypnosis.

When the sandworms on the desert planet Arrakis rise to the surface, the toothsome sight isn’t for fright or gotchas but, rather, wonderment.

When teen messiah Paul Atreides and cohorts board an ornithopter, the eight-blade dragonflyesque aircraft soars in more ways than one; it’s a triumph, one among hundreds, of digital magic, convincingly roughhewn design and a soundscape that is truly a feat of subtle brilliance.

At one point on Arrakis, the ecologist Kynes (handled with force and sublime authority by Sharon Duncan-Brewster, in a gender-switched role from the novel) says: “If you get a little higher, you’ll get a better view.” The movie, premiering See DUNE C2

‘Dune’ fans forced to wait 2 years until sequel release Bloomberg

Fans of the box-office topping sci-fi movie “Dune” will have to wait two years for the next installment, with the sequel set to be released in October 2023.

Production company Legendary Entertainment, owned by Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group Co., announced “Dune Part Two” in a tweet Wednesday. The sequel is scheduled to be released in October 2023, U.S. media including the Hollywood Reporter said, citing a statement from Legendary and Warner Bros.

Starring Academy Award-nominated actor Timothée Chalamet and Emmy Award winner Zendaya, “Dune” took the No. 1 spot in U.S. and Canadian theaters with $41 million in ticket sales. It has grossed $223 million worldwide, ranking it 13th in global box office this year, according to industry tracking platform Box Office Mojo.

More than five decades after its initial release, The Beatles’ final studio album has made a major comeback to the music charts.

“Let It Be,” which became No. 1 on the Billboard 200 upon its May 1970 release, has returned to the coveted chart (at No. 5) after a deluxe special edition reissue went on sale Oct. 15.

The “50th Anniversary Edition” of the acclaimed album — yielding the singles “Get Back,” “The Long and Winding Road” and the iconic title track — also hit the top spot on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart.

According to Billboard’s MRC Data, the 12-track reissue earned 55,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 21.

The Fab Four’s 12th studio album spent four weeks atop the Billboard 200 (from June 13 to July 4, 1970-dated charts) and is one of a record 19 No. 1 albums for the groundbreaking English rock band.

Produced by Phil Spector, “Let It Be” last ranked on the Billboard 200 in 2010.

‘Dune’ tops box office in opening week Film impresses with a solid $40.1 million after year delay due to pandemic

By CHRISTI CARRAS Los Angeles Times

“Dune” opened in first place at the box office with an impressive $40.1 million, according to estimates from measurement firm Comscore.

After the COVID-19 pandemic delayed its opening for nearly a year, “Dune” launched simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max October 22 — in keeping with Warner Bros.’ hybrid release strategy.

Directed by Oscar nominee Denis Villeneuve, “Dune” stars Timothee Chalamet as the heir to the powerful Atreides empire, engaged in a political war over the desert planet Arrakis, or Dune. Also among the star-studded cast are Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Jason Momoa, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgard, Sharon Duncan-Brewster and Oscar Isaac. It was well-received with an A- CinemaScore and an 83% “fresh” score on review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes.

Notably, the studio blockbuster marks the first collaboration between rising A-listers Chalamet and Zendaya, who have been busy charming the socks off of fans and journalists alike while promoting the film in recent weeks.

Riding on the performance of “Dune” is a potential sequel, which Villeneuve and the cast have expressed a desire to make, though it has yet to be greenlighted by Warner Bros.

The long-anticipated tentpole, based on Frank Herbert’s classic novel of the same name, first premiered in September at the Venice Film Festival, where it drew rave reviews.

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Pretty and playful but with little genuine curiosity ‘The French Dispatch’ pays tribute to the New Yorker founder

‘THE FRENCH DISPATCH’ 2 out of 4 stars INDUSTRY RATING: R, for graphic nudity, sexual references and strong language.

RUNNING TIME: 1 hour, 43 minutes WHERE TO WATCH: In theaters

By ANN HORNADAY Washington Post

Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” pays oblique but ferociously detailed tribute to the New Yorker, a magazine its founding editor, Harold Ross, famously declared would not cater to the taste of the “old lady from Dubuque,” but which wound up bringing a frisson of East Coast sophistication to Midwestern households for a generation, infiltrating the imaginations of culture-hungry teenagers and filling them with dreams of conquering Manhattan themselves one day.

That powerful transfer of postwar values is only briefly acknowledged in “The French Dispatch,” which features Bill Murray as Arthur Howitzer Jr., the Ross-like editor of the titular magazine, which is published in the fictional French town of Ennui-sur-Blasé. “He brought the world to Kansas,” Angelica Huston’s narrator declares with typical Andersonian authority. The inciting incident of the film is Howitzer’s demise, with the rest of the movie making up a special edition of his most memorable

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simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max, does the hallucinating for you. If you’re at all interested in what a reliably compelling, stubbornly solemn commercial filmmaker can do with money, imagination and no little nerve, “Dune” is epic enough — even if there’s a wee hole in the middle, where a more compelling protagonist belongs.

Timothee Chalamet is the wee hole. This is somewhat surprising, since the young actor has done so well in both period and contemporary material in recent years. Maybe it’s my fatigue with Chosen One fantasies. Partly it’s director Villeneuve’s pictorial framing of Chalamet in repose, in

Bill Murray stars as Arthur Howitzer Jr. in “The French Dispatch.”

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collaborations with his stable of famously eccentric writers.

The omnibus includes a winsome portrait of Ennui, past and future; a profile of a temperamental artist and his unlikely muse; an intimate account of a revolutionary uprising (motto: “The students are grumpy!”); and a shaggy-dog tale of a food writer’s dinner with a police commissioner that ends with a crime and a car chase. The cast includes Owen Wilson, Tilda Swinton, Benicio Del Toro, Léa Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet and Jeffrey Wright. The fun, for New various moods: preoccupied Bronte hero, cliffside; psychic communicator in smoldering yet boyish close-up, about to use “The Voice” on an adversary; and so on.

He’s not a big drag on the movie overall, but Chalamet’s work tends toward single notes of opaque introspection rather than chords of fuller emotion.

The year is 10191. Atreides (Chalamet) has been bred to become a savior, though he doesn’t realize it yet, known as the kwisatz haderach. On home planet Caladan, his folks Duke Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac) and Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) get their marching orders from Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV to take over the spice-mining operations on Arrakis, aka Dune, and indeed the entire planet with all its conquered citizens, known as Fremen.

Yorker fans, is the parlor game of connecting them to such real-life analogues as Joseph Mitchell, Rosamond Bernier, Mavis Gallant, Janet Flanner, James Baldwin, A.J. Liebling and others that Anderson identifies in the end credits.

With its squared-off framing, Tati-esque compositions and bespoke production design, “The French Dispatch” bears the Anderson signatures that have made his movies an artisanal cottage industry. He’s an unapologetic fetishist, filling his world with the colors, textures, objects and behaviors that bring him pleasure,

The fictional French town of Ennui-sur-Blasé is the setting of the film “The French Dispatch.” Searchlight Pictures

confident that enough viewers will agree with him to allow him to do it again next time.

“The French Dispatch” is undeniably delightful to look at — the physical choreography possesses the grace and wit of a densely layered tableau vivant — and, even within the crisp, regimented acting style Anderson favors, a few genuine performances manage to take hold. Wright is so convincing as the Baldwin-like writer Roebuck Wright that audiences might find themselves longing for a serious biopic of the writer for him to star in.

For the most part, though, “The French Dispatch” keeps

Timothee Chalamet as Paul Atreides in the desert of Arrakis.

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Baron Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgard, looking like a flying Little Face from “Dick Tracy”), former ruler of Arrakis: not happy. Always greedy. Terrible steward of Arrakin’s precious resource, which is the key (I still don’t get this part, in any version) to interplanetary travel

and superpowers too trippy for a Marvel movie.

Paul is a young knight, cast in the mold of King Arthur and his gang in days of old. The new “Dune” movie plays out like his quest (mostly on Arrakis) to become the much-prophesied “Muad’Dib,” who will lead the

things on an attractive but shallow surface, with Anderson tossing out inside references like so many candied chestnuts in self-conscious and digressive vignettes. As a valentine to old-school publishing, from the lovable rogues of its most storied past to the fonts and serifs of pre-digital typography, “The French Dispatch” embodies a wistful look back, but not a particularly penetrating one. (The film benefits from a delicately thoughtful musical score by Alexandre Desplat). More serious ideas, including moral double standards for creative genius, the commodification of art or the wounding heedlessness Fremen to freedom and himself to the arms of the young woman he’s dreamed about for years. The actor Zendaya plays Chani, not particularly prominent or verbal in this first installment. (If they get the greenlight for part two, she’ll talk more.)

To what degree does Villeneuve’s “Dune” resemble a golf tee for that hoped-for second half? A little. It’s not making it’s first-halfness a secret. “Part One” hits the screen, right after the title, early on. “This is the only the beginning,” we’re reminded two-and-a-half hours later. I don’t relay this information to make “Dune” seem like a chore, though to some I’m sure it will be.

To me, it’s a pretty enthralling testament to Villeneuve, to cinematographer Greig Fraser, to production designer Patrice Vermette and even to

of generational change, are glanced at but never plumbed.

Anderson seems far more interested in concocting his dollhouse world than inhabiting it with messy human feelings.

There are moments in “The French Dispatch” when it’s unclear if Anderson is paying tribute to the arch tone and middlebrow high-mindedness the New Yorker came to symbolize, or making a burlesque of it. In the end, his surpassing formal gifts keep substance and emotion at arm’s length.

“The French Dispatch” winds up resembling the movie version of Eustace Tilley, the tophatted dandy who appeared on The New Yorker’s first cover, haughtily examining a butterfly through his monocle.

There’s attentive scrutiny here, and a surfeit of playful style, but precious little genuine curiosity or interest.

‘DUNE’ 3 stars out of 4 INDUSTRY RATING: PG-13, for sequences of strong violence, some disturbing images and suggestive material RUNNING TIME: 2 hours, 35 minutes WHERE TO WATCH: In theaters and streaming on HBO Max.

composer Hans Zimmer, working without his usual bombast.

Steadily, “Dune” accumulates its gallery of amazements, with some genuine suspense in key sequences, such as the rescue of the Fremen miners. Not even the conspicuous (and, I think, unfortunate) shortage of Middle Eastern actors in the Fremen ranks can thwart the achievement. Nor can Chamalet’s studious, somewhat becalmed central performance.

‘Dune’ has long divided the science fiction world

By MICHAEL DIRDA Washington Post

In the spring of 1984, the American Booksellers Association held its annual convention here in Washington.

One evening, Book World — The Washington Post’s then stand-alone literary supplement — hosted a cocktail party on the roof of the paper’s now demolished headquarters at 15th and L streets NW. As I wandered around, doing my feeble best to be sociable, I noticed one gentleman standing alone, looking a bit overwhelmed but also vaguely familiar. It was Frank Herbert, whom I didn’t at first recognize because he had recently shaved off his iconic beard.

At that point I simply abandoned my attempts at gladhanding. Over the next hour Herbert and I sat in the fading sunshine and talked and talked, though only a little about “Dune” because our conversation kept drifting back to Jack Vance, Herbert’s good friend and probably the most imaginative world-builder in postwar science fiction. That conversation led me to suspect that “Dune” was, in part, Herbert’s attempt to rival Vance by envisioning every aspect of an alien civilization, including its people’s clothing, cultural traditions and religious rituals.

For those who don’t know anything about “Dune,” whether the new film by Denis Villeneuve or the classic novel first published in 1965, let me just say that the title refers to the desert world Arrakis, which produces “spice,” a psychotropic drug essential to space travel and a source of

almost unimaginable wealth for its supplier. The book’s plot — to which the new film sticks closely — features a galactic empire riven by intrigue, a shadowy sisterhood called the Bene Gesserit, gigantic sandworms that surface from underground like Moby-Dick rising from the deep, subtle political maneuverings and shocking betrayals, a native population called the Fremen who await a promised messiah, and, not least, the young Paul Atreides, who is troubled by strange dreams and, perhaps, an even stranger destiny. Overall, the “good” characters are preternaturally gifted, some with witchy mental powers, others with samurai-like fighting skills, while the “bad” are obscene monsters of sadism, greed and ambition.

As a hotshot young editor back in 1984, I didn’t allow many weeks to go by before phoning my new buddy to see if he would review a book.

Given that David Lynch’s then much-anticipated film of “Dune” hadn’t yet been

released but was already in the news, I asked Herbert to write about a splashy, comparably promoted fantasy novel, Stephen King and Peter Straub’s “The Talisman.” In the end, he didn’t much like it, not that this mattered. Just getting Herbert to review it was a minor coup and we featured his piece on the front of Book World.

In December 1984, I attended the premiere of Lynch’s “Dune” at the Kennedy Center. The gala crowd beforehand struck me as both glamorous and improbable, with Washington A-listers mixing with uncomfortably dressedup members of our region’s science fiction community.

After the screening, however, everyone exiting from the theater looked embarrassed.

There were some polite if strained attempts at praise, but most people felt the film was confusing, overlong, too kinky and generally a mess.

The review by The Post’s fresh young movie critic, Paul Attanasio — now a prominent Hollywood screenwriter and producer — was headlined “Dune — Lost in the Dust.”

Happily, Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part One,” earned quite a different reaction — an ovation from many in the audience — when I previewed it before the film’s official release Thursday in theaters and on HBO Max. Frank Herbert originally conceived his magnum opus as a single mega-novel, ultimately broken up into three parts, “Dune,” “Dune Messiah” and “Children of Dune.”

As I read Villeneuve’s opening title sequence, titled “It

Begins,” I couldn’t help but wonder if the next film, presumably covering the rest of the original book, would stop there or launch a franchise that would go on to the cycle’s dark, increasingly complex later installments. Might it even include the many subsequent “Dune” novels written

by Herbert’s son Brian and Kevin J. Anderson (the latter an adviser on the new film)?

Unlike “Star Wars,” though, Villeneuve’s “Dune” isn’t a sparky, upbeat space opera.

It’s more like a Wagnerian music-drama, a somber story built around intimations of doom and orchestrated with a soundtrack of pounding drums and high-pitched wailings and ululations. It is, however, packed with eyepopping visual spectacle, notably speedy little aircraft that resemble mechanical dragonflies and enormous space cruisers as sleek as any on the cover of an old issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories. Like Herbert’s book, the film is also deliberately majestic in its pacing and virtually without humor. Life is real, life is earnest and nobody has much fun. Instead, characters nobly pontificate or murmur gnomically about whether the young hero, Paul Atreides, is or isn’t the Kwisatz Haderach, the promised warrior prophet who will lead the tough and fiercely independent Fremen to victory over their brutal oppressors. Their cruelest enemy, the consummately evil Baron Harkonnen, symbolically dwells in darkness, surrounding himself with swirling smoke and completely hairless attendants. He is a

grotesque vision of rampant, unbridled capitalism.

As is widely known, science fiction novels only appear to be about the future or other worlds. In fact, they are nearly always oblique commentaries on the times in which they were written — or filmed.

Villeneuve’s “Dune,” even more than the original novel, addresses such contemporary hot-button issues as ecology, climate and conservation, colonialist exploitation of thirdworld countries, drug culture, the role of women in society and religious fanaticism. More surprisingly, it is also a paean to family life, tenderly portraying the love of Duke Leto Atreides for his son Paul, whom he no longer quite understands, and the close, sometimes tense relationship between that sensitive young man and his remarkable mother, the Lady Jessica, a concubine specially trained by the Bene-Gesserit. In fact, Jessica is the most vivid, the most fascinating character on screen. In a world of sudden violence, she is always cool, self-controlled and unafraid, qualities she has passed on to Paul.

What may be the most controversial part of the film lies in its politically inflected contemporaneity, starting with the flowing Middle Eastern robes and the face coverings of the Fremen. The young woman Paul glimpses in his dreams laments the exploitation of her beautiful land and the wars that have ravaged it; she also resembles that Afghan girl with piercing green eyes on the famous National Geographic cover. When the Fremen speak of “the Mahdi,” any student of history will

recall that this was the nom de guerre of the charismatic zealot who fomented a 19thcentury Arab revolt against the British, culminating in the massacre at Khartoum.

For “spice” one need only read the word “oil.” While the film’s promotion claims it’s about conquering one’s fears, it also looks ahead to a conflict that can be seen as either a freedom fighter’s crusade or a fanatical jihad. At its core, “Dune” is, as Simone Weil said of “The Iliad,” a meditation on force, in all its aspects.

As a novel, “Dune” has never been unconditionally admired. I know sophisticated readers, devoted science fiction fans, who can’t stand it, finding Herbert’s prose inept, the action ponderous and the whole book clumsy and tedious. But SF readers are contentious, often cruelly so, and nearly all of the field’s most beloved novels and series also have cogent and vocal detractors: Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation” trilogy is dismissed as period pulp; Robert A. Heinlein’s “Starship Troopers” and “Stranger in a Strange Land” preach either militaristic jingoism or pretentious ‘60s claptrap; Samuel R. Delany’s “Dhalgren” is well nigh unreadable and Gene Wolfe’s “The Book of the New Sun” too subtle, too theological, too clever by half. Perhaps so.

Yet imaginative works that people still argue about — and “Dune” certainly belongs in this category — demonstrate their continuing vitality and relevance. They remain — to borrow a vogue phrase — part of the conversation.

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Squash your hunger This white chili with butternut squash brings comfort and balance

Pastry chef does it her way in new cook(ie) book

By JOE YONAN Washington Post

L

et’s talk about comfort food. My household has been in dire need of comfort lately, and my husband and I have been gravitating toward stereotypical American comfort food, meaning carbs and sweets and — jackpot! — carby sweets.

This is by no means a rant against carbs; I couldn’t live without them. But the problem with some “comfort” food is that I don’t always feel so comfortable after eating it — at least not when I go overboard, which of course I’m more likely to do when I’m emotionally needy. It’s a vicious circle.

So lately I’ve been looking to bring some balance back to my eating, and I turned to “Power Plates,” a 2018 cookbook by Gena Hamshaw with a plant-based protein, fat and carbs in every recipe. Since I’ve been slowly getting my cooking mojo back after losing it in the wake of our foster son’s departure, it also has helped that Hamshaw’s recipes are quick and simple.

The one I keep coming back to is this white chili, which combines beans with butternut squash, quinoa and two types of canned chiles — mild green ones and spicier chipotles. I love how the chiles contrast, how easily the dish comes together. The most time-consuming part of the prep is dealing with the butternut squash, but a sharp knife and a peeler are all you need.

Once the chili’s on the table, I think you’ll agree: Comfort never tasted so good, nor felt so nourishing.

Dessert pro at elite restaurant says, ‘I want people to enjoy baking’

By DANIEL NEMAN St. Louis Post-Dispatch

See SQUASH C6 Butternut squash is a staple of winter cooking. Pexels

White Chili With Butternut Squash. Scott Suchman/Washington Post

To the baking world, it’s an unthinkable suggestion bordering on blasphemy: When making certain desserts, it’s just fine to use imitation vanilla extract.

So says Helen S. Fletcher, the author of “Craving Cookies: The Quintessential American Cookie Book.” It may be the best cookie cookbook you will ever see.

Fletcher is the pastry chef at Tony’s, one of the highest-rated fine-dining establishments in St. Louis. For more than 20 years, she owned Truffes in University City, a bakery that catered to restaurants, hotels and caterers, and also did a lot of work with weddings. So she knows about baking, even when it comes to imitation vanilla.

“At work, at Tony’s... I use vanilla that costs $400 a gallon,” she said, demonstrating in one short sentence the difference between professional bakers and hobbyists.

Even small bottles of what she considers the best tasting, most aromatic vanilla, Tahitian vanilla, can cost $35. And she doesn’t want to price anyone out of the joy of baking.

“My whole mantra is: I want people to bake. I want people to enjoy baking. I want people who have never baked to bake,” she said.

And that means using imitation vanilla when the vanilla flavor doesn’t stand on its own, such as in recipes that also use a lot of spice or chocolate. She usually uses professional imitation vanilla herself, but she also recommends McCormick’s.

Fletcher, 81, has had no formal training as a baker. So she has developed her own way of See BOOK C6

Overnight oats with pumpkin, pecans put a fall spin on breakfast

By ELLIE KRIEGER Washington Post

A feeling of contentment still washes over me when I think back on how my daughter would make a beeline to the refrigerator when she got home from school to grab herself a jar of overnight oats before digging in to her homework. Watching her enjoy the food I prepared, and knowing the nourishment it provided for her, was, and continues to be, deeply gratifying for me.

The individual, puddinglike jars were so convenient to have around as a make-ahead snack or breakfast, I’d make a batch practically weekly, changing up the variations with the seasons. I don’t make overnight oats quite as often these days, with my daughter now away at college, but they are still in regular rotation in my home.

In the spring and summer I add peaches, cherries or fresh berries to the base of milk, yogurt, oats and seasonings, and in the winter I stir in grated

apple, chunks of pear and dried cranberries.

Throughout the fall I can’t resist the allure of pureed pumpkin mixed with a warm, fragrant blend of pumpkinspice — ground cinnamon, cloves and ginger.

1 cup old-fashioned rolled oats

PUMPKIN PECAN OVERNIGHT OATS IN JARS Total time: 10 minutes, plus at least 8 hours chilling time 4 servings; 1 jar about 1¼ cups In these parfait-like jars, oats are soaked overnight to soften in a maple syrupsweetened mix of milk, yogurt and pumpkin puree spiked with warm and fragrant pumpkin spice. Studded with toasted pecans, they are an autumnal puddinglike treat that you make-ahead, for a nutritious breakfast or afternoon snack at the ready.

Make Ahead: The oats need to be prepared at least 8 hours in advance of serving.

Storage Notes: Can be refrigerated for up to 4 days.

Pumpkin pecan overnight oats in jars. Tom McCorkle/Washington Post

1 cup pecan pieces 1 cup reduced-fat or whole milk 1 cup plain whole milk or lowfat yogurt, plus more for garnish

3/4 cup pumpkin puree 3 tablespoons maple syrup, plus more to taste 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon, plus more for serving 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves 1/8 teaspoon ground ginger

In a small dry skillet over medium-high heat, toast the pecans, stirring frequently, until fragrant, 3 to 5 minutes.

Transfer to a cutting board to cool, then coarsely chop. Set aside half of the pecans and transfer the remaining to an airtight container and refrigerate.

In a medium bowl, whisk together the milk, yogurt, pumpkin puree, maple syrup, vanilla, cinnamon, cloves and ginger until combined. Stir in the reserved pecans and the oats. Taste, and add 1 more tablespoon of maple syrup, if desired. Let the mixture sit for 15 minutes, then stir well and divide the mixture evenly among four 12-ounce (1½-cup) jars. Cover the jars tightly and refrigerate for at least 8 hours and preferably overnight.

Right before serving, top each jar with a quarter of the refrigerated pecans, a dollop of yogurt and a sprinkle of cinnamon.

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Should 007 be played by a woman?

Seven books by women in the spy world show us how it’s done

how to verify sources, think critically, consider context and understand our own information biases — skills that feel more important now than ever.

By CHRISTINA HILLSBERG Washington Post

The latest James Bond film, “No Time to Die,” has — pardon the word play — stirred up a discussion about the role of women. Emmy Award winner Phoebe Waller-Bridge of “Fleabag” and “Killing Eve” fame was recruited to polish the dialogue and add her signature wit to the film.

And this time, the “Bond girl” has been replaced by a “Bond woman,” an elite 00-agent poised to take an even bigger job. Daniel Craig, playing Bond for the last time, suggested that the role has limits: “Why should a woman play James Bond when there should be a part just as good as James Bond, but for a woman?”

As a former CIA intelligence officer (and author, with my husband, Ryan Hillsberg, also former CIA, of “License to Parent: How My Career as a Spy Helped Me Raise Resourceful, Self-Sufficient Kids”), I know how much women can do in the field (and everywhere else) — and I think we are ready for a female James Bond, or perhaps even a new 00-agent blazing her own trail altogether. As Waller-Bridge said: “I think Bond is James Bond. We just need to cook up someone to rival him.” Seven recently published books by women who worked in intelligence show us

what it looks like when women take the lead in the world of espionage.

‘Red Widow,’ by Alma Katsu Not one, but two female CIA agents are at the center of Katsu’s fast-paced “Red Widow.” Lyndsey Duncan, formerly a top handler in the Moscow Field Station, is sent home to Washington on administrative leave and later begins tracing the steps of those closest to her in search of a possible mole. Her path becomes intertwined with that of Theresa Warner, the “Red Widow,” the wife of a former director killed in the field under shady circumstances. Katsu, author of “The Deep,” “The Hunger” and the Taker Trilogy, uses her 30-plus years of intelligence to create a suspenseful, entertaining spy tale laced with

authenticity.

‘You Can Run,’ by Karen Cleveland When CIA analyst Jill Bailey receives a call from someone claiming to have her son, her world is turned upside down. She forms an unlikely (and uneasy) alliance with an investigative journalist in an effort to find the truth. Cleveland relies on her years as a CIA counterterrorism analyst and her experience as a mother in this heart-rending thriller.

‘True or False: A CIA Analyst’s Guide to Spotting Fake News,’ by Cindy L. Otis Though billed for young adults, this is a book that every adult should read. Based on her decades of work as a CIA analyst, Otis offers a guide on

‘The Targeter: My Life in the CIA, Hunting Terrorists and Challenging the White House,’ by Nada Bakos with Davin Coburn In her gripping memoir, Bakos gives readers an inside look at life in the CIA as an intelligence analyst and later, a targeting officer focused on top targets inside al-Qaeda. The book is filled with many juicy nuggets, so many that Bakos filed a lawsuit against the CIA in 2018 to get her book released. Readers are rewarded by her win. “The Targeter” is an enthralling account that has drawn comparisons to “Zero Dark Thirty.”

‘In the Dark of War: A CIA Officer’s Inside Account of the U.S. Evacuation from Libya,’ by Sarah M. Carlson Carlson, who served as a counterterrorism analyst with the U.S. government for more than a decade, including work with the CIA, shares her inside account of Libya’s descent into violence following the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, and the evacuation of the U.S. Mission from Tripoli in 2014. Like Bakos, Carlson engaged in a legal battle with the CIA to find language to tell her story while also protecting national security. The result is a brave account of war from a woman’s point of view.

‘Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA,’ by Amaryllis Fox Fox tells the riveting story of her training and deployment as a CIA operations officer under unofficial cover, charged with infiltrating terrorist networks in the most remote areas of North Africa, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Fox shares the trajectory of her career: studying theology and law at the University of Oxford, recruitment by the CIA at 21, training at the CIA’s covert operational training facility and her cover job as a dealer of Indigenous art. Woven throughout, Fox shares intimate details of her personal life and, ultimately, how she decided to leave the agency.

‘The Unexpected Spy,’ by Tracy Walder with Jessica Anya Blau Walder was a sorority member at the University of Southern California when she decided, on a whim at a career fair, to apply to the CIA. Needless to say, it was a big life change.

In her enthralling memoir, Walder gives a candid account of her role in the search for weapons of mass destruction and high-ranking al-Qaeda members. Later, Walder joined the FBI, where she worked in counterintelligence and helped capture a notorious foreign spy.

Christina Hillsberg, a former CIA intelligence analyst, is a writer and mother of five.

Why libraries will continue to survive in a digital age

By ARTHUR DER WEDUWEN & ANDREW PETTEGREE

Despite all the threats faced by libraries, people have continued to collect books and documents to shape and preserve our collective body of knowledge — and they will continue to do so.

Washington Post

What is the role of a library in today’s digital age?

This is a question that communities across the country are asking, and it seems that the very concept of the library — a physical space for the storage and consultation of books — is under threat. But libraries have endured for centuries because each generation has reshaped the library in its own image, with new intellectual agendas and new buildings that reflect the priorities of the community and the day. As libraries today embrace redesigns, making room for computers, meeting spaces, culinary learning centers and coffee shops to serve their patrons, they are following in a long tradition of adaptation, from the first medieval libraries that chained their books when visitors surged, to 19th-century libraries that had to make new space for women and children.

Libraries, far from stable institutions, frequently underwent radical change. They began thousands of years ago as storehouses of information for the powerful — emperors, princes and administrators.

Rulers recognized that knowledge was power, and had little to gain by granting access to their collections to a broad public.

But then the growth of literature in the ancient Greece transformed personal archives into places of learning, and indeed of recreation. Yet the connection between libraries and power never disappeared. For much of human history, collecting a large number of books was a privilege of the elite, the wealthiest members of society or powerful institutions like monasteries.

Because libraries reflected the values of existing elites, swings in intellectual taste or political upheaval could put

With funding expiring at the end of the year, the Badenhausen Library in Brasher Falls will close its doors permanently at the end of the year. Christopher Lenney/Watertown Daily Times

them at risk. All the great libraries of the Roman Empire, many established to celebrate the achievements of emperors or victorious generals, disappeared when Rome fell. Most of the papyrus scrolls from these libraries were lost, but some were saved by Christian monks who copied them by hand onto parchment.

For much of the millennium between A.D. 400 and 1400, Christian monasteries were held in high regard as centers of prayer and learning, not least because of the important role played by monks in copying and preserving books.

This changed during the Renaissance in the 14th and 15th centuries — an intellectual movement that sought to transform society by returning to the classical values of the Roman Empire — as Italian book hunters terrorized monastic libraries by stealing their Roman and Greek manuscripts.

They despised the monks for making so little use of their favored classical writers, who the Renaissance book hunters wished to restore to former

glories at the Italian courts and universities. Many of the great monastic libraries, now mostly containing Christian books, became less popular since they didn’t reflect new Renaissance values or project modernity. As the modernizers of the Renaissance founded their own beautiful book collections, they left these neglected libraries, now picked over and increasingly irrelevant, in their wake.

Religious upheaval was also a disruptive force for libraries. Martin Luther’s Protestant Reformation resulted in the destruction and dispersal of hundreds of libraries throughout Northern Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries, as church and academic libraries were cleansed of Catholic works.

The library of Oxford University was entirely ransacked, leaving the university to sell off the furniture, because there were no more books left in the building.

Elsewhere in Protestant Europe, Catholic collections were seized and appropriated for what ultimately became the first generation of public libraries.

While the notion of saving Catholic books rather than burning or destroying them was a noble idea, in practice this resulted in a patchwork of city libraries which were rarely used, as they mostly contained aging books that few people had any interest in reading. In one Dutch town, the city library was so poorly frequented that one visitor had to have his clothes washed after visiting, because of the dust.

A similar tale unfolded in Austria, between 1782 and 1787, when 700 monasteries were dissolved as part of the Enlightenment agenda of Emperor Joseph II. Their rich book collections were made available to university and school libraries, but these institutions hardly had the staff to perform an adequate inspection. And so, imperial administrators auctioned off books deemed to be insignificant, including many items from the first age of printing that we would now consider to be priceless. What the modernizers considered to be useless prayer books were simply pulped. Tens of thousands of rare books were lost, and many

others were left to rot.

During the French Revolution, revolutionary soldiers ripped up thousands of books from libraries to make cartridges for their firearms. The revolutionary government instructed them to use books from libraries of aristocratic exiles, as well as those that belonged to churches and universities, which were privileged institutions. All books that spoke against the principles of the Revolution were of no use in the new age of liberty. Perhaps 12 million books were lost, until newly established French municipal libraries salvaged the remains of France’s rich literary heritage.

Such library purges continued during the great ideological conflicts of the 20th century.

The Nazis transformed the public library system in Germany, building almost 4,000 new libraries between 1934 and 1940. The regime closely monitored the content of these libraries, however, and largely supplied them with books that advanced the ideologies of the Nazi party. Socialist, liberal or what was deemed “asphalt” literature that was seen to attack Nazi principles was removed, or, more famously, publicly burned.

After World War II, the Allied Powers occupying Germany were faced with the challenge of de-Nazifying the country’s public libraries. Rather than

burning the pro-Nazi books, they mostly quietly removed and then pulped the offending volumes. In many cases, the process was supervised by the same librarians who had removed non-Nazi books in the 1930s.

Soviet occupiers pulped more than 27 million volumes of anti-communist literature in Czech libraries after World War II. Forty years later, the collapse of the Soviet Union led to similar scenes of book cleansing: In one town in the former East Germany, the contents of the public library were simply placed on the street for passersby to pick up. The entire library world of the Soviet era — of schools, universities, public library networks — was in one fell swoop rendered obsolete.

In short, libraries, as symbols of power, have always been under threat when that power was contested or vanquished. And yet, despite all the threats faced by libraries, people have continued to collect books and documents to shape and preserve our collective body of knowledge — and they will continue to do so. Today we can enumerate 2.6 million libraries around the world, including 400,000 public libraries. The library, as a concept, will continue to evolve, balancing the needs of communities with their roles as keepers of knowledge reflecting the society’s values. It is in that harmonious dialogue that the future of the library can be found.

Arthur der Weduwen is a historian and postdoctoral fellow at St Andrews, and has previously written on the history of newspapers, advertising and publishing. He is co-author of “The Library: A Fragile History” Andrew Pettegree is professor of modern history at St Andrews University and a leading expert on the history of book and media transformations.

Publisher’s Weekly best-sellers

HARDCOVER FICTION

5. Apples Never Fall. Liane Moriarty. Holt 6. Silverview. John le Carre. Viking 7. The Butler. Danielle Steel. Delacorte 8. The Last Thing He Told Me. Laura Dave. Simon & Schuster 9. The Book of Magic. Alice Hoffman. Simon & Schuster 10. Billy Summers. Stephen King. Scribner

1. State of Terror. Clinton/Penny. S&S and St. Martin’s 2. The Wish. Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central 3. The Lincoln Highway. Amor Towles. Viking 4. Cloud Cuckoo Land. Anthony Doerr. Scribner

1. The Storyteller. Dave Grohl. Dey Street 2. To Rescue the Republic. Bret Baier. Custom House 3. The Boys. Howard/Howard. Morrow

Tribune News Service

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Oct. 15, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan (C) 2021 NPD Group.

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

4. Peril. Woodward/Costa. Simon & Schuster 5. The Forever Dog. Habib/Becker. Harper Wave 6. Midnight in Washington. Adam Schiff. Random House 7. American Marxism. Mark R. Levin. Threshold 8. E.R. Nurses. Patterson/Eversmann. Little, Brown 9. Get Back. The Beatles. Callaway 10. Taste. Stanley Tucci. Gallery

MASS MARKET 1. When All Hell Broke Loose. Johnstone/ Johnstone. Pinnacle

2. Before She Disappeared. Lisa Gardner. Dutton 3. Missing and Endangered. J.A. Jance. Morrow 4. The 19th Christmas. Patterson/Paetro. Grand Central 5. The Perfect Christmas. Debbie Macomber. Mira 6. Santa’s Sweetheart. Janet Dailey. Zebra 7. Jingle All the Way. Debbie Macomber. Ballantine 8. A Forever Kind of Love. Nora Roberts. Silhouette 9. Hush-Hush. Stuart Woods. Putnam 10. Walk the Wire. David Baldacci. Grand Central

TRADE PAPERBACK 1. Some Things I Still Can’t Tell You. Misha

Collins. Andrews McMeel 2. 2 Sisters Detective Agency. Patterson/Fox. Grand Central 3. On Tyranny Graphic Edition. Snyder/Krug. Ten Speed 4. People We Meet on Vacation. Emily Henry.

Berkley 5. The Love Hypothesis. Ali Hazelwood. Berkley 6. Where the Crawdads Sing. Delia Owens. Putnam 7. Toilet-Bound Hanako-Kun, Vol. 10. Aidairo. Yen 8. A Gambling Man. David Baldacci. Grand Central 9. The Return. Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central 10. The Silent Patient. Alex Michaelides. Celadon

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Last week’s puzzle answers

Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born Sunday, you are a master of the art of self-expression, and when you have something to say, you can be counted on to say it in a manner that is both effective and memorable. You value creative talents over almost all other abilities, for you know them to be the key to so many of life’s difficulties; one cannot solve a problem without approaching it in a creative manner, and that is what you do again and again, day after day.

Whether you are in the public eye or safely tucked away in seclusion, you are going to be the subject of talk — as are so many Scorpio natives. This is of no real concern to you until you feel that your boundaries are being violated; surely you want to protect yourself and your home — and you will do so, no matter what it takes!

Also born on this date are: Joni Mitchell, singer; Joan Sutherland, operatic soprano; Al Hirt, musician; Billy Graham, evangelist; Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary; Marie Curie, scientist.

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, NOVEMBER 8 SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Repetition today affords you the chance to assess your performance at every step of the way, without having to prove anything to anyone.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You’re eager to remove yourself from a situation that you recognize is not good for you anymore — though it once was. Make this change ASAP! CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — While looking around for clues, be sure you don’t miss those that are right in front of you!

Sometimes the obvious is the most important.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You’ve been dealing with those who don’t really understand where you’re coming from, but that can all change today, giving you a new advantage.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Now is not the time to default to easygoing and softspoken; if you feel that your words will effect change, then it’s time to speak up!

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — A domestic change, though small, yields a rather large dividend today — though it all started some

time ago. Your family works as a team.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You may benefit today from developments stemming from a “hidden” financial situation.

It’s a good time to share your concerns with an ally.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You are more interested in fulfilling your own sense of purpose today than you are in satisfying someone else’s demands. Go your own way!

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You may be tempted to do things in a way that “sends a message” today, but why bother? Those who already support you are all you need.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You’ll be called upon to swing into action today, so you must be sure that your preparations have been thorough. A mistake will be costly.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You’re ready to commit to something that has tempted you for quite some time. Are you prepared to explain yourself if things go wrong?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You are likely to break out of your ennui today and get yourself and others fired up about something that is just around the corner.

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doing things, tips and tricks and hacks that work wonders but that other bakers don’t use.

“Sometimes, when you are trained, you get stuck on the way you are taught or the way the book taught you. Well, I wasn’t trained and I didn’t have the book,” she said.

Her new cookbook, which is self-published, has tricks for baking the way she bakes.

For instance, she recommends something she calls the double-pan method.

When she was baking croissants, she noticed that when the outsides were golden brown and perfect, the insides were still undercooked.

If she lengthened the cooking time, the interiors would be cooked but the bottoms would be burned.

So she put one baking sheet on top of another, and baked on that. The result was perfect croissants every time — and not just croissants but cookies and other pastries that are made with brown sugar, honey, molasses or chocolate, or that have a lot of butter or spice in them.

Cookies and pastries cooked on a double pan will take a little longer to bake; probably about 10% to 15% beyond the original time.

If you bake something that sticks to the sides of the pan and is hard to remove, she recommends a very simple solution: Turn the pan upside down over a board or platter and heat the side of the pan with a blow dryer. The brownies or caramels or lemon bars will drop out easily.

“At work, I use a propane (blow torch). I modified it to a blow dryer on high. It just really works for a lot of things. I use it for cheesecakes, anything that needs to be released with heat,” she said.

Lemon bars, which she writes “are as American as chocolate chip cookies, and loved just as much,” are particularly prone to sticking. As the bars bake, they pull away from the sides of the pan, and when the lemon topping is added it fills the gap and sticks to the pan.

She developed another technique to keep this from happening. She calls it spooning the crust. As soon as the crust is taken out of the oven, while it is still soft, she goes around the edge with a soup spoon and gently presses it back up against the sides of the pan.

The idea of using bread flour to make chewy cookies chewier isn’t hers alone, but she embraces it fully — while suggesting it is also best when doing so to refrigerate the dough overnight, which allows the flour to fully hydrate.

Nor can she claim credit for the idea of adding corn syrup to make caramel to keep the sugar from granulating (though she did come up with the idea of heating the cream to keep the caramel from temporarily solidifying).

And other bakers, too, use a food processor for making some doughs, though doing so seems counterintuitive.

Shortbread, for instance, is “the easiest thing to make in the food processor. You use cold butter and just cut it into

the flour until it’s like sand.

This way, it comes out of the food processor cold and ready to go,” she said.

“Craving Cookies” is Fletcher’s second cookbook. The first, “The New Pastry Cook,” came out in 1986.

CHOCOLATE-DIPPED SWEET AND SALTED BUTTER COOKIES Yield: About 35 servings 12 tablespoons (1½ sticks) unsalted butter, softened 1/2 cup (3 1/2 ounces) granulated sugar 1 large egg yolk 2 teaspoons almond extract 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract, preferably Tahitian 1 7/8 cups (9 1/4 ounces or 2 cups minus 2 tablespoons) allpurpose flour 6 ounces semisweet chocolate, coarsely chopped 1 1/2 tablespoons vegetable shortening 1/2 cup sanding sugar, see note Sea salt to taste Note: Sanding sugar is a coarse sugar that will not melt in the oven. It can be found at some grocery stores, big-box stores, kitchen supply stores and online.

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line several rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper. Set aside.

2. Beat the butter and sugar together until very light. Add the egg yolk and beat until completely combined. Add almond and vanilla extracts, and beat well. Add the flour all at once and mix until the dough comes together in a ball.

3. If using cookie cutters, divide the dough in half (290 grams or 10 ounces each).

If it is too soft to work with, refrigerate for about 30 minutes. Place between 2 sheets of waxed paper and roll with a rolling pin to about ¼-inch thickness, and cut out the cookies. Repeat with the second half of the dough. Gather the pieces that are left over and reroll as necessary.

4. If rolling and slicing, divide the dough in half as directed in step 3. Roll each half into a 10-inch log. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm. Slice about ¼-inch thick. (The logs may be frozen, thawed and sliced as needed.

Bake as directed).

5. Place cookies about 1½ inch apart on the prepared baking sheets. Bake for 7 minutes, then rotate the pan and bake for 6 to 7 more minutes if very small or 10 to 12 minutes if larger, until lightly browned.

Transfer to a wire rack to cool.

6. While cookies cool, prepare the quick-tempering chocolate. Mix chocolate and shortening together in a bowl.

Melt by either placing the bowl over a pot of simmering water and stirring until combined or by placing bowl in microwave and heating in 10-second bursts, stirring between each one, until combined.

7. In a separate bowl, mix sanding sugar with salt to taste. You want to be able to taste the salt, but the sugar should be the predominant flavor.

8. Holding a cookie upsidedown, dip the top half of the cookie into the chocolate.

Sprinkle with the sugar/salt mixture. Allow the chocolate to set firmly at room temperature.

Per serving: 60 calories; 3 g fat; 2 g saturated fat; 8 mg cholesterol; 1 g protein; 7 g carbohydrate; 4 g sugar; 1 g fiber; 3 mg sodium; 2 mg calcium Recipe from “Craving Cookies: The Quintessential American Cookie Book” by Helen S. Fletcher

Rethinking chocolate chip cookies About 1/2 cup coarsely chopped walnuts, toasted or not, or more chocolate chunks

Get out your muffin tins for these treats by Dorie Greenspan

In a large bowl, beat the butter, both sugars, and the Bloomberg salt together on medium Chocolate chip cookies speed until creamy, about 2 win every matchup they face. minutes. Beat in the vanilla.

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By KATE KRADER

Avoiding pain while working at a desk

By CYNTHIA WEISS Mayo Clinic News Network

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I have been working at home for the past year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

My work requires me to be on a computer much of the day, and over the past few months, I’ve noticed more frequent headaches, and pain in my lower back and sometimes my neck. Could my workspace be contributing to my pain? If so, how can I fix it?

ANSWER: The number of people working from home has increased significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic. With more people working from home came an increased number of people reporting neck pain and back pain.

Sitting and working at a desk — perhaps a makeshift one — is one of the most common causes of this type of pain. Taking time to review and redesign your workspace can alleviate discomfort, whether you work at home or in an office.

First take notice of your computer or workstation. Often I find that people try to accommodate to the technology rather than the other way around. For instance, many people strain to see a computer monitor that is too far away, too low, too high, too small or too dim. This compromises good posture.

The average human head weighs almost 12 pounds

Squash From C3

WHITE CHILI WITH BUTTERNUT SQUASH Total time: 55 minutes 6 servings This recipe adds smoky flavors to the typical combination of white beans and green chiles, plus squash for heft and quinoa for protein.

Storage Notes: The chili can be refrigerated for up to 1 week or frozen for up to 6 months.

1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive

— the equivalent of a bowling ball. When your neck is bent to 45 degrees, your head exerts nearly 50 pounds of force on your neck. In addition to straining joints and muscles in your neck and shoulders, the pressure affects your breathing and mood.

To alleviate this stress, redesign your workspace to encourage well-aligned posture.

You can improve the ergonomics — the efficiency and comfort level — of a typical workstation in many ways.

Start by answering these questions.

Q. Is your monitor positioned so you can see it well without straining?

Consider these tips: —Raise or lower the monitor or your chair so your eyes are level with the top of the screen. If you wear bifocals, you may need to lower the monitor another 1 to 2 inches.

—Move the monitor closer or farther away so you can easily read the screen.

—Increase the font size you use.

—If using a laptop, link to a larger monitor.

Q. Are your mouse and keyboard positioned so you don’t have to reach up to use them?

Lower your desk height or raise your chair so your forearms are parallel to the floor or pointed slightly downward and your wrists are not pointing either upward or downward. oil 1 large white or yellow onion (12 ounces), chopped 3 garlic cloves, minced or finely grated 3 cups cooked or canned nosalt-added navy, Great Northern or cannellini beans (from 2 15-ounce cans), drained and rinsed 1 small zucchini (8 ounces), trimmed and cut into 3/4-inch cubes 1 1/2 pounds butternut squash, peeled, deseeded and cut into 3/4-inch cubes 2 (4-ounce) cans mild green chiles with their liquid 2 tablespoons chopped

Q. Do you keep frequently used tools within close range to minimize reaching?

Consider these tips: —Keep your mouse nearby, and regularly change it from one side of your body to the other.

—Use a headset if you talk on the phone frequently.

—Find shortcut keys you can use while typing.

—Use a document holder so you don’t have to look down frequently.

Q. Does your chair allow you to maintain the normal curves in your spine, such as the curve in your low back?

Raise your chair so you’re not sitting straight up at a 90-degree angle, but rather with an angle of 115 to 120 degrees between the torso and thighs.

Q. When you’re seated, do your feet touch the ground?

Consider using a stool if you’ve elevated your chair and your feet no longer reach the ground. Also, maintain a couple of inches between the back of your knees and the chair.

Q. If your chair has armrests, do they allow your shoulders to relax?

Consider lowering or getting rid of the armrests so your neck and shoulders can relax downward.

— Check your posture Have someone take a picture of you at your workstation and check to see if you are in chipotles in adobo with their sauce 1 teaspoon smoked paprika 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1 teaspoon chili powder 3/4 teaspoon fine sea salt or table salt, plus more to taste 3 cups homemade or lowsodium vegetable broth 2/3 cup quinoa, rinsed 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice, plus more to taste In a large pot over medium heat, heat the oil until shimmering. Add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until it’s tender and translucent, 5 to 7 minutes. Add the garlic and cook, stirring, until

a well-aligned posture, which means: —Your eyes are looking straight.

—Your neck is not bent.

—Your forearms are parallel to the floor.

—Your low back is in its natural curve.

This can provide another perspective to help you make adjustments.

Talk to your employer, as well, to see if additional items can be provided to assist you, if necessary, such as a standing workstation or a sit-stand desk. The latter setup allows you to raise and lower the height of your computer and peripherals.

— Consider these best practices Also consider these best practices to support good health and posture: —Set a timer and get up every 30 minutes. Take a walking meeting, stand or exercise during a conference call, or hand-deliver a message when you would normally email it.

—Follow the 20-20-20 rule.

Every 20 minutes, give your eyes a 20-second break by focusing on something at least 20 feet away.

Being mindful of healthy work habits can go a long way to reducing neck and back pain, as well as creating a more positive work experience.

— Jill Henderzahs-Mason, P.T, D.P.T, Mayo Clinic Healthy Living Program, Rochester, Minn. very fragrant, about 1 minute.

Stir in the beans, zucchini, squash, green chiles, chipotles in adobo, smoked paprika, cumin, chili powder and salt, followed by the broth and quinoa. Increase the heat to high, bring to a boil, then lower the heat until the mixture is simmering, cover, and cook until the squash is fork-tender and the quinoa is fully cooked, about 20 minutes.

Uncover and cook, stirring occasionally, until the chili is thickened, about 5 minutes.

Stir in the lime juice, taste, and season with more salt and/ or lime juice, if needed. Serve hot.