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KINDERHOOK — A 4-yearold Valatie boy was killed in a head-on collision on State Route 203 on Wednesday, state police said at a news conference Thursday. The accident occurred at 2:25 p.m. near the intersection of Merwin Road, according to state police. According to a preliminary investigation, a vehicle traveling south crossed the center line for unknown reasons and collided with a car driven by 27-year-old Laura Dalaudiere, of Valatie. Three children were passengers in the back seat, state police spokesman Trooper Aaron Hicks said. Dalaudiere’s 4-year-old
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The scene of Wednesday’s fatal crash on Route 203 in Kinderhook.
son, Rayan, who was riding in a booster seat, died at the scene, Hicks said Thursday.
Both vehicles collided in the center of the road, state police Senior Investigator Eric Barnes
said. The driver of the other vehicle was David L. Scott, 56, of Ghent.
There were no passengers in Scott’s mid-sized SUV, state police said. Dalaudiere was driving a small sedan, Barnes said. “The cause and the circumstances around the accident are still under investigation,” Barnes said at a press conference Thursday. “All aspects of the collision will be investigated. As of right now there are no criminal charges pending.” Five people, including the driver of the other vehicle, are hospitalized with injuries, according to state police. Dalaudiere and two girls, ages 5 and 11, were transported to Albany Medical Center. Dalaudiere and the 5-yearold were listed in critical, but See CRASH A2
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HUDSON — International counterterrorism intelligence expert, MSNBC correspondent and author Malcolm Nance is developing a project in Stockport where veterans will be trained on the basic aspects of agriculture so they can start their own farms. The nonprofit, called Warriors Haven Farmstead, is gathering support and will provide military-style holistic training for veterans at the Winscott Farm at 6735 State Route 9 in Stockport. Nance, who lives in Stockport, answered questions about the project in anticipation of its first open-house event Saturday from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. “The farm is owned by my friend, Joe Kilcer, and he wants to do something with the farm,” Nance said Thursday. Nance, who served in the U.S. Navy as a specialist in cryptology, said he pitched the idea to his friend because of a lack of services he perceives for the younger generation of veterans. These younger vets, he said, are different from those of his father’s generation, who was also a Navy veteran and served in World War II. “The problem is, a lot of resources for veterans are still oriented toward the older generations of veterans,” Nance said. “There are not a lot of resources for the newer generation of veterans. The new generation does not want to sit in the local VFW and drink. They did not have factory jobs waiting for them when they came home. They don’t want to do work related to their military service. They do not have family farms to come home to.” Nance said the generation of “hipster” veterans want to do exciting things that lack stress, and learn new asymmetric skills from what they did in the military. “If a veteran was a truck mechanic in Afghanistan, they would be given training to start their own auto shop, but new veterans do not want that,” Nance said. The property is 180 acres of linear farming, which Nance plans to divide into 4- to
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International counterterrorism intelligence expert and MSNBC correspondent Malcolm Nance, who recently released the book “The Plot to Hack America: How Putin’s Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election.”
6-multi-acre sectors where veterans could learn specific skills in a particular area of running a farm. The sectionality of the training is part of recreating a military structure with which veterans are familiar, Nance said. As part of the structural recreation, Nance plans on cutting 3-and-a-half-miles of trail where veterans could run in the morning as part of their routine. “The first thing you do in the morning when you are in physical training is run 5 miles,” Nance said. “I was stunned how beautiful it was out there and I wanted to give the veterans a safe place to run.” Twenty veterans will be on site at one time to start, with half visiting and half who reside on the property at the planned 10-room living facility to be named Liberty Hall. “Depending on the support we get, we could expand,” Nance said. “The farm has a lot of potential. We’re starting small until we get the program off the ground.” The program’s start date depends on how much
support the project gets, Nance said, adding at this stage, prospects are looking positive with nonfinancial support from many powerful allies including Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America — a nonprofit 501c3 veterans organization — and actor Ron Perlman. “We don’t want a dollar until people know the facility is there and our plans for it,” Nance said. “That is what the open house on Saturday is for.” Nance said the facility will also serve as a safe haven for the increasing population of troubled veterans. “We have a lot of troubled vets who face drug addiction and post traumatic stress disorder who need a facility that puts them in an environment they understand — structured like the military,” Nance said. “There is no center in Columbia County to handle all of that.” Nance also talked about his new book, “The Plot to Hack America: How Putin’s Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election.” “Despite indisputable
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evidence and consensus among all intelligence agencies, this administration continues to deny that Russia influenced the 2016 election, because to accept that fact questions his [President Donald Trump’s] legitimacy,” Nance said. “Things have gotten so partisan, one party refuses to accept it in the face of indisputable evidence. And the Russians knew that is what would happen.” Nance said if this happened during the Cold War era, the country would be holding treason trials, but added no treason is known to have taken place. Nance’s book tries to sell the argument that heavy hitters who worked on Trump’s campaign, as well as Trump himself, were turned into unwitting assets to Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin using old KGB methods. Several people close to Trump were indicted and convicted recently, including former campaign manager Paul Manafort and former See MSNBC A2
HUDSON — The sentencing of a Hudson man convicted of shooting a woman in October was delayed Thursday. Jermaine M. Jones, 26, was arrested and charged by state police Oct. 14, 2016, with shooting a Ghent woman. Jones was convicted of second-degree assault Oct. 2. He was originally charged with first-degree criminal use of a firearm, a class B felony; firstdegree assault, a class B felony; and second-degree criminal possession of a firearm, a class C felony. The top charges are both class B violent felonies. Each carries a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison, according to state sentencing guidelines. Columbia County Court Judge Jonathan Nichols delayed Jones’ sentencing Thursday after a bench conference between First Assistant District Attorney Jim Carlucci and defense attorney Frederick Rench. Nichols did not give a reason for the delay. Jones’ sentencing was rescheduled for Feb. 1. Jones has been held in the Columbia County Jail without bail since his October 2016 arrest. Nichols continued Jones’s bail status. Police responded to a call Oct. 13, 2016, at about 10 p.m. that a Ghent woman was being treated at Columbia Memorial Hospital for a reported gunshot wound to the abdomen. The woman was taken to Albany Medical Center due to the severity of her injuries. The injuries were not life-threatening, police said at the time. Jones was arrested following a joint investigation by state police, Hudson police and the Columbia County District Attorney’s Office, state police said in October. “The collaborative efforts See SENTENCE A2
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