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Volume 230, No.112 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2022
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The New York State Capitol building is pictured on March 2, 2021 in Albany, New York. New York lawmakers passed measures this week (June 4, 2022) to strengthen the state’s already muscular gun laws, responding to last month’s heartbreaking mass shootings and long-running federal paralysis on firearms.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul holds up signed legislation as she is surrounded by lawmakers during a bill signing ceremony at the Northeast Bronx YMCA on June 6, 2022, in New York City.
By Alex [email protected]
ALBANY — New York’s re-cently passed slate of firearm regulations change definitions, license requirements and safety standards for the state’s gun owners and gun dealers.
The package of 10 bills aims to make it more difficult for young people to obtain semiautomatic weapons, removes body armor from the consumer market in New York and enhances Ex-treme Risk Protection Orders, otherwise known as red-flag laws.
Shepherded through the state Assembly and Senate by Democrats, the laws reflect some of the first legislative re-sponses to the recent rash of deadly shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas.
One of the most notable changes now signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul is the raised age to purchase semiautomatic rifles through the requirement that anyone purchasing or tak-ing possession of a semiauto-matic rifle obtain a license to do so. People who currently own semiautomatic rifles are not required to obtain a license, but whoever they sell or gift the weapon to will need to have one.
Changes ahead for gun owners
See CHANGES A12
By Ted RemsnyderColumbia-Greene Media
CAIRO — With paving work completed at Angelo Canna Town Park, the Town of Cairo is looking ahead to two more proj-ects to expand the town’s recre-ational offerings.
The town park paving, which was financed with $332,381 in Greene County funding and up to $100,000 in town expen-ditures, was completed in time for the town’s Memorial Day parade May 30.
“The paving is 100% done,” Cairo Town Supervisor Jason Watts said. “We’re just backing it up with topsoil right now.”
Watts said the newly refur-bished park held up well during
the town’s Memorial Day cel-ebration.
“There was plenty of space for parking,” he said. “There are a few handicapped spots down there and there never was (be-fore). It’s looking really good. It’s come a long ways. We built a pickleball court and did the ten-nis court over.”
Watts said he has received universally positive feedback re-garding the repaved park, which now contains over 100 marked parking spaces.
“It’s super important,” Watts said of the upgrades. “Every-body is walking up telling me how nice it is and how great it
Canna Town Park gets smooth summer opening
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With paving work completed in Angelo Canna Town Park in Cairo, the town is looking to secure funding for additional upgrades to the park. See OPENING A12
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A close-up photo of a hemp plant.
By Maura Rosner
Columbia-Greene Media
COXSACKIE - A proposed law that would regulate the sale of cannabis in the town of Coxsackie board will be aired at a public hearing scheduled for July 12, town officials said Tuesday.
Town officials plan to “have dia-logue” with the public about a zoning amendment that would regulate the sale of cannabis, Town Councilman Michael R. Veeder said.
Cities, towns and villages were al-lowed to submit opt-out forms to prevent adult-use cannabis retail dispensaries or on-site consumption stores, otherwise known as cannabis
lounges, from licensing or opening within their jurisdictions.
Opt-out forms had to be submitted by Dec. 31, 2021. Municipalities can-not opt out of adult-use legalization. Adult-use cannabis possession and use by adults 21 years of age or older is legal in New York State. It is also in accordance with the Marijuana Regu-lation & Taxation Act.
“The sale of cannabis needs to be regulated to certain areas of our com-munity, specifically commercial and industrial areas,” Veeder said Tues-day.
The public hearing will address the Zoning Amendment that the Town of
Coxsackie has incorporated by adding new definitions.
Definitions added to the proposed zoning amendment include Canna-bis Cultivation, Cannabis Distributor, Cannabis control board, Cannabis Laboratory testing facility, Cannabis License, Cannabis Licensee, Canna-bis Microbusiness, Cannabis Nurs-ery, Cannabis On-site consumption, Cannabis Processor, Cannabis Retail sale, Cannabis Retailer, Cannabis Warehouse, Cannabis Wholesale and Hemp.
Also included: A Site Plan Review,
Town proposes law on cannabis sales
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Ana Vanessa HerreroThe Washington Post
CARACAS, Venezuela - The 6-year-old walked to his church with exciting news to share. He had given the matter some thought, he told the Rev. Luis Alberto Mosquera, and he had decided he wanted to be an ac-tive Catholic.
“If you want to be an altar boy, you must pass a test,” the priest responded, according to the boy. Years later, the child’s testimony about that afternoon in the parish house would prove crucial: A court concluded that Mosquera had sexually abused him.
Mosquera was convicted in 2006 of sexual abuse against a child in and sentenced to more than seven years in prison. But he didn’t complete the sen-tence. His lawyers feared for his safety in prison and sought probation. In 2008, he was re-leased and returned to the church in Lara state, where he is still a priest. A photo posted on his Facebook page in 2016 and reposted in 2017 shows him sur-rounded by children.
The 63-year-old cleric’s case is among 10 involving allega-tions of child sexual abuse scru-tinized by The Washington Post over the past two years. The Post interviewed Catholic lead-ers, police, court officials and victims and reviewed police and court documents. In half of the cases, dating from 2001 to 2022, The Post found priests convicted of charges who were released early from their sen-tences or served no prison time at all. In at least three cases, the priests were allowed to return to ministry.
Critics see a pattern that they say suggests collusion between a corrupt judicial system and the Church to protect perpe-trators rather than victims. The common element in all 10 cases: The children involved came from poor and vulnerable back-grounds.
Accusations of abuse by priests have roiled the Church across Latin America in recent years. Reported assaults in Mex-ico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru have yielded convic-tions and resignations at the highest levels of the institution.
But Venezuela has managed to escape the wave. Analysts say a focus on political turmoil in the failing socialist country is one reason. The broken judicial system is another. The Church’s influence and comparative sta-bility is a third.
“So many things have been put off because of the social and political turmoil,” said Tulane University sociologist David Smilde, whose extensive research on the country has fo-cused in part on religion. “One of the institutions that Venezue-lans most respect is the Catholic Church. It limits how much you can act.”
Hugo Chávez, the founder of Venezuela’s socialist state, pub-licly criticized the Church. But under his successor, President Nicolás Maduro, who has been much less outspoken on priests’ transgressions, the Church has become an intermediary be-tween the government and the opposition.
“Our relationship with the Church has been of mediation and political support,” said Ju-lio Borges, an opposition politi-cian.
For clergy who have abused minors, the Church’s status appears to have provided pro-tection. A priest in Zulia, for in-stance, served no prison time despite being convicted of ag-gravated sexual abuse against a 12-year-old. A priest in Falcón
state pleaded guilty to com-mitting a carnal act against a 14-year-old but was granted house arrest with the condition that he stay away from the vic-tim. He returned to the Church, where he continues his ministry today.
For victims in these cases, life remains a struggle. They typi-cally have little support as they try to move on.
Mosquera works in the small town of Humocaro Alto, around 300 miles west of Caracas. He has been assigned to at least two different parishes since 1996, when a 12-year-old boy accused him of trying to rape him at gun-point, police records show. He eventually was acquitted of at-tempted rape.
In January, Mosquera con-firmed to The Post that he was still an active priest. He declined to answer further questions.
His ongoing role didn’t sur-prise the lawyer who represent-ed the 6-year-old and helped to push for Mosquera’s convic-tion.
“The Church really protected the priest. They gave him all the support,” attorney Jorge Men-doza said. As the boy’s lawyer, Mendoza said he was pressured to back off: “I was told by the archbishop of Barquisimeto I was going to be excommuni-cated if I continued defending the child.”
The archbishop died last year. The Rev. Oswaldo Araque, general vicar of Barquisimeto, told The Post that the arch-diocese is “attentive” in receiv-ing and acting on accusations against priests. When asked about the Church’s culpabil-ity in returning a convicted pe-dophile to ministry, he said it would investigate if The Post provided details.
“The state is responsible too!” he said. “They let him go.”
Other cases reviewed by The Post also ended with minimal time served behind bars - if that. In one, a priest in Mérida state exchanged texts with a 13-year-old girl, took her to a hotel room and kissed her, a court found. The girl testified that he tried to lift her shirt. His lawyers argued that she wanted to go with him and no sexual act was consum-mated. He was found not guilty in 2006 of an aggravated lascivi-ous act.
With little trust that Ven-ezuelan law enforcement or the courts will respond quickly and effectively to abuse allegations, some victims have gained at-tention by airing allegations on social media.
In 2018, a plea for help on Twitter helped expose a case in Anzoátegui state. “Pedophile priest,” it warned, then named the parish and pleaded: “Help us Holiness.” The Rev. Enrique Castro Azócar was arrested the following year and charged with the sexual abuse of two minors.
The search for justice was
exhausting for the victims’ fa-ther. “Our lives were changed forever because of this,” Robing Damián Salazar, a carpenter, told The Post. “I’ve been ha-rassed and threatened, fighting for my children.”
Castro pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual abuse of a child and was sentenced to five years. But instead of going to prison, he was granted a type of proba-tion known in Venezuela as al-ternative measure of liberty. He was let go on the condition that he stay away from the victims, be treated by a psychologist and appear in court every 30 days.
Advocates for victims con-tend the sentence violated a 2017 ruling by the Supreme Court, the country’s highest tribunal, that says individuals convicted of such crimes are not eligible for alternatives to incar-ceration. “Things like this reflect the state of defenselessness and impunity that prevails in the country,” said attorney Carlos Trapani, head of the children’s rights organization Cecodap.
A police record obtained by The Post shows the priest had been accused of a similar crime in the Diocese of Barce-lona. At least two families filed complaints with prosecutors in 2014, police and prosecutors’ records show. None resulted in charges. The alleged victims were as young as 10.
According to police docu-ments, Bishop Jorge Aníbal Quintero said Castro would be removed as a priest. In fact, he was simply moved to another parish. Neither Quintero nor the Diocese of El Tigre responded to requests for comment. Castro could not be reached for com-ment.
The Rev. Carlos Viña, vicar of Barcelona in Anzoátegui state, has been in charge of investi-gating abuse allegations across Venezuela for 10 years. He said he has found evidence to prove eight cases, though none has been made public by the Church.
“A priest who commits a crime represents a risk to chil-dren and teenagers, and it can-not be tolerated,” Viña told The Post in January.
A judge from the Supreme Court, who spoke on the condi-tion of anonymity for fear of re-prisals, reviewed six cases iden-tified by The Post.
In one, the Rev. Rafael Márquez in Zulia, founder of a network of homes to shelter and educate children living on the
streets, was charged with aggra-vated violent lewd acts against 12 children under 16 “in the presence of other children and adolescents,” the prosecutor said in court documents.
Márquez’s sentence was not made public. The last available court document is dated 2011.
Márquez worked as a priest until his death in 2018, accord-ing to the Rev. José Palmar, who knew him personally. “He was given alternative sanctions,” Palmar said. “In that case, the Church didn’t do what it should have done. There was no canon trial. The state and the Church were complicit.”
The priest’s lawyer, Álvaro Castillo Zeppenfeldt, did not respond to a request for com-ment.
All the cases, the Supreme Court judge said, reveal “evident irregularities,” including grant-ing alternatives to jail to convict-ed abusers who returned to the ministry without supervision. “In all of them I find crimes that should have ended in greater punishment, and they didn’t. There is a problem.”
Neither the Vatican nor the Venezuelan bishops’ confer-ence responded to requests for comment.
The Post interviewed dozens of people who said they were abused or harassed by clergy but were unable to get justice.
“There is a macabre system” between the Church and the state, said a nun who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. “Families need help, food, all things that the Church does in poor communi-ties, and perpetrators use this to get to the victims and keep them quiet.”
José Leonardo Araujo, a 33-year-old lawyer in Caracas, has spent his adult life in and out of therapy to deal with the sui-cidal thoughts that torment him at least monthly.
Araujo says he was abused at 13 by a Mexican priest working for the San Pablo congregation in Venezuela. He reported the allegations to local prosecutors in Mérida state in 2019, but the case died in the judicial system. He says he then turned to the Church but was told there was no evidence. Cardinal Baltazar Porras, who received the com-plaint, did not respond to a re-quest for comment.
The case was soon forgotten in Venezuela, but it drew atten-tion in Mexico, where the Rev. Juan Huerta Ibarra was inves-tigated by the Church, found guilty and expelled from the priesthood, according to a state-ment from the Society of Saint Paul. Huerta declined to com-ment.
In Venezuela, priests convicted of abuse have returned to ministry
PHOTO BY ANDREA HERNANDEZ BRICENO FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
In Caracas, José Leonardo Araujo says he has spent the past two decades trying to recover after being sexually abused by a priest as a boy.
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n Catskill Town Zoning Board of Appeals 6 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill 518-943-2141
n Catskill Village Board of Trustees 6:30 p.m. Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill 518-943-3830
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n Coxsackie Village Zoning Board of Appeals 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Man-sion St., Coxsackie 518-731-2718
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By Bill WilliamsColumbia-Greene Media
CATSKILL — Multiple agencies were on the scene of a fuel spill Monday night in Catskill.
The incident was first re-ported as a diesel fuel odor in the area of the Catskill Creek Condominiums at 1 Marina Drive in Catskill.
At about 7:02 p.m., Greene County 911 sent Catskill Fire Company and Catskill Ambulance to the scene.
When Catskill firefight-ers arrived, they suspected a possible fuel spill and re-quested the Greene County Hazardous Materials Team and state Department of Environmental Conserva-tion officers to respond for an investigation.
Boats from the Greene County Sheriff’s Office and Department of Environ-mental Conservation began checking the Catskill Creek for the source of the spill.
The Columbia County Hazardous Materials Team also arrived to assist.
The odor of fuel could be smelled along lower Main Street through the area.
The spill was traced to a boat leaking diesel fuel on the Catskill Creek, accord-ing to Catskill fire officials.
A vessel that was docked nearby was identified as the source. One of the boat’s stainless steel diesel tanks was leaking and the ves-sel’s bilge pump, which was set to run automatically, pumped out an unknown amount of diesel fuel into the creek.
The bilge pump was im-mediately turned off and absorbent pads were placed in the bottom of the engine compartment. The valve to the leaking tank was shut off and the leak was stopped, Department of En-vironmental Conservation spokeswoman Regina Willis said Tuesday. .
Crews began containing the spill with booms.
Environmental Conser-vation Officers used their patrol vessel to assist in deploying about 150 feet of hard boom and 75 feet of absorbent boom to contain the spill, Willis said.
Booms are floating, phys-ical barriers made of plastic, metal or other materials,
which slow the spread of oil and keep it contained. Skilled teams deploy booms using mooring systems such as anchors and land lines, according to the U.S. Envi-ronmental Protection Agen-cy.
Catski l l Fire Police blocked the entrance to the condominiums during the incident.
After the fuel spill was contained, Catskill fire-fighters turned the scene over to the spill response
team, officials said.Crews worked well into
the evening, containing and then cleaning up the spill.
The vessel’s owner con-tacted a marina to have the tank pumped and repair the leak. The booms and the pads will be removed by the Department of Envi-ronmental Conservation’s stand-by contractor, likely Wednesday, and the depart-ment will continue to moni-tor the cleanup to ensure it is protecting public health
and the environment, Wil-lis said.
Catskill fuel spill brings large response
BILL WILLIAMS/COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA
Several agencies responded to the Catskill Creek on Monday night, after a boat began leaking fuel.
BILL WILLIAMS/COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA
Crews from the Greene County Haz-Mat Team unload their gear, at the scene of a fuel spill on the Catskill Creek on Monday night.
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Catskill fire trucks line the driveway of Catskill Creek Condominiums after odor of diesel fuel was detected on Monday night.
By Ted RemsnyderColumbia-Greene Media
CATSKILL — The Greene County Cruisers’ annual car show has special meaning this year as it will raise money for Catskill High School senior Nahviya Chapple, 18, a day after she receives her high school di-ploma.
Chapple is undergoing treat-ment for B-cell, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, with the classic car show set to take place Saturday in Cairo’s Angelo Canna Park to help fund Chapple’s recovery.
The event will run on from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., June 2, with a rain date set for Sunday if needed.
Catskill High School teacher Wendy Casalino said the money will be well-timed for Chapple and her family.
“This money will come at a good time since Nahviya is graduating and unable to work or attend college at this point,” Casalino said.
Chapple continues to receive medical care as she prepares to graduate this weekend.
“They’re concerned, so they’re doing weekly blood work on her to make sure that everything’s OK and keeping an eye on that,” Casalino said of the student’s doctors. “They’re talk-ing about October or Novem-ber now before she can go back to Boston Children’s Hospital. The blood work is coming back OK, but they’re just concerned about her losing weight.”
Tom Plank, of the Greene County Cruisers, said Chapple is the perfect candidate for the group’s charitable efforts.
“Every year, we choose some-one as the recipient of the mon-ey that we make with the car show and the other things that we do during the year,” Plank said. “When we discussed it at
the beginning of the year, we learned of Nahviya’s situation from Madison Jones. She was our recipient last year for the motorcycle club and I actually asked Madison if she knew of someone else that would be a good recipient for this year and she told me about Nahviya’s situation.”
On Friday night, Plank will be driving Chapple to graduation in a 1966 Ford Fairlane convert-ible.
Plank previously drove Chap-ple to the Catskill Elks Lodge in a classic car for a birthday bash held in her honor April 9.
“We wanted her to arrive in style,” Plank said. “Since she couldn’t go to her prom, her birthday was a prom-themed birthday party. So, the kids all got dressed up and ,of course, if you’re going to the prom, you want to roll up in something nice. She’s going through a lot of stuff for a young girl her age and she’s doing it very well. She’s got a great positive attitude, but we can do things to make her a little happier. That’s what we’re here for.”
Plank, who is also a member of the Capital Region Chapter of the Protectors Law Enforce-ment Motorcycle Club, said the motorcycle group will conduct a benefit drive for Chapple on Sept. 24 to raise additional funds for the Catskill student.
The June 25 classic car show will feature local vendors and live music by Dusk Til Dawn. The fee to participate in the car show is $10 per every registered vehicle or motorcycle, with the first 100 cars to register getting complimentary goody bags. More than 30 plaques will be distributed in several specialty categories for the registered ve-hicles.
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Tom Plank of the Greene County Cruisers drove Catskill High School Senior Nahviya Chapple to her birthday party in April. The organization will raise money for Chapple at the group’s annual car show on June 25.
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As Brazil and much of the world looked on in the an-guishing search for indige-nous rights advocate Bruno Pereira and British journal-ist Dom Phillips, who went missing earlier this month in a violent stretch of north-west Amazon, images of the first suspect emerged in the media. Sinewy, whis-kered, with a sun-leathered complexion, Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira - a local fisherman who police say confessed to the crime and identified the location of the remains - didn’t look much like a crime boss. Nor did his younger brother Oseney, another alleged accomplice apprehended by federal police days later (he denies involvement). Investigators now say eight men might be linked to the killing.
In fact, Amazon trig-germen rarely fit the part. Some are squat, others lean, few have a full set of teeth. They favor flip-flops and flaunt none of the trappings of wealth and luxury you might associate with gainful criminal enterprise.
So it has been in the scat-ter plot of lethal violence afflicting the world’s largest rainforest for as long as I can recall. From Darly and Darci Alves, the rancher and son convicted of the 1988 murder of celebrated Amazonian rubber tapper Chico Mendes, to Rayfran das Neves Sales, the ranch hand who confessed to shooting U.S.-born Catholic nun Dorothy Stang in 2005, headline Amazon outlaws tend to make unimpressive villains.
It’s tempting to conclude, as did Brazil’s Federal Po-lice, that the suspected kill-ers of Pereira and Phillips “acted alone” and that the
killings were an isolated in-cident. Yet, as with so much else in the Amazon basin - sovereignty, command and control, the rule of law - this is an optical illusion.
This was something Pereira knew all too well. He had repeatedly alerted authorities to the systematic intrusion and plunder on indigenous territory, and was working with local com-munities to bulwark their lands. For this, he had been repeatedly threatened. Phil-lips, his frequent traveling companion, was likewise keeping close track of this issue.
Their work attempted to fill a void: In a time of pinpoint satellite defor-estation monitoring, GPS tools, ubiquitous drones and smartphones, much of the Amazon basin remains nonetheless out of sight and out of mind. A laissez faire of lawlessness and dysfunc-tional oversight institutions helps keep the blinders on. So much the better for the hothouse of Amazon crime networks, from gold dig-gers and timber Mafiosi to narcotraficantes (drug traffickers), who flourish in the shadows. The coveted rainforest that decades of Brazilian authorities - from last century’s military rulers to President Jair Bolsonaro - have defiantly claimed as “ours” is in fact up for grabs.
This is not to say that Pereira and Phillips were men marked for death by the Sinaloa or Miami drug cartels, or any of the trans-national cabals said to have infiltrated the region and set up a “parallel state.” Rather, chronic Amazonian anomie hands small-time outlaws a pass to poach, pillage and trespass on protected land and peddle their ill-gotten bounty.
Endemic misery across the Amazon only encourag-es transgression. Atalaia do Norte, the river town where the fishing mafia operates, ranks as the nation’s third-most destitute municipal-ity. Of course, even in the most desperate Amazonian hamlets, the vast majority abide by the law - but part of the riddle of the violence in the rainforest is the thin line separating predators and the population they prey upon.
Bolsonaro did not create Amazonian plunder and crime. Yet from downgrad-ing Brazil’s benchmark forest monitoring program to swapping out the govern-ment’s career indigenous experts with military “Men Friday” with no knowledge of the issue, few Brazilian leaders have done less to contain it. The mystery is that, even as his govern-ment has always champi-oned Amazon frontiersmen, it has done little to better their lot beyond rail at envi-ronmental safeguards and look away from those who would violate them.
A recent study by the Iga-rapé Institute, a think tank where I consult, uncovered a remarkably resilient un-derstory of sketchy mer-chants and markets, where legal and illegal goods min-gle and mesh. Neither the 369 federal interventions across the Brazilian Amazon between 2016 and 2021 nor the more than 100 special military operations car-ried out from 2018 through 2021 succeeded in reducing environmental crimes or violence.
Mac Margolis, an adviser to the Brazilian Igarapé Institute, writes frequently about Latin America. He is the author of “The Last New World: The Conquest of the Ama-zon Frontier.”
The killings of two men in the Amazon tell a larger story
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There’s a good reason “Top Gun: Maverick” has soared past $800 million in box-office receipts: It has Tom Cruise, mind-blowing aerial sequenc-es and a rousing storyline. But according to many right-wing commentators, the actual rea-son it’s so popular is that it’s so conservative.
Breitbart celebrated it as “a masculine, pro-American, stri-dently non-woke blockbuster.” The Daily Caller gushed: “‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Crushes The Box Office As Americans Crave Non-Woke Content.” Ben Sha-piro praised the film for be-ing patriotic and not “treating the military as either victims of mental health problems or people who are victimized by the evil American regime, or as imperialists themselves.”
If you want more evidence that the right has lost the plot, this is it. For starters, while the hero of “Top Gun: Maverick” is an old, straight White guy doing patriotic deeds, his co-pilots re-flect the diversity of the armed forces. By my count, they in-clude two women, a Latino American, three Asian Ameri-cans (one of them a woman) and two African Americans. Black actors also portray a chief warrant officer and an admiral, among other characters. That’s a lot more diversity than in the original “Top Gun,” reflecting the changes in U.S. society and the U.S. military since 1986.
For another thing, the plot of “Top Gun: Maverick” is exactly the kind of foreign policy inter-ventionism that the right once embraced but now generally opposes (at least when it’s not President Donald Trump or-dering the strike): The aviators are sent on a mission to bomb some unnamed country’s nu-clear reactor before it can be-come operational. They aren’t bombing Mexico - the kind of mission the “America First” crowd would presumably pre-fer today. (The orange emperor actually suggested launching
missiles at drug labs in Mexico.)But the biggest reason the
right’s celebration of “Top Gun: Maverick” is so ludicrous is that it is rooted in outdated stereo-types of the left as anti-military and the right as pro-military. That might have been true in the 1970s, when some radi-cals were calling Vietnam War veterans “baby killers,” but it’s definitely not true today. Note that President Joe Biden is in-creasing, not decreasing, de-fense spending after four years of Republicans in power.
Meanwhile, the right has turned on the military with a vengeance for not being MAGA enough. At the nutty Texas Re-publican Party’s convention, which concluded on Saturday, Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, who lost an eye in combat while serving as a Navy SEAL in Afghanistan, was accosted by far-right activists who derided him as a traitor and called him “eyepatch McCain.” This was a slur coined by Fox “News” host Tucker Carlson, who has never served in uniform, to de-ride Crenshaw for supporting aid to Ukraine - a cause that all Republicans would have sup-ported back when the original “Top Gun” was released.
A staunch conservative, Crenshaw has also earned the ire of the far right for accepting that Biden won the 2020 elec-tion and calling out “grifters” in Congress who dupe the con-servative faithful. For this, he is being mocked for a war injury.
This is appalling but hardly surprising anymore. Trump started it in 2015 when he at-tacked John McCain for having been a POW; of course there was no danger of Trump be-ing captured since he escaped the draft with supposed bone spurs. If the GOP were truly a pro-military party, it wouldn’t have endorsed a candidate who mocked a war hero. But that ugly insult was no bar to Trump’s nomination.
Trump went on to appoint a bunch of generals to senior positions in his administration
and then turned on them when they stood up to him. He has called U.S. generals “weak,” “woke,” “ineffective” and “a bunch of pussies.” He was also reported to have described American war dead as “losers” and “suckers.”
Again, none of these insults have hurt his standing with the base one iota. That encour-ages all of the mini-Trumps to mount their own attacks on our armed forces. Trashing the mil-itary has become the way to es-tablish your MAGA bona fides.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has accused Gen. Mark Milley of a “treasonous leak of classi-fied information to the Chinese Communist Party.” (No, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is not actually a Chinese agent.) Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, accused “Dem politicians & woke media” into turning U.S. troops “into pansies.” Ohio Republican Senate nominee J.D. Vance accused retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey, one of Amer-ica’s most decorated soldiers, of being a war profiteer who “drank fine wine . . . while thou-sands of working class kids died on the battlefield.”
The irony is that Crenshaw is one of the Republicans lu-dicrously maligning the U.S. military - an inherently conser-vative institution dominated by White men - as being way too left-wing. “We won’t let our military fall to woke ideol-ogy,” Crenshaw tweeted last year, announcing that he and Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., a fel-low veteran, were setting up a website where whistleblow-ers could send in complaints about liberal military policies. What goes around, comes around, congressman.
Sorry, Republicans: You can’t celebrate “Top Gun: Mav-erick” for glorifying the military while you’re denigrating it. At least not with a straight face.
Max Boot is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of “The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the Ameri-can Tragedy in Vietnam.”
Republicans can’t celebrate ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ while
denigrating the military
Everything we know about voting in New York state winds up at the same point. Casting a ballot for the candi-date of your choice is grow-ing more intricate.
With the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act signed into law Monday by Gov. Kathy Hochul, denying or abridg-ing the right of any member of a protected class to vote will have consequences. “Democracy only works if everyone who’s eligible can participate in it and the rights of the voter are respected,” Hochul said.
The fundamental right to vote, much like a woman’s right to decide, is under siege in 2022. In shocking
revelation after shocking revelation, we’re learning the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the na-tion’s Capitol was an attempt by a despotic president to overthrow the government by overturning the 2020 elec-tion.
It’s great to see the leg-islation is named in honor of John Lewis, a civil rights activist and a U.S. represen-tative for Georgia’s 5th Con-gressional District from 1987 until his death in 2020. Lewis made his stand to prohibit deceptive and suppressive voter practices in every state of the nation.
Across the country, we’re seeing stricter voter identi-fication laws, shorter early
voting periods and more complications when voters try to cast ballots by mail, which became paramount during the pandemic. We’re seeing people purged from voter rolls and we have seen attacks on the duly elected government.
New York countered this frightening trend by enacting the strongest voter protec-tion law of any state in the country. That should send a powerful message to those who would unravel a basic American rights. Every vote counts, every vote should be counted and all voters are important. Our democracy depends on it.
Democracy depends on voting for all
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By Russell Gloor, National Social Security Advisor at the AMAC FoundationFor Columbia-Greene Media
Dear Rusty: If someone is collecting
long-term disability through their company and the com-pany states the employee also must apply through So-cial Security, how does this work? Does the amount of Social Security decrease from the amount that the person would normally receive upon retirement? Is long-term dis-ability for life, or just until you are of retirement age? How about for the spouse of that individual? Would it have any impact on them?
Signed: ConcernedDear Concerned:It’s common for private
long term disability (LTD) insurers to require that you apply for Social Security Dis-ability Insurance (SSDI) ben-efits. Typically, the private LTD benefit will be offset (reduced) by the federal SSDI benefit.
The SSDI benefit amount, if awarded, will be the full So-cial Security benefit earned up to the point the recipient becomes disabled and unable to work. That means someone on SSDI before full retire-ment age (FRA) gets their FRA amount earlier (FRA is some-where between 66 and 67 de-pending on the year of birth). The SSDI benefit will be based on the disabled person’s life-time earnings history, un-reduced for claiming earlier than full retirement age. SSDI will automatically convert to regular SS retirement benefits at the same amount when FRA is attained. Thus, getting SSDI doesn’t detract from the person’s FRA benefit amount; rather they get their FRA
amount earlier. Social Security disability
benefits last for as long as you remain disabled, or up to your SS full retirement age. To be eligible, the disability must be expected to last for at least one year, and the disabil-ity must render you unable to perform significant work. You must also have worked recently (usually at least 5 of the last 10 years) to main-tain eligibility, and you must have contributed Social Se-curity FICA payroll taxes (or self-employment taxes) from your work earnings. Only very limited work earnings are al-lowed when collecting Social Security Disability Insurance benefits, and Social Security may periodically require con-firmation of continued SSDI eligibility.
Applying for SSDI is a relatively easy process which can be done online at www.s s a . g o v / a p p l y f o r d i s a b i l-ity, or by calling SS directly at 1.800.772.1213. Depending on the nature of the disability, it usually takes 3 to 5 months to obtain a determination and, if SSDI is approved, there is a 5 month wait for benefits to start. If the SSDI applica-tion is initially denied (about 65% of all initial applications are) you can exercise several levels of appeal, starting with
simply requesting a recon-sideration by Social Security, followed, if necessary, by a hearing with an independent Administrative Law Judge, a review by the SSDI Appeals Council, or even an appeal to Federal Court. Hopefully, if the applicant is now on pri-vate long term disability, the SSDI application will be ini-tially approved.
As for whether the spouse of a person on SSDI is af-fected, much depends on the spouse’s age and how the spouse’s own SS retire-ment benefit compares to the disabled partner’s SSDI benefit. Benefits for a spouse are available as early as age 62, but the spouse’s personal FRA benefit amount (from their own lifetime earnings record) must be less than 50% of the disabled partner’s SSDI amount to get a spousal boost from the disabled spouse. Otherwise, one marriage partner being on SSDI will not affect the other partner’s per-sonal Social Security retire-ment benefit.
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CITIZENS CLUBS
CATSKILL — Some clubs may not have resumed meet-ings due to COVID-19.
Athens Senior Citizens meet at 1:15 p.m. the second and fourth Monday at River-town Senior Center, 39 Sec-ond St., Athens,
Cairo Golden Agers meet at 1:30 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesday at Acra Community Center, Old Route 23, Cairo.
Catskill Silver Linings meet at 1 p.m. the second Thursday of the Month at the Robert C. Antonelli Se-nior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill.
Coxsackie Area Seniors meet at 1 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesday at Van Heest Hall, Bethany Vil-lage, Coxsackie.
Senior Citizens of Cox-sackie meet at 2 p.m. the first and third Monday at the Town of Coxsackie Senior Center, 127 Mansion St., Coxsackie.
Greenville Golden Ag-ers meet at 1 p.m. the first Wednesday at the American Legion Hall, 54 Maple Ave., Greenville.
Mountain Top Golden Agers meet at 1;30 p.m. the fourth Thursday at Tanners-ville Fire Hall, Main Avenue, Tannersville.
WAJPL Golden Age Club meet at 1 p.m. the first and third Monday at Windham Town Building, 371 Route 296, Hensonville.
ALZHEIMER’S WARNING SIGNS
ATHENS — The 10 Warn-ing Signs of Alzheimer’s, an education program present-ed by the Alzheimer’s Asso-ciation, will be held noon-1 p.m. June 24 at the Rivertown
Senior Center, 39 Second St., Athens. Learn about the difference between normal aging and Alzheimer’s; com-mon warning signs; the im-portance of early detection and benefits of diagnosis; next steps and expectations for the diagnostic process; Alzheimer’s Association re-sources. Visit alz.org/CRF to explore additional education programs online and in the area. Registration is not re-quired but is encouraged. To register, call 518-675-7214.
CATSKILL PUBLIC LIBRARY
CATSKILL — The Catskill Public Library circulation desk is at the Robert C. An-tonelli Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesdays for seniors to pick up or return library materials, or get tech help from the staff. For inforamtion, www.catskill-publiclibrary.org for details.
WAJPL GOLDEN AGERS
HENSONVILLE — The WAJPL Golden Age Club has started the regular, bi-monthly meetings complete with theme months, and has announced the long awaited trip schedule.
July 19, What’s Love Got to Do With It, Tina Turner Trib-ute at The Brownstone, $70. The big trip will be from July 26 through July 28 to Booth-bay Harbor, Maine, $535. Sept. 13 is “Nat & Natalie” tribute to Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole at the Brown-stone, $70. In November we will be going to the Log Cabin on the 10th for the Di-rect From Branson Country Christmas show featuring the Ozark Jubilee, $70. To make reservations, call Mary Louise at 518-622-3397.
COFFEE KLATCH
HUNTER — The Hunter Public Library, 7965 Main St., Hunter, holds a coffee klatch 10 a.m.-noon the sec-ond Tuesday of the month with light refreshments, cof-fee and tea.
GETSETUP ONLINE CLASSES
ALBANY — New York State Office for the Aging has part-nered with the Association
on Aging in New York and GetSetUp to provide free virtual classes for older adults taught by peers, ask questions, make friends, learn new things and have fun. Classes include Core Fitness, Yoga, Food and Nu-trition, Virtual Travel, Re-starting your Career. Take classes from the comfort of your home. Go to wwww.g e t s e t u p . o r g / p a r t n e r /NYSTATE. Use coupon code: NYSTATE. For information and help, call 1-888-559-1614 or [email protected].
GREENVILLE GOLDEN YEARSGREENVILLE — The
Greenville Golden Years presents Neil and Billy to-gether on stage, Neil Dia-mond Meets Billy Joel with twin lobsters or prime rib July 28 at the Log Cabin in Holyoke, Mass. The cost is $79 and includes roundtrip motor coach transportation, twin lobster or prime rib of beef, Neil Diamond and Billy Joel tribute show, meal taxes and gratuities and driver’s gratuities. Lunch includes twin lobsters or prime rib, hors d’oeuvres, bread, clam chowder, baked potato, corn, dessert, coffee or tea. For reservations, call Phyllis Wissert at 518-943-9028. Bus pick up at Greenville and Exit 21 in Catskill.
CATSKILL SILVER LININGSCATSKILL — The Catskill
Silver Livings will host a bus trip to Philadelphia featuring the Museum of the American Revolution, three days and two nights, Aug. 22 through Aug. 24. The cost is $370 double occupancy and $510 single occupancy. The pack-ages include two nights lodg-ing, 2 breakfasts, 1 dinner, and more.
The group is also hosting a bus trip to the Pioneer Val-ley of western Massachusetts featuring a fireplace feast at the Salem Cross Inn, four days and three nights, Sept. 19 through Sept. 22. The cost is $595 double occupancy and $860 single occupancy. For information and reser-vations on both trips, call Georgianna Ramsay at 518-622-3257.
Senior Briefs
CATSKILL — The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets col-laborates with the New York State Department of Health, the New York State Office for the Aging and Cornell Coop-erative Extension in admin-istering the Farmers Market Nutrition Program (FMNP). The purpose of the program is to promote improved nu-trition through increased consumption of locally grown fresh fruits and veg-etables. It is also intended to expand sales at farmers’ markets and farm stands.
Each Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) check booklet is worth $20 and contains five $4 checks. Eligibility is determined by two factors: age and income. Issuance of SFMNP checks are targeted to New York State residents, 60 and older, who affirm they are low-income. The criteria for income is a gross monthly income at or below $2,096/month for a one-per-son household; $2,823 for a two-person household, or have income levels that in-crease by $728/month based on the number of person’s in the applicant’s household. Checks will be issued on a FIRST COME FIRST SERVE basis. Each older adult in a household is eligible to re-ceive a booklet if they meet
the requirements.Participants must com-
plete a Statement of Eligi-bility to be issued a coupon book. Coupon books must be picked up in person at a designated location and cannot be done through the mail. Coupons may be used by recipients through Nov. 30. A designated proxy (a person authorized to receive and/or redeem SFMNP checks) may pick up cou-pon books on behalf of an older adult if the older adult has signed a statement of eligibility and completed the proxy form. Note: one individual may serve as the named proxy for multiple older adults. In order for the checks to be issued to a proxy, the proxy must pres-ent identification as well as written approval from the participant.
While checks are good throughout New York state, consumers are reminded that all farmers at Farmers’ Markets do not accept them. They can only be redeemed with a Newe York state par-ticipating farmer. When wishing to use a SFMNP check, look for the sign that states the booth is a par-ticipating farmer or be sure to ask if there is no sign. In Greene County, the follow-ing are authorized locations: Black Horse Farm in Athens;
Bulich Creekside Farm Stand in Leeds, Catskill Farmers Market, Fromer Market Gardens in Tanners-ville and Stoneledge Farm Stand in Leeds.
Coupon booklets will be available after July 11 at the following locations:
ATHENS Rivertown Se-nior Apartments 10-10:30 a.m. July 12; Rivertown Se-nior Center, 1-3 p.m. Mon-day through Friday.
CAIRO Fairground Estates 3:30-4 p.m. July 12; Acra Community Center 12:30-1 p.m. Monday through Fri-day.
CATSKILL Autumn Grove 10 a.m. July 11; Orchard Estates 10:30 a.m. July 11; Kaaterskill Manor11:30 a.m. July 11; Robert Antonelli Senior Center 10-10:30 a.m. July 14; after July 14, 12:30-1 p.m. Monday through Fri-day.
COXSACKIE Town of Cox-sackie Senior Center 9:03-10 a.m. July 13, after July 13, 12:30-1 p.m. Monday through Friday; Bethany Vil-lage Housing 10-11 a.m. July 13.
MOUNTAIN TOP Jewett Senior Center 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. July 16.
Any questions can be ad-dressed by contacting the Department at 518-719-3555.
Farmer’s Market checks available soonBy Marisa Korytko
For Columbia-Greene Media
People living with Al-zheimer’s disease or other dementia experience stig-mas and stereotypes every day. Facing and overcoming stigma can be a significant challenge for these individu-als and their families.
This June, during Al-zheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month, the Alzheimer’s As-sociation is revealing insights from people living with early-stage dementia. Here are six things they want you to know about living with Alzheimer’s and other dementia:
n My Alzheimer’s diagnosis does not define me. Although an Alzheimer’s diagnosis is life changing, many living with the disease say their di-agnosis does not change who they are. They want to con-tinue doing the activities they enjoy for as long as possible and stay engaged with family and friends.
n If you want to know how I am doing, just ask me. The sudden change in how others communicate with someone recently diagnosed with Al-zheimer’s or another demen-tia is a frustrating experience for many living with the dis-ease. Many individuals say it can be upsetting when fam-ily and friends only check on the person through a spouse or an adult child. They say avoiding or side-stepping
direct communication only makes them feel more iso-lated and alone.
n� Yes, younger people can have dementia. While the vast majority of Americans affected by Alzheimer’s and other dementia are age 65 and older, the disease can affect younger individuals. Those diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s (before age 65) say it is important for oth-ers to avoid the common mis-conception that Alzheimer’s and other dementia only af-fects older people and to take cognitive concerns seriously at any age.
n� Please don’t debate my diagnosis or tell me I don’t look like I have Alzheimer’s. While family members and friends may be well-intended in attempting to dismiss an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, many living with the disease say such responses can be of-fensive. If someone says they have been diagnosed with dementia, take them at their word.
n� Understand sometimes my words and actions are not me, it’s my disease. As Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia progresses, individuals can experience a wide range of disease-related behaviors, including anxiety, aggression and confusion. Diagnosed individuals say it’s important for others to
recognize disease-related symptoms, so they are bet-ter prepared to support the person and navigate com-munication and behavioral challenges.
n� An Alzheimer’s diagno-sis does not mean my life is over. Earlier detection and diagnosis of Alzheimer’s dis-ease and other dementia is enabling individuals more time to plan their futures and prioritize doing the things most important to them.
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WASHINGTON - Several dozen protesters from both sides of the abortion debate shouted, rallied and waved competing scripture interpre-tations outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday, one of the last days the court could release its decision in a case that direct-ly challenges the constitutional right to abortion established in Roe v. Wade nearly 50 years ago.
A decision didn’t come, but advocates said they will return Thursday, the next time a deci-sion could be announced.
“We are calling on everybody to come back into these streets, to stop what you are doing - I don’t care what kind of incon-venience it is. You know what’s inconvenient? Having your life shattered by forced mother-hood. And we are the ones who can stop this. There is nobody else,” Sunsara Taylor of New York City, co-founder of Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, told a crowd of about 100 in which journalists and passersby out-numbered advocates.
Taylor said advocates would be there Thursday “and every single day until the Supreme Court rules, and if they take this right away, every day until they reverse that decision. This is our responsibility. This is our duty.”
Advocates for abortion ac-cess outnumbered opponents about 2-1 Tuesday morning.
Many abortion rights ad-vocates have been protesting for more than a month, after a leaked draft opinion overturn-ing Roe was published in May. Each week, they have been bracing for the high court’s final majority opinion in the
most highly anticipated deci-sion of the term.
They have chanted on the National Mall, rallied out-side the Supreme Court and marched past the homes of conservative justices. Authori-ties arrested a man this month they say traveled from Califor-nia in an attempt to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Antiabortion activists found encouragement in the leaked draft after spending nearly half
a century working toward the goal of overturning Roe and banning abortion across the country.
Americans support the land-mark abortion decision in Roe v. Wade by a ratio of 2-1, ac-cording to a November 2021 Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Araceli Herrera, 72, came from San Antonio, Texas, to protest outside the court. She said that in her youth, she was
raped by classmates in Mexico, where getting an abortion was illegal. She raised her son with-out telling him until he was an adult about his father.
“Not having the right to abor-tion puts women in chains,” she said in an interview in Spanish. “When my son grew up, it was the hardest thing for me. Imagine if your son asks, ‘Who is my father? Where is he?’ What do you tell him? ‘You are the product of a rape.’ “
With Supreme Court abortion ruling pending, protesters rally and wait
WASHINGTON POST PHOTO BY MATT MCCLAIN
Abortion rights and antiabortion activists, including Terrisa Bukovinac, holding up a fake fetus, demonstrate outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON POST PHOTO BY MATT MCCLAIN
An abortion rights activist is detained after handcuffing herself to a fence at the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
Frank Kummer and Rodrigo Torrejon The Philadelphia Inquirer
PHILADELPHIA — The Wharton State Forest wildfire, possibly the largest fire in New Jersey in 15 years, has con-sumed about 13,500 acres of the Pinelands, and is 85% con-tained, officials from the New Jersey Forest Fire Service said late Tuesday morning.
Officials said they have ruled out a lightning strike as a cause, and are focusing on an “illegal
unattended campfire.”Two major roads, Routes
and 542, which had been closed for two days, are now open.
However, Batsto Village, At-sion Recreation Area, Mullica River Campground and Lower Forge Campground all remain closed. Nearby hiking and bik-ing trails are also closed. Kayak and canoe launches along the Mullica River, Atsion, Batsto, also closed. Pinelands Ad-ventures has suspended its
paddling trips.Although 18 structures were
threatened, all remain intact. There have been no injuries re-ported.
Some facilities should be open within 24 hours, but hik-ing and biking trails will likely remain closed longer until they can be inspected.
Officials say, however, there is still smoke in the area, and firefighters may be working on nearby roadways.
Wildfire in New Jersey state forest spans 13,500 acres of the Pinelands
Mary Jane Mancini, 87, of Catskill died April 24, 2022. Me-morial Mass at St. Patrick’s Church, Catskill, Monday at 12:00. www.MillspaughCamerato.com.
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Oneonta – Barbara I. Brandow, 89, passed away June 19, 2022 at her home.
She was born August 5, 1932 in Maplecrest, the daughter of David Bell and Lucy (Crandell) Irish.
Barbara graduated from Wind-ham Ashland Jewett Central School, Valedictorian of the Class of 1950.
She married Alton “Dutch” Bran-dow on September 19, 1952.
Barbara was the co-owner and operator of a dairy farm in Fergusonville from 1960 to 1986. She and her husband were the founding owners for Feed & Seed in Oneonta from 1991 to 2005, at that time transition-ing to their grandson, Scott Brandow, the current owner of Brandow’s Feed & Seed.
She enjoyed camping and spending the winters in Florida with close friends Richard and Andrea Hodges. Barbara has resided at St. James Manor for the last 6 years accumulating many close friends.
She is survived by her children, Marylee and husband, Dwayne Hill of Harpersfield, Glen Brandow of Standish, ME and Mark Brandow of Davenport; 7 grandchildren; 7 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by husband, Dutch on March 31, 2011; her son, William Brandow and her sister, Doris (Irish) Garvey.
A graveside service will be held 2 p.m., July 5, 2022, at the Davenport Cemetery, with the Rev. Dorothy Morris, officiat-ing. The cemetery is located behind the school and gas sta-tion on State Highway 23, Davenport, NY.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Daven-port Fire Department, PO Box 77, Davenport, NY 13750 or to the WAJ Alumni Association, PO Box 244, Hensonville, NY 12439.
Online condolences, stories and photos may be shared at, www.lhpfuneralhome.com, the website of Oneonta’s only family owned funeral home, Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono at 51 Dietz Street.
Barbara I. BrandowAugust 5, 1932 - June 19, 2022
Antone L. Bulich, 90, of Leeds, passed away at his home on June 19, 2022. He was born into a large farm family in Alsen, NY on March 31, 1932, the son of the late John and Johanna (Nemec). He, along with his father and brothers, later established Bulich Mushroom Farm on Embought Road in Catskill, NY.
Antone served his country honor-ably in the United States Army during the Korean War. After returning home to Catskill from military service, he met his future wife of 61 years, Regina Buhrke. They were married on Janu-ary 1, 1961 and lived in the Catskill area their entire lives where they raised five daughters, and one son.
In July 1983, he and his wife purchased land along the Catskill Creek in Leeds and established “Bulich’s Creekside Farm”. The farm specializes in fruits and vegetables. Over the past several years, his son Ron, who owns and operates the farm, has taken great pride in continuing his father’s legacy of hard work and atten-tion to details. Antone was a big supporter of his children’s educa-tion at St. Patrick’s Grammar School and High School. He loved attending his children’s many baseball, soccer, basketball games, and other school events, which he truly enjoyed. He was known to be a straight shooter, smooth talker, charmer, and a hard worker who took great pride in his family and his farm. His family was every-thing to him. Antone loved to be home just relaxing on his porch. He was a great husband and father. He enjoyed teaching his children how to swim, ride bikes, shoot baskets, play baseball, shoot/handle a gun, and work together as a family. Every year on the anniversary of his father’s death, May 10th, he would plant the first tomato plant of the season. During his last years, Antone stayed courageous, smiled, and devoted to his family and faith.
In addition to his parents, he was predeceased by four broth-ers: Stanley Bulich, John Bulich, Frank Bulich, and Jim Bulich: five sisters, Rose Wynne, Helen Osborne, Katherine Staccio, Lucy Sul-livan, and Millie Brumighan.
Antone is survived by his devoted wife Regina Bulich; son Ron Bulich and partner Melissa Campbell; five daughters: Heidi Bulich and husband Mike Poterala, Monica DeSousa, Linda Bulich and husband Phil Hartigan, Jennifer Bruck and husband Tom, and Er-icka Valenti and husband Todd. Several grandchildren, Johanna Poterala, Andrew Poterala, Jack Hartigan, Katherine Hartigan, Camryn Hartigan, Cierra Bruck, Taylor Bruck, and Vincent Valenti II, and by several nieces, nephews, grandnieces, and grandnephews. He is also survived by a brother Raymond Bulich; two sisters, Sandy Traver and Mary Rauf.
Calling hours will be held on Thursday from 10:00 - 2:00 pm at Millspaugh Camerato Funeral Home, 139 Jefferson Hgts., Catskill. A Funeral Service will then be conducted at the funeral home at 2:00 pm. The Rev. Michael P. Melanson, Parochial Vicar of St. Patrick’s Church will officiate. Interment will follow in St. Patrick’s Cemetery with Military Honors by the American Legion and United States Ar-my.
The Bulich family would like to give a special thank you to Bruce Apjon and Community Hospice for their care and compassion dur-ing Antone’s final days.
In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to the wonderful local organization Community Hospice at 47 Liberty Street, Catskill, New York 12414 (https://www.communityhospice.org/donate). Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Millspaugh Camerato Funeral Home in Catskill, New York.
To offer online condolences, please visit MillspaughCamerato.com.
Antone L. BulichMarch 31, 1932 - June 19, 2022
Robert C. Hopkins, 81, of Hillsdale passed away on June 18, 2022, at Columbia Memorial Hospital. He was born on November 15, 1940, in Win-throp, Massachusetts. Bob graduat-ed from Wakefield High School before enlisting in the Army. In 1963, he re-turned home and began pursuing his bachelor’s in business administration from Boston University. In 1966, Bob married Sally Porteous and together they enjoyed 55 years of marriage.
Robert was a business owner, and community member of Hillsdale for most of his life. He was the principal broker at Roeliff- Jansen Insurance Agency for years, until deciding to slow down. At which time he sold the agency to Bostwick Insurance Group where he served as Vice President under Craig Thorn. Bob then went to work as an associate for Metzwood Insurance in Chatham, until his retirement in 2021.
Bob was active in the community as well. He was a past presi-dent for two terms with the RoeJan Lions Club, served on the Zoning Board of Appeals for Hillsdale, and was a life member of the Hillsdale Fire Company. Bob was an avid golfer and long-time member at Columbia Country Club. He played as regularly as was possible until his back prohibited him from the game. He also enjoyed his Monday night card game with his cronies, right up till last week. Bob was also an avid reader, who enjoyed doing crossword puzzles. A good man, with simple tastes. His greatest joy was spending time with his family of which he was so proud.
Bob is survived by his wife of 55 years, Sally. His son, Mat-thew Hopkins, grandchild Nora Hopkins, and his sister Sandra Hale.
In addition to his parents, he is also predeceased by his daughter, Kelley Hopkins.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, June 25 at 11:00 am from the West Copake Reformed Church, 2692 County Route 7, West Copake. Burial will follow in North Hillsdale Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers contributions in Bob’s memory may be made to either the West Copake Reformed Church, or to the Com-munity Rescue Squad. For directions or to leave a message of condolence please visit www.peckandpeck.net
Robert C. HopkinsNovember 15, 1940 - June 18, 2022
CATSKILL. Harold (Harry) D. Krak-enberg, 83, of Hickory Ridge Rd. died Saturday, June 18, 2022 at the North-ern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck, NY. Born December 25, 1938 in As-toria, Queens he was the son of the late Harold and Elizabeth Krakenberg. Harry owned and operated Hickory Ridge Builders. Many custom beau-tiful homes in the area can be attrib-uted to his skill and expertise. Aside from building beautiful homes, Harry trained and supported many young men to learn the skills of carpentry and homebuilding.
A formula 4 race car enthusiast, he raced at Lyme Rock, Wat-kins Glen and in New Hampshire. He belonged to the SCCA Race Car Drivers Association. His first race car was a 1961 Elva Courier.
Sober over 33 years, Harold was devoted to and believed in the principles of AA and the 12 step-program where sharing and caring for people was the utmost value important in life. Harry cared for and supported many people in the Woodstock rooms. He was known for his willingness to help people especially be-ginners caught in the struggle for sobriety.
Survivors include a son, Paris C. Krakenberg of NYC., a step daughter, Anne David of Monroe. Two sisters: Nancy E.K. Schaef of Saugerties and Susan Robertson of Mt. Tremper. A brother-in-law, Rev. Finley Schaef. Two grandchildren: Paris K. and Aiden C.Krakenberg. A niece Heather Roberts and nephew Brian A. Robertson also survive. He was predeceased by his beloved wife, Sara Miot Krakenberg.
Visitation will be held Friday, June 24, 2022 ,2-4pm and 7-9pm at the Seamon-Wilsey Funeral Home, Inc. Cor. of John & Lafay-ette Sts., Saugerties. Expressions of condolence may be shared with the family at SeamonWilseyFuneralHome.com.
Harold (Harry) D. KrakenbergDecember 25, 1938 - June 18, 2022
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The most interesting thing about James Millard’s lease, outside of the description of the privilege of access en-joyed by the Canajoharie and Catskill railroad, is George Clarke’s apparent optimism. The George Clarke who leased his land for a lumberyard to Millard in 1844 was the son of George Clarke, Esq. who had returned to the United States from England in the 1790s and built the family seat at Hyde Hall in Otsego County in the 1820s. When Clarke the builder died in 1834 one of the many valuable assets left to his heirs was 100 shares of stock in the Canajoharie and Catskill Railway amounting to $3,250.00 (a value equivalent to about $110,000.00 in 2022). It is small wonder that in 1844 Clarke still held hope that the railroad his father held no inconsiderable number of shares in would still pay off somehow, but the possibility proved to be far fetched.
In the time since his father’s death the Canajoharie and Catskill Railway had mutated
from promising concept into a financial albatross plagued by legislative investigations, sub-par equipment, and skyrock-eting operating costs which had doomed the railroad to oblivion. The railroad was done and gone for all intents and purposes roughly two years before James Millard decided see if he could repur-pose the lot into a lumberyard and dock. Clarke’s obvious interest in seeing a return on his investment aside, the fail-ure of the Canajoharie and Catskill Railroad also meant the loss of an opportunity to rapidly increase the value of the other lands his family held in Catskill.
Because Clarke owned the land on which the Rail-road had its terminal both before and after the railroad existed, there is a possibility he also leased the land to the railroad during the period it operated (though no extant lease is available to prove the arrangement). The terms of this lease would be interest-ing to see, as it would indicate whether Clarke viewed the railroad venture itself as an opportunity to make money
(i.e. he leased to them for a considerable fee) or as an op-portunity to facilitate a busi-ness that would help grow the value of his other lands by leasing to them at a lower fee. It may even be possible Clarke accepted shares in their stock as payment, or that he purchased the stock as a way
to earn returns because he had already leased the land to someone else who sub-let the land to the Railroad company. More research is required to discern the facts of this ar-rangement.
What is clear is the man-ner in which George Clarke, Esq. rode the transformative
wave of Catskill’s boom years prior to the opening of the Erie Canal. Many of his leases illustrate a sense for develop-ment that one might consider typical on an English manor of the period. From the 1790s through the 1810s Clarke sold land in some cases, but leased land in many other instances to businessmen and people with ready capital often on the term of two lives. This method, by which the lessee and their progeny held the land for their lifetimes, offered subtle benefits for Clarke. The terms often placed the tax burden on the lessee while also requir-ing the lessee to make certain improvements. For his lands in the Village of Catskill this method helped to drive up the value of unimproved lands Clarke owned adjacent to those he leased while simulta-neously relieving any burden of cost for his continued own-ership of the leased lot. All of this ensured Clarke an income while also giving the lessee what appears to be relatively favorable terms.
Specifically on Lot 6 in the first division of the Lindesay Patent it seems Clarke not
only leased, but renegotiated with the lessees and re-leased lands as the village street plan slowly developed overtop of the old division lines of 1741. The lands around those Clarke leased to James Millard for his lumberyard perfectly exem-plify this. Before the village grid had been fully developed Clarke leased all of lot six to Dr. Thomas Thomson and his sons James, Thomas, and John Alexander for the duration of the life of the longest lived among them. As connecting and parallel streets adjoining Main were laid down and lot 6 was transected Clarke appar-ently came to an arrangement to re-lease unused portions of the lot. In so doing he al-luded to the previous Clarke-Thomson lease when he sold lands on the west side of Main Street to hoteliers Elnathan Gaylord and Edwin Croswell and leased a neighboring lot to William Magilton. Clarke likewise described this earlier arrangement when he leased James Millard land along Catskill Creek.
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George Clarke and the Canajoharie and Catskill Railway, Part III
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An 18th century copy of the first and second divisions of the Lindesay Patent covering the lands under the east half of the modern Village of Catskill.
WAJ BAND AND CHORUS PERFORM AT MUSIC IN THE PARKS FESTIVAL
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Select Band and Chorus students from Windham-Ashland-Jewett Central School, under the
direction of Leslie Beauregard and Annie Drewello, performed at the Music in the Parks Festival
in Agawam, Mass. All members of the Junior and Senior Bands and Choruses were given the
opportunity to audition for a place in the Music in the Parks ensembles. The following students
met all audition requirements and were able to participate in the festival. Logan Andrews, Piper
Cohane, Payton Dempsey, Nevaeh Dippold, Angelina Domena, Sophia Dyjak, Casey Garraghan,
Gianna Garzone, John Garzone, Brian Greene, Christian Greene, Kameron Greene, Charlotte
Hamer, Isabella Hamer, Kenzie Holdridge, Aly Hoyt, Rhianna Johnston, Avery LaPlace, Tyler
Lashua, Brianna Leishear, Selina Li, Edwin Lopez, John Lucania, Gabe Maeurer, Luke Maeurer,
Amanda Nilsen, Jayden Palumbo, Isabel Pedrick, Jack Pellettier, Zeta Pitti, Rhiannon Post, Rory
Pranchak, Kayla Rusk, Ryan Rusk, Devin Schlosser, Riley Slater, Harrison Smith, Jacob Sutch, Lada
Svechnikova, Matt Weiman, Lexi Weinberg.
Music in the Parks is a motivational, one-day festival where the students perform two musical
selections for adjudicators, and receive a rating. As part of the process, judges provide both written
and recorded comments on the performance. The students are rated on categories such as: tone,
interpretation, technique, etc. At the end of the day, the students enjoy themselves at Six Flags
Amusement Park as a reward for their hard work preparing for the festival.
NAZARETH COLLEGE
PALENVILLE — Naza-reth student Alexa Powell of Palenville has received a study abroad grant from The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society. She is a senior majoring in mu-sical theatre. She will study at Roehampton University in London, England, in fall 2022.
BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE
SAUGERTIES — Josh Arse-nault of Saugerties has been named to the Spring 2022 Dean’s List at Buffalo State College. Arsenault is major-ing in Technology Educa-tion.
BUFFALO — Buffalo State congratulates the students who completed the require-ments to earn their bacca-laureate degrees in spring 2022.
Clara Sensini of Kingston, Patrick Byrne of East Dur-ham, Steven Baxter of Ath-ens.
HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY
WOODSTOCK — Lucca Lofaro of Woodstock excelled during the Spring 2022 se-mester at Hofstra, achieving a GPA of at least 3.5 to earn a spot on the Dean’s List.
SUNY ONEONTA
ONEONTA — More than 1,200 SUNY Oneonta stu-dents earned Dean’s List honors for the spring 2022 semester.
Daniel Ball of Saugerties who is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Physics Unde-clared Major. Alexa Belrose of West Kill who is pursu-ing a Bachelor of Science in Adolescence Education.: Mathematics Mathematics. Alice Brennan of Greenville who is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in English and Me-teorology. Lucas Bruce of Coxsackie who is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Music. Jes-sica Bucci of Saugerties who is pursuing a Bachelor of Sci-ence in Adolescence Educ.: Mathematics. Brody Daniels of Selkirk who is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Ado-lescence Ed: Social Studies.
Erin Dudzic of Saugerties who is pursuing a Bach-elor of Science in Early Chld/Childhood Ed (B-6). Cali Ely of Round Top who is pursu-ing a Bachelor of Science in Childhood Education (1-6). Ava Gockel of Prattsville who is pursuing a Bachelor of Sci-ence in Criminology. Alyssa Jackson of Cairo who is pur-suing a Bachelor of Science in Early Chld/Childhood Ed (B-6). Madison Legg of Tan-nersville who is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Early Chld/Childhood Ed (B-6). Chad McPeek of Saugerties who is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Adolescence Education: Earth Science. Gi-anna Pascuzzi of Coxsackie who is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Childhood Educa-tion (1-6). Amanda Sumner of Selkirk who is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Psy-chology/Criminal Justice. Lauryn Williams of Earlton who is pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art and Design. Spencer Yarwood of Selkirk who is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Adolescence Edu-cation: English.
College Corner
By Thomas ChristopherFor Columbia-Greene Media
It’s a new take on forestry for an historic institution. Founded 1900, the Yale For-est School was one of the first graduate-level programs of this subject in the United States, and is the oldest such program in the country to sur-vive to the present day. It sur-vives — flourishes — because, like our forests, the School has adapted and evolved.
With an initial emphasis on the fostering of woodland as a source of forest products, it educated the first four chiefs of the U.S. Forest Service. By 1969, as The Yale Forestry School, it was graduating its first female foresters, and in 1972 it became the Yale School of Forestry and Envi-ronmental Studies. In 2020, the transformation was com-pleted when it became the Yale School of the Environ-ment, though it still maintains a division that it has returned to calling The Forest School. Even the practice of growing trees has changed, however, for with its Urban Resources Initiative (founded in 1990), the School has encouraged its foresters to apply their skills to the city environment.
Focused on the New Haven
cityscape, the Urban Resourc-es Initiative (URI) grew out of social forestry, a movement within the forestry commu-nity to manage forests in such a way as to benefit of local in-habitants. So, for example, if the local community relies on wood as fuel for heating and cooking, social forestry would focus on producing that kind of resource. Planting for diver-sity on barren lands can en-hance the biological richness of a region, bringing benefits to the human population as well as wildlife, while planting trees as a carbon sink can fight climate change with all of its negative impacts on commu-nities.
Colleen Murphy-Dunning was teaching social forestry in Kenya in 1990 when Yale hired her to apply its principles to Yale’s home, New Haven. As the founding director of URI, she became intrigued with the recognition of the city as an ecosystem. Foresters have tra-ditionally practiced their craft in rural and wilderness areas, but urban areas also rely on trees for cleansing and cooling the air, to support wildlife, and to provide benefits, practical as well as aesthetic, for the in-habitants.
URI was begun with the
recognition that its programs could not be top-down, that it had to be a partnership at every level with New Haven residents. An advisory board was established to bring resi-dents and community groups into the planning process. For instance, in selecting where to plant trees, still one of URI’s principal programs, the locations were selected by residents working with the Yale students and foresters. Simple beautification might be the motive of a resident for
requesting a tree, or it might be a memorial for a loved one or a lasting celebration of some life event. Residents were in-volved in the planting – teen-agers were hired to assist with the planting, and those who requested trees were asked to take responsibility for the post planting watering.
Vandalism and neglect are typically banes of urban tree planting programs, but the community involvement URI has cultivated has minimized that. Survival rates for the URI
planted trees is 90 percent, so high that city authorities be-gan contracting with URI to do its planting. This necessitated an expansion of the crews, and a program to hire adults with obstacles to employment such as a record of incarceration was begun, with the idea that the program could become an entry point for them into the work force.
Recently, Murphy-Dunning informed me, URI planted its ten thousandth tree. It has also addressed one on of the grow-ing challenges facing many urban areas, the flash flooding promoted by the ever more violent storms caused by cli-mate change. In partnership with the City of New Haven, and EMERGE Connecticut, Inc. (a community organiza-tion established to assist for-merly incarcerated people), URI has worked to design and install over 70 bioswales that capture and infiltrate storm-water runoff. Collectively, these elements of green in-frastructure are expected to absorb and filter more than 5.6 million gallons annually, help-ing not only to reduce flooding but also to reduce pollutants washed into local waterways, improving water quality in New Haven’s rivers and Long
Island Sound.For me, as a horticulturist,
one of the most intriguing as-pects of the Urban Resources Initiative is the diversity of the interns it draws from the Uni-versity.
Be-a-Better-Gardener is a com-
munity service of Berkshire
Botanical Garden, located in
Stockbridge, Mass. Its mission, to
provide knowledge of gardening
and the environment through
a diverse range of classes and
programs, informs and inspires
thousands of students and visitors
each year. Thomas Christopher is
a volunteer at Berkshire Botani-
cal Garden and is the author or
co-author of more than a dozen
books, including Nature into Art
and The Gardens of Wave Hill
(Timber Press, 2019). He is the
2021 Garden Club of America’s
National Medalist for Literature,
a distinction reserved to recognize
those who have left a profound
and lasting impact on issues that
are most important to the GCA.
Christopher’s companion broad-
cast to this column, Growing
Greener, streams on WESUFM.
org, Pacifica Radio and NPR and
is available at berkshirebotanical.
org/growinggreener.
Practicing forestry, in urban areas
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE URBAN RESOURCES INITIATIVE
Colleen Murphy-Dunning (right), the founding director of the Urban Resources Initiative, helping to plant the group’s 10,000th tree, on May 13, in New Haven, Conn.
COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA • THE DAILY MAIL Wednesday, June 22, 2022 A7
ALBANY — The Palace Theatre’s Summer in the City Movie Series, presented by SEFCU will again offer eight free, family-friendly movies to children and families from neighborhoods around the Palace in downtown Albany, with targeted outreach to low-income and underserved families in the City. The movie series provides children with the opportunity to enjoy the excitement and beauty of the historic Palace Theatre, while offering fun, safe and posi-tive opportunities to become engaged in the arts. For this series, the theatre opens one hour prior to showtime for fun & educational activities.
Summer in the City is one of several free and low-cost arts and educational programs of-fered by the Palace that posi-tively impacts local children and families each year.
“We would like to once again thank SEFCU for their continued support of the Pal-ace Theatre and their dedi-cation to partnering with us year after year to ensure that Summer in the City is here to provide a free entertainment for our local kids and families. Since this program started in 2015, over 35,000 people have attended a free summer movie at the Palace. That’s 35,000 people out of the heat enjoying themselves with their friends and families in a theatre rich with local history. It’s inspiring to see the local organizations who dedicate their time and money to help us present this series. Sum-mer In The City would not be possible without the gener-ous support of SEFCU, Price Chopper/Market 32, National Grid, Whitney Young Health Center, Stewart’s Shops and all of the volunteers and com-munity partners who join us here each week. Thanks to their unwavering dedication
to the community, we are able to offer this and so many other programs as part of our Com-munity Engagement Initiative and truly make a difference in kids’ lives,” said Kevin John-son, Executive Director–Pal-ace Performing Arts Center
“SEFCU is honored to once again serve as the present-ing sponsor of the Palace Theatre’s Summer in the City family movie series. Bringing children and families together inside Albany’s historic down-town theatre to enjoy the mag-ic of the movies has become an annual summer tradition that we’ve been proud to sup-port since 2016,” said SEFCU President and CEO Michael Castellana. “This year, there is another fantastic lineup of family-friendly films guaran-teed to delight, entertain, and inspire our youth. I hope ev-eryone makes memories at the movies this summer.”
“As the Chairman of the Palace Theatre Board of Di-rectors, I am proud that we are once again able to pres-ent the Summer in the City free movie series. Since 2015, the Palace has provided a re-spite from the summer heat for families across the Capital Region with some great films, and it is one of the important ways we fulfill our mission to provide affordable entertain-ment for underserved families in our community. Thank you once again to all of this year’s series sponsors for their gen-erous support. Without them, Summer in the City would not be possible. So come on down to the Palace everyone, and enjoy some great family fun!,” said Stephen Baboulis, Chair-man, Board of Directors, Pal-ace Performing Arts Center.
“National Grid has a proud history of building relation-ships to provide opportunities to families in the neighbor-hoods where we all live, work
and play,” said National Grid Regional Executive Laurie Pol-tynski. “The Palace Theatre’s Summer in the City Series is a natural fit as we strengthen our connections with com-munities across the Capital Region. More important, it’s a fun way for families to spend time together and beat the heat.”
For each show, doors open at noon with activities provid-ed by SEFCU, Whitney Young Health Center and local part-nering organizations. Movies begin at 1 p.m. Free popcorn is provided to all children 12 and younger. For the Sum-mer in the City finale on Aug. 30, immediately following the screening of Encanto, the Palace will host a special Ice Cream Social, with activities, giveaways and Free Ice Cream courtesy of Stewart’s Shops. The Ice Cream Social is open to the public.
2022 SUMMER IN THE CITY SCHEDULE
For all events, doors open at noon for activities; movies begin at 1 p.m.
July 12 Raya and the Last Dragon
July 19 Sing 2July 26 Ron’s Gone WrongAug. 2 Clifford The Big Red
DogAug. 9 Trolls World TourAug. 16 Space Jam: A New
LegacyAug. 23 LucaAug. 30 EncantoFree tickets are available
in advance at the Palace The-atre Box Office at 19 Clinton Ave. during regular business hours or reserved online at https://bit.ly/SITCPal. Indi-vidual Groups, Day Care, and Summer Camps looking to reserve a block of tickets can call 518-465-3335 ext. 111 or email [email protected]. For more information, call 518.465.4663 or visit www.palacealbany.org.
Palace Theatre announces free summer movie series for
children and familiesALBANY — New York State
Office of General Services (OGS) Commissioner Jeanette Moy announced the popular and free summer tours of the Empire State Plaza and out-door sculptures have returned. Beginning on June 22, and new this year, “Ride the Plaza” tours that will showcase the Empire State Plaza from the comfort of a specially wrapped air-con-ditioned and accessible CDTA trolley.
“The Capitol and Empire State Plaza are home to fas-cinating history, impressive architecture, and world-class artwork,” Commissioner Moy said, “Our tours are a great way to spend some time this sum-mer, and we encourage every-one to take advantage of these free activities. Thanks to our partner CDTA, the trolley tours will help make the Plaza more accessible to visitors.”
The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza is at the center of one of the most spectacular capitals in the world: a 98 ½-acre city-within-a-city that includes one of the greatest public collections of modern art in the country, the State Museum, and a unique performing arts center, The Egg.
“Ride the Plaza!” – Trolley Tour
Visitors can relax and enjoy learning about local land-marks, architecture, art, me-morials, and history. In addi-tion, Wednesdays on the Plaza also include a farmers market, food trucks, and live music. The trolley is fully accessible and can accommodate up to 36 passengers, and reservations are recommended. Riders will be required to wear masks.
Where:Board the trolley on Madison Avenue, near the NYS WWII Memorial. The trolley will return to the same location at the end of the tour.
When:Two tours on Wednesdays, June 22 through August 31 at 12:45 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. Tours are 45 minutes long.
Reservations: Seating is limited, so reservations are en-couraged and can be made at empirestateplaza.ny.gov.
“We are excited to partner with OGS and bring this unique opportunity to the Capital Re-gion,” said CDTA CEO Carm Basile. “Moving people and connecting them to what mat-ters in their life is at the core of what CDTA does. We are look-ing forward to welcoming the community on board and giv-ing them a look at all of the his-tory and beauty the Capital city has to offer.”
Empire State Plaza ToursOn this outdoor walking
tour, discover this world-class complex. Learn how govern-ment and culture are housed within the modern architec-ture of the Empire State Plaza, including the Plaza’s memori-als, visit inside The Egg, and receive an overview of the Gov-ernor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collec-tion.
Where: Tours begin on the Plaza near the base of The Egg.
When:Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, July 1- August 30 at 12:45 p.m. Tours are 45 minutes.
Reservations: No reserva-tions are needed for this tour. However, groups of 10 or more should call (518) 474-2418.
“Spotlight on Art” Themed Tours of the Empire State Plaza Art Collection
Art historians have called the collection “the greatest collec-tion of modern American art in any single public site that is not a museum.” The tour will focus on the history of the collection, as well as highlights of the 92 works of art on permanent dis-play throughout the Plaza’s in-door concourse level. Weather permitting, tours will also in-clude pieces located outdoors.
Where: Corning Tower Se-curity Desk, concourse level
When: Last Monday of the month, June 27 through August 29 at 11 a.m. Tours are 45 min-utes.
Reservations: Space is
limited, and reservations are recommended but not re-quired and can be made online at empirestateplaza.ny.gov. Call (518) 474-2418 for groups of 10 or more. Online registra-tion ends one hour before tour time. Walk-ups are permitted.
Tour the New York State Capitol
Sitting atop Albany’s State Street hill, the New York State Capitol has served as the seat of government for New York since the 1880s. The building is a marvel of late 19th century architectural grandeur, built by hand of solid masonry over a period of 32 years. Highlights of the 45-minute tours can in-clude the legislative chambers, Hall of Governors, Governor’s Reception Room, Hall of New York, historic staircases, and carvings.
Where:State Street Lobby visitor information desk
When:Monday through Fri-day at 10 a.m., noon, and 2 p.m.
Reservations:Space is lim-ited, and reservations are rec-ommended but not required and can be made online at empirestateplaza.ny.gov. Call (518) 474-2418 for groups of 10 or more. Online registra-tion ends one hour before tour time. Walk-ups are permitted.
Security: Visitors to the Capi-tol are required to pass through metal detectors and have bags scanned through an x-ray ma-chine. Personal belongings such as backpacks and large bags should be left behind. Sharp objects, such as pocket knives, nail clippers, weapons, and nuisance devices such as whistles and noisemakers are not allowed into the building.
COVID-19 Access and Pro-cedures: Access to the New York State Capitol and Legisla-tive Office Building (LOB) is limited to visitors who are fully vaccinated or visitors who pro-vide proof of a negative Covid test within the past 48 hours. Additional details https://em-pirestateplaza.ny.gov/covid-19-access-and-procedures.
OGS announces free summer tours at the Empire
State Plaza and Capitol
LENOX, Mass. — A limited amount of slots are open for Riotous Youth, Shakespeare & Company’s summer the-ater program for children and teenagers, slated to begin July 5.
These one-, two-, and three-week summer theater programs, tailored to differ-ent age groups, introduce students ages six to 17 to Shakespeare’s language, sto-ries, characters, and themes, using imaginative and playful methods.
Financial aid is avail-able; visit shakespeare.org to learn more, apply, and access necessary program forms. To ensure the health of our Shakespeare & Com-pany community, all Riot-ous Youth participants who are vaccine eligible must
be vaccinated against CO-VID-19.
For more information, contact Education Programs Administrator Megan Mar-chione at [email protected] or (413) 637-1199, ext. 172.
Available sessions for the 2022 Season include:
One-week Sessions: $425Ages 6 – 12In the Wild & Whispering
Woods: a fast-paced, one-week exploration of Shake-speare’s characters as they encounter all manner of un-expected hijinks, love, and mysterious creatures in the woods, using text from As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Winter’s Tale.
July 25 – 29: ages 6-8Two-week Sessions: $800*
Ages 7 – 15These programs are de-
signed to incorporate voice, movement, and acting to allow students to explore Shakespeare’s text emotion-ally, physically, and intel-lectually. Participants then create a performance piece based on their experience of the play, to share with audi-ences on the final day of the session.
July 5 – 15: Much Ado About Nothing
Session A: ages 7-9Session B: ages 10-12Session C: ages 13-15July 18 – 29: MacbethSession D: ages 7-9Session E: ages 10-12Session F: ages 13-15July 5 – 15 tuition is re-
duced to $725; no class on Monday, July 4.
Limited spots open for Riotous Youth, Shakespeare & Company’s
Summer Theater program
WASHINGTON — The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), a 15-member volunteer advisory board appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture, considers public comments and makes recommendations on the National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances; and other topics involved in or-ganic agriculture.
USDA seeks nominations of a qualified individual for one open seat: an in-dividual with expertise in environmental protection or resource conservation. Each NOSB member serves a five-year term. The current opening is for a position be-ginning January 2023.
Working to include voices from historically under-served communities in-volved in organic agriculture is important to the USDA Ag-ricultural Marketing Service and National Organic Pro-gram. We encourage applica-tions from traditionally un-derrepresented individuals,
organizations, and busi-nesses to reflect the diversity of the industry. This includes qualified individuals regard-less of race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic pro-tected by law.
Qualified candidates may also apply to be considered for future unexpected vacan-cies in any of the seven posi-tions.
For more information about the positions, member time commitment and work-load, please visit the NOSB Nominations page. To learn more about the NOSB struc-ture and member roles, view:
Who has a seat at the NOSB table?
Interviews with former NOSB members
Steve Ela - Organic Pro-ducer | January 2017 – Janu-ary 2022
Emily Oakley - Organic Producer | January 2016
- January 2021
Scott Rice - USDA Certi-
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COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIAA8 Wednesday, June 22, 2022
MECHANICVILLE — New York State Senator Daphne Jordan (R,C,I-Halfmoon) an-nounced that she success-fully named DeCrescente Distributing Company to the New York State Historic Busi-ness Preservation Registry. The prestigious recognition reflects the DeCrescente Dis-tributing Company’s ongoing commitment and countless contributions to the commu-nity and to New York State.
Senator Jordan received a tour of the warehouse with newly expanded space, as well as a tour of the com-pany’s marketing and sales center that includes a well-ness center staffed by a Com-munity Care Center, gym, and Viall Avenue Pub. Senator Jor-dan presented DeCrescente Distributing Company a New York State Senate Proclama-tion on being named to the registry and presented the New York State Historic Busi-ness Preservation Registry Award.
Chapter 241 of the Laws of 2020 established the Historic Business Preservation Reg-istry in the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation for businesses that have been in operation for at least 50 years, have contributed to their communities’ history, and helped shape the heritage and identity of the communi-ties they serve. The registry allows the state to recognize and honor historic businesses while providing educational and promotional assistance to ensure their continued vi-ability and success and lists 100 historic businesses from across the state. DeCrescente Distributing Company’s
listing on the New York State Historic Business Preserva-tion Registry is available via: https://parks.ny.gov/histor-ic-preservation/business-reqistry/.
“Proud, successful, im-pactful, multi-generational businesses like DeCrescente Distributing Company are in-credible assets for our econ-omy, local communities, and the entire state. It’s fantastic to honor and recognize such a wonderful, community-centric, and family-owned business such as DeCrescente Distributing Company that’s done so much for its employ-ees, our Capital Region, and countless local charitable causes. I congratulate De-Crescente Distributing Com-pany Vice President, Carmine DeCrescente III, and the en-tire DeCrescente Family, on being named to the New York State Historic Business Pres-ervation Registry. I also thank State Parks Commissioner Er-ik Kulleseid and the New York State Office of Parks, Recre-ation and Historic Preserva-tion for their strong support of this important program,” Senator Jordan said.
“We are grateful for Sena-tor Jordan having successfully nominated our family busi-ness to the New York State Historic Business Preserva-tion Registry. DeCrescente Distributing Company re-mains focused on deliver-ing excellence and strongly centered on our mission of commitment to customers, suppliers, employees, and community involvement, as well as responsibility,” said Carmine DeCrescente III, Vice President, DeCrescente Distributing Company.
Started in 1948 by Angelo DeCrescente with one truck, three employees, and a small garage, DeCrescente Distrib-uting Company is a highly successful, deeply respected, and beloved fourth-genera-tion family-owned business. DeCrescente Distributing Company is a genuine Ameri-can success story. The Al-bany Business Review named DeCrescente Distributing Company one of its “2021 Achievers,” a special recog-nition honoring standout
companies and people who are making a difference in the Capital Region’s community and beyond.
Some of the many hall-marks of DeCrescente Dis-tributing Company include $180 million in sales in 2016, 400 employees, approxi-mately 130 of which have been on staff for more than 10 years, testifying to the company’s proven record of accomplishment and being a fantastic workplace. DeCres-cente Distributing Company
is the Capital Region’s largest beer, wine, soda, and water distributor, achieving nearly 11 million cases of beverages sold annually, including beer, hard seltzer, malt beverages, and nonalcoholic drinks, earning an impressive 65 per-cent of the market share in Albany County. DeCrescente Distributing Company is moving forward with a $13.5 million warehouse expan-sion to accommodate growth and improve efficiency which will increase the size of its North Main Street facilities to 350,000 square feet.
Giving back to the com-munity and making a posi-tive difference for others have always been top priorities for DeCrescente Distributing Company, which serves as the lead organizer of the suc-cessful Toys for Toga Annual Holiday Toy and Fundraising Drive. Toys for Toga is chari-table a partnership between DeCrescente Distributing Company and other local businesses that raise money and collect toys for distribu-tion to the Franklin Commu-nity Center, CAPTAIN Youth and Family Services, and the Mechanicville Area Commu-nity Services Center in time for the holidays. DeCrescente Distributing Company leads the important local charitable effort that, now in its ninth year, successfully collected more than 3,000 toys and raised almost $7,000 for area children this holiday season. Toys for Toga is just one of many local charitable activi-ties DeCrescente Distributing Company has championed.
DeCrescente Distribut-ing Company generously supports numerous other
charitable organizations and endeavors including the American Cancer Society; Al-zheimer’s Association; David Ortiz Children’s Fund; Dou-ble H Ranch; Mechanicville Area Community Services Center; Saratoga Hospital; NYS Troopers PBA Signal 30 Benefit Fund; Albany Med, Ellis Medicine; CAPTAIN Community Health Services, and many more charitable endeavors. DeCrescente Dis-tributing Company also offers events like a free, private fam-ily night at the Great Escape and Children’s Holiday Party, and encourages participation in its other charitable activi-ties, such as the Tour De Cure and Mechanicville Breast Cancer Awareness Walk.
DeCrescente Distribut-ing Company’s numerous awards, accolades, and public recognitions include Capital District’s Best Places to Work 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020; Albany Business Re-view’s Family-Owned Busi-ness of the Year 2021; Healthi-est Employers Award 2019, 2020, 2021; TANY Award 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021; Molson Coors “Legend” Award 2020, presented to C.J. DeCres-cente; Best Places to Work in New York 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015; Craft Distributor of the Year 2013; Craft Beer Distributor Achievement Award 2012; Heineken Red Star Award 2005, 2006; Dia-geo Golden Bar Award 2005; Miller Legend and High Life Achievement Award 2002, 2005; Wholesaler of the Year Award 2003, Beverage World Magazine, and Coors Found-ers 1997-2000, respectively.
Senator Daphne Jordan successfully names DeCrescente Distributing Company to the New York
State Historic Business Preservation Registry
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Senator Jordan is pictured, center, with DeCrescente Distributing Company Chief Financial Officer Ed Keis, left, and DeCrescente Distributing Company Vice President Carmine DeCrescente III, right.
WASHINGTON — The National Fire Protection As-sociation® (NFPA®) has an-nounced “Fire Won’t Wait. Plan Your Escape” as the theme for Fire Prevention Week, Oct. 9 through Oct. 15, reinforcing the critical impor-tance of developing a home escape plan with all members of the household and practic-ing it regularly. In addition, this October represents the 100th anniversary of Fire Pre-vention Week, the nation’s longest-running public health observance on record.
“This year’s Fire Prevention Week campaign capitalizes on its milestone anniversary, celebrating all we’ve accom-plished in reducing the pub-lic’s risk to fire over the past hundred years,” said Lorraine Carli, vice president of the NFPA Outreach and Advocacy division. “At the same time, the theme, ‘Fire Won’t Wait. Plan Your Escape,’ addresses challenges that remain.”
According to NFPA data, home — the place people feel safest from fire — is actu-ally where they are at greatest risk, with three-quarters (74 percent) of all U.S. fire deaths occurring in homes. When a home fire does occur, it’s more
likely to be serious; people are more likely to die in a home fire today than they were in 1980.
“Today’s homes burn faster and hotter than they used to, minimizing the amount of time they have to escape safely,” said Carli. “In a typi-cal home fire, you may have as little as two minutes to get out from the time the smoke alarms sounds.”
The Fire Prevention Week 2022 theme, “Fire Won’t Wait. Plan Your Escape,” promotes potentially life-saving mes-sages that can mean the differ-ence between life and death in a fire. Developing a home es-cape plan with all members of the household and practicing it regularly ensures that every-one knows what to do when the smoke alarm sounds and uses that time wisely.
Following are key mes-sages behind this year’s “Fire Won’t Wait. Plan Your Escape” theme:
Make sure your home es-cape plan meets the needs of all your family members, in-cluding those with sensory or physical disabilities.
Smoke alarms should be installed inside every sleeping room, outside each separate
sleeping area, and on every level of your home. Smoke alarms should be intercon-nected so when one sounds, they all sound.
Know at least two ways out of every room, if possible. Make sure all doors and win-dows open easily.
Have an outside meeting place a safe distance from your home where everyone should meet.
Practice your home fire drill at least twice a year with everyone in the household, including guests. Practice at least once during the day and at night.
As the biggest annual cam-paign at NFPA, Fire Preven-tion Week works to educate people about the leading risks to home fires and ways they can better protect themselves and their loved ones. Local fire departments play a key role in bringing Fire Prevention Week to life in their communities each year and spreading basic but critical fire safety mes-sages.
To learn more about Fire Prevention Week, its 100th anniversary, and this year’s theme, “Fire Won’t Wait. Plan Your Escape,” visit www.nfpa.org/fpw.
NFPA announces ‘Fire Won’t Wait, Plan Your Escape’ as theme for Fire Prevention Week Oct. 9-15
COXSACKIE — The Na-tional Bank of Coxsackie announced today that Angela (Fereshteh) Osier joined National Bank of Coxsackie as its newest Business Development Officer in late April of this year.
Osier comes to National Bank of Coxsackie with over 10 years of experience in the Banking Industry. She joins NBC from Berk-shire Bank, where she was a Branch Manager in the Malta area. Her experience prior to Berkshire Bank includes positions at Key Bank and Citizens Bank.
“I am excited to join the National Bank of Cox-sackie’s Business Devel-opment team” said Osier, “I’m looking forward to developing client relation-ships and supporting their growth in the Capital Re-gion.”
National Bank of Cox-sackie CEO John A. Balli is excited to add more talent to the team as well, saying, “The potential for growth is outstanding. I look forward to working with such a strong team to help serve the Capital Region’s
financial needs.”Since 1852, The National
Bank of Coxsackie has been the reliable hometown bank of choice for thou-sands of clients. With eight locations ranging from Coxsackie to Glenmont,
they are proud to service the Capital Region. They remain committed to pro-viding clients with the same products and ser-vices as the larger banks, while delivering them with a neighborly touch.
National Bank of Coxsackie announces new business
development officer
Angela (Fereshteh) Osier
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COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA Wednesday, June 22, 2022 A9
By Charlene MarchandFor Columbia-Greene Media
It’s a beautiful, warm, and sunny day in the month of June, and those small spring/summer savages are out in force. Gnats are cre-ating small funnel clouds, engorged ticks are falling off our feline and canine friends, and as a footnote, I killed my first 2022 mosqui-to yesterday.
Annual reminders about the importance — no, the necessity of protecting our companion animals from these onslaughts, cannot appear in print frequently enough. Here’s ours:
Heartworm protection: All dogs should be on heart-worm preventative. Dog owners should administer medication throughout the year. If meds have ceased after the onset of winter and cold temperatures, a blood test must be taken before you can continue again. There are a number of effec-tive products on the market, and your decision should be made jointly with your vet-erinarian.
Once contracted, the treatment for heartworm, in some animals, may be
life-threatening. Don’t for-get that we are endemic in this part of the country for heartworm.
Ticks and fleas: There’s no question that I sound like a broken record when it comes to external parasite control. It’s a must. It’s im-perative. It’s like drinking eight glasses of water per day.
Your cats and dogs can breeze through the warm season definitely flea-free, and come pretty close where ticks are concerned. I think it’s safe to say that the prod-uct of choice, at this time, should be discussed with your veterinarian.
For frequently bathed dogs who live on properties graced by ponds, or dogs who live outside, the effi-cacy of certain products can remain unaffected.
K-9 Advantix. It is rapidly gaining a faithful following. It includes the ability to re-pel mosquitoes in its reper-toire. Caution must be used with this highly effective product, because its chemi-cal properties are toxic to cats.
Many clients love the Seresto collar and often use
them with a systemic like Simparica Trio, Credelio, Nexguard. Etc. Again, a vet-erinarian discussion. I go through tons of “Off Smooth and Dri” on my GSD’s daily, in addition to Advantix.
Lyme disease has put Co-lumbia County on the map for having the highest num-ber of diagnosed human cases in the country. Our ca-nine companions also share in this dubious, unfortunate honor. Anaplasmosis and Ehrlichiosis are frequently diagnosed vector diseases.
Don’t forget your cats when discussing the prob-lem of external parasite protection. Consult your veterinarian about the use of topicals mentioned, or in-gested meds like Revolution and Sentinel. Bear in mind that repellent products, like Adams Flea and Tick Repellent or Cutter’s Out-doorsman spray, enhance the effectiveness of other non-repellent topicals. The Cutter Outdoorsman Insect Repellent Lotion is an excel-lent choice to keep biting flies off of the ears of ca-nines, felines, and equines!
Horse protection: Horses are certainly not last nor
least. The Freedom and EQUI-Spot-On products have a reasonable degree of efficacy. My Repel X usage was significantly decreased with regular Spot-On appli-cation when my horses were alive. Our equine friends are not exempt from the com-plications of Lyme disease, nor the discomfort of biting flies, gnats, and mosquitoes.
Feel free to call us with any questions at 518-828-6044 or visit www.cghs.org. Our 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 for cats are $86 male or female, including a rabies vaccination and a 5-in-1 fe-line distemper combination vaccination. Nail clipping services are available every Saturday from 10-11 a.m. at the shelter for a donation of $10 for cats and $15 for dogs (currently prepaid only).
Charlene Marchand is the
Chairperson of the Columbia-
Greene Humane Society/SPCA
Board of Directors. She may be
contacted at cghsaaron@gmail.
com.
Annual reminders about the necessity of protecting our companion animals
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Jack and Jassmine are Jack Russell Terrier mixes, pictured with CGHS soft Adoption Counselor Kylie Hulbert. Jack is 12 years old and Jassmine is about 8 years old. They were unfortunately surrendered to us due to their previous owners getting a divorce. These two are very bonded and must be adopted out together into a pet-free, child-free home. They are the sweetest older dogs and just want to be in the company of their favorite human.
SPENCERTOWN — Spen-certown Academy Arts Center will host two benefit concerts for Kids Need Music, at 3 p.m. June 25 and the other at 2 p.m. June 26 at the Academy, 790 Route 203, Spencertown. “A Kaleidoscope of Hope” will feature pianist Gili Melamed-Lev and violinist Emmanuel Vukovich performing pieces by Piazzolla, Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Paganini, and Sarasate. All proceeds will be used to purchase band in-struments to be donated to the Hudson City School District. Tickets ($30 general admis-sion) may be purchased in advance via www.spencer-townacademy.org and will be available at the door pending availability.
“Kids Need Music ensures that every child that wishes to participate in the music program in the Hudson City School district is able to do so by repairing old or purchas-ing new instruments,” says Kids Need Music President Craig Bender. “Hundreds of students have benefited from this program. Please note that if you can’t attend the concert, but would still like to support the project, donations are welcome through our website: www.KidsNeedMusic.org.”
Pianist Gili Melamed-Lev is recognized for her artistic vision, unique artistry, and innovative programming. She enjoys a career as a solo-ist, chamber musician, and collaborative artist. She is the co-founder and artistic director for Jazz and Classics for Change (www.jazzand-classicsforchange.org) and a member of the Lev-Evans duo. Having performed through-out the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Israel, she is a passionate advocate of music education giving master classes at the Schenectady Community Col-lege School of Music, Williams College, Bard College, and her private studio.
Violinist Emmanuel Vukov-ich is emerging internationally as a violinist of technical vir-tuosity, musical integrity, and artistic maturity performing across North and South Amer-ica, Europe, and Australia. He was the grand-prize winner of
the Fischoff National Cham-ber Music Competition and recipient of the inaugural Schulich Golden Violin Award. As a three-time recipient of The Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank, he currently plays on a 1753 Johannes Baptiste Guadagnini violin.
The Academy has installed multiple Blueair HealthPro-tect 7470 air purifiers and lim-ited seating in its auditorium. Academy leadership is closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation in Columbia County, as well as recommendations from health authorities, and will adjust protocols as neces-sary.
This program is made pos-sible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the
support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
This year marks the 50th an-niversary of the Spencertown Academy arts organization, and the 175th year since the Academy was built as a school in 1847. Now an all-volunteer organization, it offers a varied schedule of concerts, lectures, classes, and gallery shows. Its signature events—Hid-den Gardens, Revels, and the Festival of Books—are yearly highlights. This summer, the anniversaries of the build-ing and the organization will be celebrated together with a day-long community festival on July 9.
For information, contact [email protected].
Kids Need Music benefit concerts at Spencertown Academy
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P O U G H K E E P S I E — Partners of McCabe and Mack LLP, based in Pough-keepsie, announced that Tinamarie Fisco, a resident of Saugerties, has joined the firm as an associate at-torney.
The graduate of SUNY Ulster (Class of 2011) and Long Island University Post (Class of 2013: Magna Cum Laude, Alpha Phi Sigma - National Crimi-nal Justice Honor Society) earned a Juris Doctorate degree from Albany Law School (Class of 2017: with Honors). The attorney’s concentration at Albany Law was Family and Elder Law, and served in roles such as Director of Pro Bo-no Society’s Albany County Family Court Help Desk, Co-Director of Pro Bono Society’s Special Needs Law Day, and Executive Member of Pro Bono Soci-ety’s Executive Committee.
Fisco was admitted to the New York State Bar in 2018.
The attorney’s areas of practice at McCabe and Mack LLP will be Com-mercial Litigation, Estate Planning and Trust and Estate Administration. Her commercial litiga-tion services will include handling of contract dis-putes and commercial collection matters, includ-ing in disputes involving employment agreements, p r o f e s s i o n a l s e r v i c e s agreements, shareholder agreements, commercial lending, real estate agree-ments, secured transac-tions, promissory notes, and personal guarantees. Fisco will provide services including the develop-ment of Estate Plans for individuals and the prep-aration of estate planning documents, including Wills, Revocable and Irre-vocable Trusts, advanced directives such as health care proxies and powers of attorney. In addition, Fisco will provide services
such as administration of estates and probate of Wills, Article 17-A guard-ianships and Medicaid ap-plications. Said Fisco, “It is a privilege to join such a highly respected, intel-ligent, insightful group of colleagues, and work to support the commercial litigation and estate plan-ning needs of businesses and individuals through-out the Hudson Valley re-gion and beyond.”
Kimberly Hunt Lee, part-ner at McCabe and Mack
LLP, added, “We are excit-
ed to welcome Tinamarie
Fisco to our firm. Her legal
expertise will undoubtedly
make a meaningful impact
on the lives of the clients
who have the opportunity
to work with her.”
Fisco is a member of the
New York State Bar Associ-
ation, Dutchess County Bar
Association, Ulster County
Bar Association, and the
Mid-Hudson Women’s Bar
Association.
McCabe and Mack announces expansion of team with longtime
Hudson Valley local Tinamarie Fisco
Tinamarie Fisco
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Only those 21 and older may obtain a license for that kind of weaponry. The licensing pro-cess will be about the same as the current licensing process for handguns, run by county sheriff’s offices and county court judges.
Under another part of the package, gun dealers will be held to stricter security and safety standards. Firearms must be locked in a safe at the end of every workday, ammunition must be stored separately and away from customers, the shop must have a functioning secu-rity alarm system with 24-hour, third-party monitoring and video cameras must record the points of sale and all entrances and exits. Video from the se-curity cameras must be main-tained for two years.
Gun dealers must further restrict people younger than 18 from accessing the areas of their shop where firearms, rifles, shotguns or ammo are sold or stored, unless the minor is with a parent or guardian. Gun shop staff and owners will be required to provide annual training on gun laws, processes for documenting gun sales and transfers and how to identify fraudulent, suspicious or po-tentially dangerous customers and report them. Gun store em-ployees must also be at least 21 years old.
Another law in the package makes it illegal to buy or sell body armor to most New York-ers, excepting law enforcement officers. The Department of State is tasked with consulting other departments in the state government and developing a list of other professions that may require use of body armor. Additionally, it is now illegal to buy or sell body armor online or over the phone — all sales must be done in person.
The Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act, New York’s gun control measure passed in 2013, specified that ammunition magazines may hold no more than 10 rounds at a time. However, magazines
manufactured before 1994 or sold before the SAFE Act’s en-actment were grandfathered in and allowed. That is no longer the case, and those magazines must be sold or turned over to law enforcement.
The definition of a firearm has been expanded to include any weapon not already defined in state law that is designed or may be converted to expel a projectile through the use of an explosive. State law before this amendment specified firearms as pistols, rifles, shotguns or revolvers, and did not include weapons of a novel design not commonly seen.
The state’s red-flag laws, which allow district attorneys, law enforcement, school of-ficials, roommates or fam-ily members to file Emergency Risk Protection Orders against someone they feel is a danger to themselves or others, have also been expanded. If accepted, the individual subject to the protection order will be unable to purchase a weapon and will have any firearms registered to them confiscated. An ERPO can last at most one year.
Now, health care profession-als who have treated a patient within the last six months can petition for an ERPO, and judg-es will be required to pay special attention to any petitions for an ERPO submitted by a mental health care professional.
There are two new crimes on the books, for making a threat of mass harm, and aggravated making a threat of mass harm. Someone can be charged for making a threat of mass harm when they make a threat of in-flicting serious injury or death upon a school, place of worship, business, government building or other place of assembly, and the recipients have a reasonable fear for their safety as a result. Causing a lockdown or evacua-tion at any of those spaces will also lead to a charge of making a threat of mass harm. This is a class B misdemeanor.
Aggravated making a threat of mass harm occurs when someone makes a threat of harm toward a public space and takes steps to make that threat a reality. This is a class A misde-meanor.
Social media companies that operate in New York will now be required to develop policies to tackle hateful content on their sites and maintain reporting systems for such content. The new legislation also creates a task force on social media and violent extremism in the attor-ney general’s office to look into the role social media plays in promoting or enabling domes-tic terrorism.
The new gun laws also re-quest that the state’s Division of Criminal Justice Services look into microstamping, a technol-ogy that would imprint a unique identifying mark onto every cartridge case expelled from a fired pistol. The technology is only applied to semiautomatic handguns, but is not available on the commercial gun market as gun manufacturers argue it is technologically improbable. This legislation requires that the division investigate whether microstamps are technologi-cally viable. In the event the di-vision determines microstamps are viable, every new semiau-tomatic handgun sold in New York will be required to have the technology built in.
California passed a similar law in 2007, and the bill has been introduced in New York’s state Legislature every year since 2009. In California, how-ever, no weapons are sold with microstamp technology — the gun manufacturing companies pulled all eligible handguns from the California market rather than comply with the law.
Law enforcement agencies will now be required to report more information to the state and federal gun databases in a more timely manner. Agen-cies are now required to report seized and recovered guns to the criminal gun clearinghouse, participate in the collective data sharing agreement run by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and reg-ister the make, model, caliber and serial number of all guns they take off the street into the national crime information center.
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is to walk around on something smooth. There’s no cracks or holes in the ground and it’s extra wide so people can walk past each other with their dogs on leashes.”
With the paving work in the park now completed, Watts is hoping to secure grant fund-ing through the State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation’s Grant Program to finance new features for the park.
The town hopes to build new inclusive ADA (Ameri-cans with Disabilities Act) play equipment and expand the park’s playground area, a fit-ness loop with multiple senior fitness equipment stations
and two new pavilion shade structures within the park.
“I think everything we did with the town park is going to really do good for getting a grant for the town for getting new playground equipment and different infrastructure things,” Watts said. “We can get a lot more cosmetic stuff done.”
The town has launched a letter-writing campaign for Cairo residents to express their support for additional park upgrades.
“We’ve gotten a lot of letters of support,” Watts said. “We’ll know about that one around December.”
Watts said that the next ma-jor priority for the town is con-verting the former Dojo Mar-tial Arts and Fitness Academy on Route 32 into a new town community center that can
be used by the town’s senior population.
The town purchased the property in November with plans to convert the space into a senior center with the rear of the facility set to host the town’s ambulance service.
The town has hired the Bar-ton & Loguidice engineering consulting firm in Albany to apply for grants for the project but Watts said the town will move forward with the project while they wait for potential state funding.
Watts said a planned town board workshop meeting and library board meeting that were slated for June 15 have been postponed due to sched-uling conflicts. Watts said the meeting would be rescheduled in the next several days.
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With paving work completed in Angelo Canna Town Park in Cairo, the town is looking to secure funding for additional upgrades to the park.
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Philip Jankowski The Dallas Morning News
AUSTIN, Texas -- Calling the police response to the Uvalde school shooting an “abject failure,” Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw gave a detailed report to the Texas Senate Tuesday, corroborating reports indicat-ing that numerous police were inside the school within min-utes of the first 911 calls.
Law enforcement authori-ties had enough officers on the scene of the massacre to have stopped the gunman three min-utes after he entered the build-ing, McCraw testified about the attack that left 19 children and two teachers dead.
McCraw’s testimony added withering evidence to the failed response of local police to the shooting that police experts and lawmakers have characterized as antithetical to how police
should respond to an active shooter situation.
Attention continued to be focused on Uvalde Indepen-dent School District Chief Pete Arredondo, who kept police at bay for more than 70 minutes while the 18-year-old shooter remained barricaded in a class-room with children, many of whom were injured.
A detailed timeline showed the rapid arrival of police on the scene, including that many officers arrived armed with semi-automatic rifles and that some came equipped with bul-letproof shields. Transcripts showed Arredondo continued to request more armed officers and mischaracterized the kind of weapons at hand as he held officers back.
And while officers were in the school, the shooter continued to fire rounds inside the class-room at least three times.
“One hour, 14 minutes and 8 seconds. You know, it’s not just a lifetime. It’s many lifetimes. It’s just we can’t have that,” Mc-Craw said.
McCraw said the doors to the pair of classrooms where the students and teachers were killed were unlocked but never checked by police as Arredondo continued to frantically search for a skeleton key to a door that could have been opened at any time, had anyone tried it.
“The fact that the facts and mistakes were made,” McCraw said. “It should have never hap-pened that way. ... It set our pro-fession back a decade is what it did.”
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick con-vened the Senate Special Com-mittee to Protect All Texans in response to Gov. Greg Abbott’s call for the Legislature to inves-tigate the shooting. Tuesday’s meeting was the first day of a
two-day hearing, and its chair, Sen. Robert Nichols, said tes-timony could extend to mid-night.
The hearing opened with McCraw, who continued to answer questions from law-makers as of 11:15 a.m. Nichols said Tuesday’s hearings would cover three subject areas: police training, school safety and so-cial media.
“We do know this through compelling evidence that the law enforcement response to the attack at Robb Elementary was an abject failure and an-tithetical to everything we’ve learned over the last two de-cades,” McCraw said.
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TAMPA — Tampa Bay Coach Jon Cooper just wanted to see Colorado on its heels, desperately chasing the game, as the Lightning had in the first two contests of these Stanley Cup finals. In Monday night’s Game 3, back home in a buzz-ing Amalie Arena, Cooper got his wish - and it changed the complexion of the series.
The Lightning flipped the script in a dominant 6-2 win, punishing a Colorado squad that was coming off a near-perfect 7-0 victory in Game 2. The Avalanche still holds a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series, but the two-time de-fending champion seized the momentum heading into Wednesday’s Game 4 on its home ice.
“Tonight was a full team effort,” said Lightning center Anthony Cirelli, whose first-period goal got the hosts on
the board. “Every line con-tributed in some way. . . . No one cares who is scoring the goals; we just go out there and
everyone is trying to do their job.”
The Lightning was expected to be the more desperate team
- a loss would have left it on the brink of a sweep. But it ral-lied despite an early stumble, boosted by an extended replay
review - and it made Tampa Bay the first team to win a Stanley Cup finals game after losing by at least seven goals in the previous game in more than 100 years (1919).
“This was pretty much a must-win game for us, and we played like it,” Lightning cap-tain Steven Stamkos said.
The night wasn’t all good news for the Lightning. Star Nikita Kucherov was in-jured late after a crosscheck by Colorado defenseman Devon Toews and did not re-turn. Cooper did not have an update on his status after the game. Defenseman Victor Hedman called the play that sent Kucherov to the dressing room “dangerous.”
The Avalanche, the faster team in the first two games,
Lightning routs Avalanche, gets back in Stanley Cup finals
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Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy (88) celebrates with defenseman Victor Hedman (77) after the Lightning defeated the Colorado Avalanche in game three of the 2022 Stanley Cup Final at Amalie Arena on Monday.
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Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy (88) defends the net against Colorado Avalanche left wing Gabriel Landeskog (92) during the first period in game three of the 2022 Stanley Cup Final at Amalie Arena on Monday.
Stefan BondyNew York Daily News
The Knicks and Jaden Ivey are circling each other ahead of the draft.
As the top guard in his class, Ivey will assuredly be off the board if the Knicks stay with their 11th pick on Thursday. But as rumors circulate about Leon Rose’s desire to trade up, Ivey casually listed the Knicks as an option when asked
about teams that caught his eye at the top of the lottery.
“Could be situations where I land in New York,” Ivey said Monday.
It’s a workable scenario for the Knicks but the price will be high. The other side of this story is Ivey reportedly having some trepidation about join-ing the Kings, who own the fourth pick and are shopping it as a chance to land Ivey.
On Monday, Ivey did little to dispel those rumors about the Kings, saying he’s had no con-tact with the organization.
“If I got drafted there, it wouldn’t be the worst op-tion,” Ivey said. “I can’t pick -- I’m not the GM who picks the guys. So I’m just trying to en-joy this process and whatever happens on draft night, we’re going to stick with it.”
Still, Ivey denied he’s
freezing out the Kings, who, perhaps not coincidentally, are the NBA’s most bungled franchise.
“It’s not a conscious deci-sion,” he said. “I never really made the decision not to talk to Sacramento. It just kind of happened.”
Of course, it’s hard to be-lieve the team picking fourth
The smoke is building around Jaden Ivey to the Knicks
Kristie AckertNew York Daily News
TORONTO — The Yankees head into the Tampa Bay area this week with per-haps their biggest challenge ahead of them. Sure, they are coming in with the best record in baseball and a huge lead in the American League East. And just last week they swept the Rays back in the Bronx. Their pitchers have allowed the fewest runs in the majors and their hitters have hammered the most home runs.
But this week could define not only this season, but the franchise’s next decade.
Wednesday, before the team heads back to the Bronx to face the Astros, is the scheduled time for the arbitration on Aaron Judge’s 2022 salary. The process has never been described as a positive, relationship-building experience by play-ers who went through it — just ask Dellin Betances. It’s a process that Judge, whose historic home run pace this season is not supposed to be taken into consideration, remembers from when the Yankees beat Betances and the hard feelings that grew
Yankees need to avoid arbitration with Judge
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Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees hits his second home run of the game in the fifth inning against the Chicago Cubs at Yankee Stadium on June 11.
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Jaden Ivey (23) of the Purdue Boilermakers watches the ball in the first half against the St. Peter’s Peacocks in the Sweet Sixteen round of the 2022 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at Wells Fargo Center on March 25 in Philadelphia.
Don AmoreHartford Courant
Fifty years ago this week, legislation pro-hibiting federally funded educational institutions from discriminating against students or em-ployees based on gender, became the law of the land.
It was a momentous day in sports history, though that wasn’t wide-ly grasped until a few years later, and it rep-resented a triumph and turning point in the life of Donna Lopiano, who grew up in Connecti-cut dreaming of playing baseball, pitching for the Yankees, she says, until she learned Little League rules didn’t allow girls to play.
She isn’t planning any-thing special to mark the anniversary. Never does.
“Another day,” she said.
Another day in the fight?
“Yep” she said. “If I had one wish, it would be for the federal government to say that no institu-tion of higher education or high school district can get federal money unless they belong to a government associa-tion that has as a condi-tion of membership that
school’s compliance with Title IX.”
President Richard Nixon signed Title IX into law on June 23, 1972, the very day he taped what came to be known as the “Smoking Gun” conver-sation with his chief of staff, sealing his presi-dential fate in the Water-gate scandal. It was also the very night Bernice Gera became the first fe-male to umpire in a pro-fessional baseball game, but the treatment she received prompted her to retire after one game in Geneva, N.Y.
Three years later Lopi-ano, who became the director of women’s ath-letics at the University of Texas, was called up for the fight to reject an amendment offered by Texas Sen. John Tower that would give football and men’s basketball an exemption from Title IX, effectively removing its teeth.
“Don’t forget, no one knew the 37 words of Title IX applied to athletic par-ticipation,” Lopiano said. “At the time, there was, as there is with all laws, the expectation that if you pass a law that makes it illegal to discriminate on
As Title IX turns 50, visionary Donna Lopiano still sees
much left unfinished in gender equity
in sports
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In this photo from September 17, 2015, President of Sports Management Resources, Donna Lopiano Ph.D., speaks onstage during the New York Times Schools for Tomorrow conference at New York Times Building in New York City.
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ML Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUEEast
W L Pct GBNY Yankees 50 17 .746 —Toronto 38 29 .567 11.5Boston 37 31 .544 13.5Tampa Bay 36 31 .537 14.0Baltimore 30 38 .441 20.5
Central W L Pct GBMinnesota 38 30 .559 —Cleveland 34 28 .548 1.0Chi. White Sox 32 33 .492 4.5Detroit 26 41 .388 11.5Kansas City 23 42 .354 13.5
West W L Pct GBHouston 41 25 .621 —LA Angels 33 36 .478 9.5Texas 31 35 .470 10.0Seattle 29 39 .426 13.0Oakland 23 45 .338 19.0
Sunday’s gamesBaltimore 2, Tampa Bay 1Toronto 10, NY Yankees 9Detroit 7, Texas 3Oakland 4, Kansas City 0LA Angels 4, Seattle 0Houston 4, Chi. White Sox 3
Monday’s gamesBoston 5, Detroit 2NY Yankees 4, Tampa Bay 2Chi. White Sox 8, Toronto 5Kansas City at LA Angels, 9:38 p.m.
Tuesday’s gamesDetroit (Brieske 1-5) at Boston (Hill 2-4), 7:10 p.m.NY Yankees (Cortes 6-2) at Tampa Bay (TBD), 7:10 p.m.Cleveland (Civale 2-3) at Minnesota (Ryan 5-3), 7:40 p.m.Toronto (Gausman 5-6) at Chi. White Sox (Cease 5-3), 8:10 p.m.Kansas City (Heasley 1-3) at LA Angels (Detmers 2-3), 9:38 p.m.Seattle (Gonzales 3-7) at Oakland (Kaprielian 0-4), 9:40 p.m.
NATIONAL LEAGUEEast
W L Pct GBNY Mets 45 24 .652 —Atlanta 39 29 .574 5.5Philadelphia 36 32 .529 8.5Miami 29 36 .446 14.0Washington 24 46 .343 21.5
Central W L Pct GBMilwaukee 39 30 .565 —St. Louis 38 31 .551 1.0Pittsburgh 27 39 .409 10.5Chi. Cubs 25 42 .373 13.0Cincinnati 23 43 .348 14.5
West W L Pct GBLA Dodgers 40 25 .615 —San Diego 41 27 .603 .5San Francisco 37 29 .561 3.5Arizona 32 36 .471 9.5Colorado 30 37 .448 11.0
Sunday’s gamesWashington 9, Philadelphia 3Pittsburgh 4, San Francisco 3Miami 6, NY Mets 2Milwaukee 6, Cincinnati 3Atlanta 6, Chi. Cubs 0Colorado 8, San Diego 3
Monday’s gamesNY Mets 6, Miami 0Pittsburgh 12, Chi. Cubs 1Atlanta 2, San Francisco 1Milwaukee 2, St. Louis 0Arizona at San Diego, 9:40 p.m.
Tuesday’s gamesColorado (Feltner 1-2) at Miami (Castano 0-1), 6:40 p.m.LA Dodgers (Gonsolin 8-0) at Cincinnati (Mahle 2-5), 6:40 p.m.Chi. Cubs (Swarmer 1-2) at Pittsburgh (Contreras 1-1), 7:05 p.m.San Francisco (DeSclafani 0-1) at Atlanta (Strider 3-2), 7:20 p.m.St. Louis (Flaherty 0-0) at Milwaukee (Ashby 1-5), 8:10 p.m.Arizona (Gallen 4-2) at San Diego (Manaea 3-3), 9:40 p.m.
InterleagueSunday’s games
Boston 6, St. Louis 4Cleveland 5, LA Dodgers 3Arizona 7, Minnesota 1
Tuesday’s gamesWashington (Fedde 4-5) at Baltimore (TBD), 7:05 p.m.Philadelphia (Gibson 4-2) at Texas (Perez 4-2), 8:05 p.m.NY Mets (Williams 1-3) at Houston (Urquidy 5-3), 8:10 p.m.
Pro football
USFLWeek 10
Saturday, June 18New Jersey 26, Philadelphia 23Birmingham 21, Tampa Bay 18
Sunday’s gamesMichigan 33, Pittsburgh 21Houston 20, New Orleans 3
End of regular season
USFL PLAYOFFSSemifinalsSaturday
NorthPhiladelphia vs. New Jersey, 3 p.m.
SouthNew Orleans vs. Birmingam, 8 p.m.
ChampionshipSunday, July 3
North Champion vs. South Champion, 7:30 p.m.
Pro basketball
NBA DRAFTThursday
(at Chicago)1st round
1. Orlando2. Oklahoma City3. Houston4. Sacramento5. Detroit6. Indiana7. Portland8. New Orleans (from Los Angeles Lakers)9. San Antonio10. Washington11. New York12. Oklahoma City (from LA Clippers)13. Charlotte14. Cleveland15. Charlotte (from New Orleans)16. Atlanta17. Houston (from Brooklyn)18. Chicago19. Minnesota20. San Antonio (from Toronto)21. Denver22. Memphis (from Utah)23. Philadelphia24. Milwaukee25. San Antonio (from Boston)26. Dallas27. Miami28. Golden State29. Memphis30. Oklahoma City (from Phoenix)
WNBASunday’s games
Seattle 81, New York 72Washington 71, Connecticut 63Indiana 89, Chicago 87Dallas 92, Los Angeles 82Las Vegas 96, Minnesota 95
Monday’s gamesNo games scheduled
Tuesday’s gamesDallas at Atlanta, 7 p.m.Chicago at Las Vegas, 10 p.m.Minnesota at Phoenix, 10 p.m.Washington at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
Wednesday’s gameNew York at Connecticut, 7 p.m.
College baseball
COLLEGE WORLD SERIESAt Charles Schwab Field
Omaha, Neb.All Times EDT
(Double Elimination; x-if necessary)Bracket 1
Friday, June 17Game 1 – Oklahoma 13, Texas A&M 8Game 2 – Notre Dame 7, Texas 3
SundayGame 3 – Texas A&M 10, Texas 2Game 4 – Oklahoma 6, Notre Dame 2
TuesdayGame 5 – Texas A&M (47-20) vs. Notre Dame (41-16) , 2 p.m.
WednesdayGame 6 – Oklahoma (49-24) vs. Game 5 winner, 2 p.m.x-Game 7 – Game 6 replay if necessary
Bracket 2Saturday, June 18
Game 1 – Arkansas 17, Stanford 2Game 2 – Mississippi 5, Auburn 1
MondayGame 3 – Auburn 6, Stanford 2Game 4 – Mississippi 13, Arkansas 5
TuesdayGame 5 – Auburn (46-23) vs. Arkansas (49-21) 7 p.m.
WednesdayGame 6 – Mississippi (44-2) vs. Game 5 winner, 7 p.m.x-Game 7 – Game 6 replay if necessary
Championship Series(Best-of-3)
Saturday: Teams TBD, 7 p.m.Sunday, June 26: Teams TBD, 2 p.mx-Monday, June 27: Teams TBD, 7 p.m.
Pro hockey
STANLEY CUP FINAL(Best-of-7; x-if necessary)Colorado 2, Tampa Bay 1
Wednesday, June 15: Colorado 4, Tampa Bay 3, OTSaturday, June 18: Colorado 7, Tampa Bay 0Monday: Tampa Bay 6, Colorado 2Wednesday: Colorado at Tampa Bay, 8 p.m., ABCFriday: Tampa Bay at Colorado, 8 p.m., ABCx-Sunday, June 26: Colorado at Tampa Bay, 8 p.m., ABCx-Tuesday, June 28: Tampa Bay at Colorado, 8 p.m., ABC
Golf
U.S. OPENBrookline, Mass.
Purse: $17,500,000The Country Club (par 70, 7,254 yards)
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x-Jennifer Kupcho 63-67-69-71-270 (-18)Nelly Korda 67-65-66-72-270 (-18)Leona Maguire 69-68-68-65-270 (-18)Lydia Ko 70-68-65-68-271 (-17)Carlota Ciganda 68-65-72-67-272 (-16)Jessica Korda 68-68-69-67-272 (-16)Atthaya Thitikul 68-69-67-68-272 (-16)Lexi Thompson 65-69-68-70-272 (-16)Brooke Henderson 68-66-67-72-273 (-15)Wei Ling Hsu 70-69-68-66-273 (-15)Allisen Corpuz 69-70-70-65-274 (-14)Hannah Green 70-68-68-69-275 (-13)Cristie Kerr 69-72-65-69-275 (-13)Caroline Masson 67-68-70-70-275 (-13)Lilia Vu 68-71-71-65-275 (-13)Gerina Mendoza Piller 64-72-72-68-276 (-12)Sarah Schmelzel 71-68-69-68-276 (-12)Chella Choi 68-74-65-70-277 (-11)Na Yeon Choi 69-71-68-69-277 (-11)Dana Finkelstein 71-69-69-68-277 (-11)Gina Kim 71-68-69-69-277 (-11)Minjee Lee 68-69-66-74-277 (-11)Anna Nordqvist 65-70-70-72-277 (-11)Na Rin An 67-73-70-68-278 (-10)Ayaka Furue 72-70-72-64-278 (-10)Megan Khang 67-72-71-68-278 (-10)Xiyu Lin 70-67-69-72-278 (-10)Brittany Lincicome 69-69-69-71-278 (-10)Haru Nomura 71-70-65-72-278 (-10)Amy Olson 69-70-69-70-278 (-10)Madelene Sagstrom 65-69-70-74-278 (-10)Pei-Yun Chien 72-68-67-72-279 (-9)Alison Lee 70-71-68-70-279 (-9)Stacy Lewis 67-71-73-68-279 (-9)Ryann O’Toole 67-72-72-68-279 (-9)Su-Hyun Oh 73-67-67-72-279 (-9)Pornanong Phatlum 71-71-70-67-279 (-9)Paula Reto 71-65-73-70-279 (-9)Thidapa Suwannapura 68-73-72-66-279 (-9)
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FORMULA ONEAWS Canadian Grand Prix
At Circuit Gilles-VilleneuveMontreal
Lap Length: 2.71 miles1. Max Verstappen, Belgium, Red Bull Racing, 70 laps, 1:36:21:757, 118.080 mph.2. Carlos Sainz, Spain, Ferrari, 70, 1:36:22:7573. Lewis Hamilton, England, Mercedes, 70, 1:36:28:7574. George Russell, United Kingdom, Mercedes, 70, 1:36:34:575. Charles Leclerc, Monaco, Ferrari, 70, 1:36:36:9576. Esteban Ocon, France, Alpine, 70, 1:36:45:6577. Fernando Alonso, Spain, Alpine, 70, 1:36:46:6578. Valtteri Bottas, Finland, Alfa Romeo Racing, 70, 1:36:46:9579. Zhou Guanyu, China, Alfa Romeo Racing, 70, 1:36:48:75710. Lance Stroll, Canada, Aston Martin, 70, 1:36:59:95711. Daniel Ricciardo, Australia, McLaren, 70, 1:37:4:75712. Sebastian Vettel, Germany, Aston Martin, 70, 1:37:5:95713. Alexander Albon, England, Williams Racing, 70, 1:37:6:65714. Pierre Gasly, France, AlphaTauri, 70, 1:37:6:95715. Lando Norris, England, McLaren, 70, 1:37:13:85716. Nicholas Latifi, Canada, Williams Racing, 70, 1:37:21:75717. Kevin Magnussen, Denmark, Haas Ferrari, 70, 1:37:29:957
Not classified18. Yuki Tsunoda, Japan, AlphaTauri, 47, Retired19. Mick Schumacher, Switzerland, Haas Ferrari, 18, Retired20. Sergio Perez, Mexico, Red Bull Racing, 7, Re-tired
Kristie AckertNew York Daily News
ST. PETERSBURG. Fla. — Ger-rit Cole had his no-hit bid broken up in the eighth, and Clay Holmes finally surrendered a run. It didn’t matter. After watching their bull-pen blow a lead for the second straight day, the Yankees simply rallied in the top of the ninth for a 4-2 win over the Rays at Tropi-cana Field.
It’s the 13th time this sea-son the Yankees (50-17) have responded with a win after los-ing a game. They have only lost back-to-back games three times this season and they’ve not had a losing streak longer than three games. The Rays (36-31) have lost four straight to the Yankees now and six out of their last seven games. The Yankees improved to 25-11 against the American League East, and are the first team in baseball to reach 50 wins.
Josh Donaldson singled with one out off Jason Adam and scored when Manuel Margot was injured on Aaron Hicks’ fly ball to the wall in right field. Margot crashed into the wall and had to be carted off after apparently in-juring his knee. Hicks scored on Trevino’s sacrifice fly.
Isaac Paredes’ scorched a ground ball up the middle to break up Cole’s no-hit bid with no outs in the eighth.
After Cole left, Holmes gave up a one-out double to pinch hit-ter Francisco Mejia and allowed Paredes to score on Yandy Diaz’s soft grounder back to the mound.
It was only the second inherited runner out of 13 that Holmes allowed to score this season. Holmes saw the first run scored against him since April 8 when Manuel Margot beat out a short infield grounder. His franchise record streak was snapped at 31 consecutive scoreless innings and 29 appearances.
So, Cole had nothing to show for a pretty terrific night. The Yankees $324 million man was charged with that one run on one hit over 7.1 innings pitched. He walked three and struck out 12.
Cole retired the first two batters he faced, but then his nemesis Ji-Man Choi worked a six-pitch walk. He responded by striking out Randy Arozarena to end the
inning and then went on to strike out the next five hitters he faced. He had to work out of the stretch again in the fifth when he gave up a one-out walk to Brett Phillips, who was an emergency replace-ment for an injured Kevin Kier-maier. After getting a flyball out from Isaac Paredes, he walked Josh Lowe. Cole struck out catch-er Rene Pinto to get out of the jam.
The 31-year-old had flirted with a perfect game earlier this month. Cole took a no-hitter into the seventh inning against the Ti-gers on June 3. Jonathan Schoop spoiled Cole’s perfect night with two outs in the seventh. Schoop grounded up the middle, just past the mitt of diving second base-man DJ LeMahieu. That came on
the heels of Jameson Taillon tak-ing a no-hitter into the eighth in-ning the night before. It was the fourth time this season a Yankee starter has taken a no-hit bid into the sixth inning or later.
His last start was also against the Rays, back in the Bronx. Cole threw six scoreless, striking out seven and walking one. In three starts against the Rays this season, Cole has allowed one earned run over 19.2 innings. Cole has struck out at least 10 batters in his last six starts at Tropicana Field, the longest such stretch by a visiting pitcher at the venue.
It wasn’t the only dominant pitching performance at the Trop Monday night. Shane McClana-han kept the Yankees’ offense off balance for most of the night.
Anthony Rizzo homered in his first at-bat, his fourth home run in his last five games. It was Rizzo’s first hit off the Rays’ young lefty after going 0-for-8 with two strikeouts against him in previous meetings. He also singled off him in the sixth.
That was all the Yankees got against McClanahan, who al-lowed one run through six in-nings of work. He walked one and struck out eight. The Yankees got four hits off him.
The Yankees got their second run off Ryan Thompson in the seventh. Gleyber Torres doubled to lead off the inning and then scored when Choi dropped the throw on Jose Trevino’s ground ball.
Cole takes no-hitter into eighth inning, Yankees rally past Rays
DAVE NELSON/USA TODAY
New York Yankees starting pitcher Gerrit Cole (45) throws a pitch during the first inning against the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field on Monday.
Brian HeymanNewsday
NEW YORK — Buck Showalter had won-dered aloud Sunday whether David Peterson was going to be available to deliver his pitches Monday against Miami. The Mets’ manager knew Peterson’s wife was going to have to head to a hospital one of these days for a differ-ent kind of delivery.
Less than 90 minutes before the game at Citi Field, Showalter was asked for the alternative starters if Peterson’s wife went into labor and the pitcher had to bolt before the first pitch.
“Why, is it important?” Showalter asked, playfully. “It’s not going to happen, hopefully. I’ve got to call Mrs. Peterson.”
Mr. Peterson ended up taking the ball and doing good things with it. The 26-year-old lefty skillfully pitched out of trouble several times on the way to 5 1/3 scoreless innings. The Mets were on their way to a 6-0 win in the series finale.
The Mets, who got three RBIs from the pre-viously struggling Eduardo Escobar, moved to 45-24 after winning five of seven on the home-stand, including three of four against the Mar-lins. This marked the Mets’ 16th series win out of 21. They have lost only three and split two.
The one negative regarding their workday came when Jeff McNeil left after the fourth in-ning with tightness in his right hamstring.
Peterson was a positive. He improved to 4-1 with a 3.18 ERA after yielding six singles. He walked two, hit one and fanned seven. Sixty of his 100 pitches landed in the strike zone. Adam Ottavino, Drew Smith and Yoan Lopez finished off a combined seven-hitter.
The Mets began backing Peterson in the first, nicking lefty Trevor Rogers (3-6) for a run.
Brandon Nimmo lined a leadoff double to right-center, his first of three hits. Starling Marte reached on an error. Francisco Lindor reached on an infield single to load the bases. After Pete Alonso struck out, Rogers missed with a full-count fastball against Mark Canha -- 1-0.
The Mets scored two more in the fourth. J.D. Davis worked out a one-out walk. McNeil
grounded a double to left-center, extending his hitting streak to eight games. Escobar then lifted a sac fly to left.
McNeil tagged and went to third, then ran home on a wild pitch. He appeared to be walk-ing a bit gingerly back to the dugout. Luis Guil-lorme replaced him at second for the fifth.
Alonso, leading the majors with 63 RBIs at the start of the day, added another in the fifth with a sac fly that made it 4-0.
Escobar then snapped a 0-for-23 skid with a two-run single in the eighth.
Peterson had been up and down as a fill-in starter with injuries plaguing the rotation. His previous three had been kind of down. The longest lasted 4 2/3.
“Command,” Showalter said. “ . . . He gets out of sync and doesn’t get back in for a few hitters, pitches. He gets a little quick down the hill. The release point moves around a little bit.”
This time, his command was better. The
Marlins (29-36) still managed several threats.They had runners at first and second after
a couple of singles to open the second. Jerar Encarnacion, who beat the Mets on Sunday with a grand slam off Seth Lugo, followed with a hard grounder wide of third. Escobar made a diving stop and got the force at second, leaving runners at the corners.
Peterson got Bryan De La Cruz looking at an fastball and Luke Williams swinging at a slider to escape.
Third inning, another first-and-second, no-out situation, another escape.
Fifth inning, first and second with one out, another escape. Peterson got Jorge Soler to ground into a 5-4-3 double play.
After allowing a single and walk with one out in the sixth, Peterson left to a loud ova-tion. Ottavino escaped the jam for him, getting Encarnacion to hit into another 5-4-3 double play.
David Peterson delivers shutout ball as Mets lefty awaits birth of 1st child
BRAD PENNER/USA TODAY
New York Mets starting pitcher David Peterson (23) pitches against the Miami Marlins during the first inning at Citi Field on Monday.
Jason MastrodonatoBoston Herald
BOSTON — The Andrew Benintendi trade won the Red Sox a game on Monday night.
Josh Winckowski earned his second straight win out of the Sox’ rotation while Franchy Cor-dero had a three-hit night and a sensational play on defense to lead the Sox to a 5-2 win over the lowly Detroit Tigers.
Cordero and Winckowski were the center-pieces of a trade that sent Benintendi to the Kansas City Royals prior to the 2021 season.
The takeaways: 1. Cordero needed this.
May was Cordero’s month as the 27-year-old native of the Dominican Republic hit .274 with an .803 OPS and essentially stole Bobby Dalbec’s job as the primary first baseman.
But Cordero has struggled since. He en-tered Monday without a multi-hit game since May 29, hitting .130 with a .452 OPS in 17 games in that span.
Still getting everyday at-bats while Kike Hernandez is on the injured list, Cordero fi-nally had a huge game, driving in two runs on a single in the fifth and collecting three hits in total, including his ninth double of the season.
But the play to remember came in the third inning, when the Tigers were threatening with the score tied, 1-1. Robbie Grossman smoked a line drive to first base, where Cordero made a diving catch, then turned around and tagged Tucker Barnhart for an unassisted, inning-ending double play.
As the Aug. 2 trading deadline starts to get closer, the Red Sox will need to decide where to go at first base. There’s a long ways till then, but Cordero will need many more nights like this to prove himself worthy of playing time in the second half. 2. Winckowski shines again.
Red Sox cruise over Tigers behind Winckowski and Cordero
COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIAB2 Wednesday, June 22, 2022
Evan WebeckThe Mercury News
ATLANTA — There was good reason to circle this series on the calendar. The de-fending World Series champions. The 107-win team that missed out on its chance to dethrone them in the playoffs. Even a pre-game ring ceremony for the player who switched sides in the offseason.
Adding to the rea-sons to tune in, the Gi-ants and Braves have also been the National League’s hottest teams since the calendar turned to June. Despite early season stumbles, both teams entered Monday’s series open-er nine games over .500.
Safe to say, their first of seven even-tual showdowns lived up to the billing, a 2-1 walkoff loss to Atlanta that wasn’t decided until Orlando Arcia’s two-out, ninth-in-ning single off Camilo Doval. Matt Olson, who reached on a walk to lead off the inning, raced home from the second base and just beat Joc Pederson’s throw from left field.
Staff aces Logan Webb and Max Fried traded zeros almost all game, but it still ended with only the Giants’ 10th loss in the past 40 games with Webb on the mound, which had been the best winning percentage of any team in baseball behind any starter.
Webb delivered an-other gem — Travis d’Arnaud’s second-inning solo blast ac-counted for the only run he’s allowed over his past 152/3 innings — but the Giants’ of-fense was equally flummoxed by Fried.
It wasn’t until the eighth that the Giants mounted any serious scoring threat. By then, Fried had thrown 95 pitches, and he would be done by No. 102, setting up a critical bullpen decision by Atlanta manager Brian Snitker.
In the first three bat-ters of the eighth, the Giants had nearly as many men reach base (three) as they did for the first seven innings (four), loading the bases with no outs and forcing Fried from the game. They trailed 1-0, with the tying run 90 feet away.
Rather than bring in a right-hander that would have likely set up pinch-hit matchups with the Giants’ left-handed bats waiting in the wings — Joc Ped-erson, who delivered so many clutch hits here for home team last year, among them — Snitker opted for former San Francisco left-hander Will Smith, who allowed the game-tying hit, anyway.
The rally was started by Luis Gonzalez, who
laid down a bunt base hit to lead off the in-ning, then scored the Giants’ first run of the game on a bases-loaded single by Austin Slater, who came to the plate instead of Peder-son because the Braves stuck with the lefty.
Pederson got his chance — and a stand-ing ovation as he stepped to the plate — in the ninth, pinch-hitting against closer Kenley Jansen as the Giants cleared their bench against one of the toughest relievers in the game. He singled and reached third base on a piece of aggres-sive base running on a single to center from Gonzalez, but it went to waste as Thairo Es-trada and Brandon Crawford struck out to end the inning.
The Giants came up to the plate eight times with runners in scoring position but Slater’s RBI single was their only base hit. They stranded seven run-ners on base.
The Braves (16-4) were one of only two teams to enter Mon-day night with a record since May 29 better than the Giants (13-7), and neither team got any breathing room all night.
It stood in contrast to many of their meet-ings over the past de-cade, perhaps an indi-cation of their evenly matched rosters. Near-ly half of their games since 2012 — 24 of 60 — had been decided by five or more runs, more than any other set of matchups featuring an NL West team.
Not Monday night.Neither team would
come close to five runs, which maybe also should have been ex-pected with Webb and Fried and the pitch-ing staffs who owned two of the three best ERAs in the majors this month (SF: 2.69; ATL: 2.53). The Giants allowed two or fewer runs for the ninth time in their past 14 games and for the first time, it wasn’t enough to emerge with a win.
Webb, with seven in-nings of one-run ball, now has strung togeth-er his best two outings since the first two of the season. Manager Gabe Kapler has also extended him further than he has all season, allowing him to throw 107 pitches Monday, his fourth straight out-ing with a triple-digit pitch count, after he threw a season-high 112 over seven shut-out innings against the Royals in his last start.
Right-hander An-thony DeSclafani is expected to be acti-vated from the 60-day injured list Tuesday and make his first start since the third week of April as the Giants look to bounce back from the series-opening loss.
Stymied all night, SF Giants walked off by Braves in series opener
Derrick GooldSt. Louis Post-Dispatch
MILWAUKEE — A June showdown be-tween two rivals tied atop the National League Central standings began with two of the division’s finest starters setting a tone for a week in Wisconsin.
Miles Mikolas did not allow much.Corbin Burnes allowed nothing.The reigning Cy Young Award winner
struck out 10 Cardinals in seven scoreless innings to pilot Milwaukee to a 2-0 vic-tory Monday night at American Family Field. The Cardinals slipped two base hits into Burnes’ line but were otherwise over-whelmed by the right-hander. Milwaukee (39-30) inched out to a one-game lead in the division against the Cardinals (38-31) with three games remaining in this series.
The other three teams in the NL Central have left these two to tussle all summer for the division crown, and both teams are try-ing to cover for fraying pitching staffs. The Brewers put a third member of the rotation on the injured list Monday; the Cardinals auditioned another right-hander for the hole they have in the middle innings. And while the thin spots on the pitching staffs could sway the series later, Monday’s open-er was a showcase of stalwarts. Through four innings, the two starters had combined to allow two hits.
The only runs that came with the starters in the game were from the same swing — a two-run homer in the fifth inning by Tyrone Taylor. Mikolas winced as soon as Taylor connected on his 93 mph sinker and cursed as it carried over the center-field fence.
Starts like these are decided by single swings such as that. Drawing aces, Mikolas matches them, inning by inning
As impressive as Mikolas has been throughout the season — flirting with a no-hitter one day, churning out quality starts most days — his record and the Cardinals’ record in his starts has not reflected that success. He keeps drawing aces as oppo-nents.
Four times in his previous 13 starts, Miko-las has pitched opposite one of the best starters in the game, from Max Scherzer one night in St. Louis to Shane McClanahan in St. Petersburg, Florida. His season started with an early duel against Marlins ace Sandy Alcantara, and with the start Monday, Miko-las had twice pitched opposite the reign-ing Cy Young Award winner, Milwaukee’s
Burnes.Mikolas had lost three of those previous
four starts against potential All-Stars or Cy Young winners.
Opposite Alcantara, Scherzer, and Mc-Clanahan, Mikolas allowed a total of two runs in a combined 20 innings. He walked only one batter in the those 20 innings and struck out 19. Yet the Cardinals were 1-2 in those games, mustering meager offense, if any at all.
More of the same Monday. While Burnes pitched seven scoreless, Mikolas allowed only two runs, both on a home run from the Brewers’ No. 9 hitter. In his first start since taking a no-hitter to the final out of the game, Mikolas used 100 pitches to complete 61/3 innings. He retired nine of the first 10 Brewers he faced.
Burnes allowed two hits total.Rookie Juan Yepez had both of them.In his two starts against the Cardinals
with Mikolas on the mound, Burnes pitched 14 scoreless innings and struck out 21. Ovie-do nails first audition for new role
Within 30 hours of manager Oliver Mar-mol saying Johan Oviedo would get the next look at solving the Cardinals’ uncertainty in middle relief, the right-hander had his op-portunity. The Cardinals trailed by two runs when Oviedo entered in the seventh inning, tagging in for Mikolas with a runner on base. Oviedo did what teammates T.J. McFarland and Drew VerHagen did not Friday and Sunday, respectively.
He froze the score where he got it.With considerable help from his defense
— especially two sublime plays by third baseman Nolan Arenado — Oviedo pitched 12/3 scoreless innings. He struck out former MVP Christian Yelich on a 96.7 mph fastball to end the seventh without allowing Miko-las’ leftover runner to score. In the eighth, Oviedo allowed two hits but kept the middle of the Brewers’ order scoreless to give the of-fense a chance to overtake a 2-0 game in the ninth.
The offense stalled when, with Paul Gold-schmidt at the plate and no outs, Brendan Donovan attempted to steal second and was ruled out after a replay review.
That gift was more than enough for Brew-ers closer Josh Hader. He followed Devin Williams’ scoreless eighth with a scoreless ninth for his 20th save. Edman stays golden, regardless of position
A question the Cardinals asked internally
when they made the decision to demote Paul DeJong and turn to Tommy Edman as the everyday shortstop was how much of their golden defense would they lose with Edman in a new position. Though he did not win a Gold Glove Award, DeJong led all shortstops in several advanced metrics and finished high in significant defensive statis-tics.
Though he did win a Gold Glove Award at second, the shift to short would be a test of Edman’s arm and how the Cardinals would position him to thrive at shortstop.
Early returns are superb, as Monday illus-trated.
Edman had three standout plays at short-stop before the start of the sixth inning. In the third inning, he ranged to his left, passed second base, got a grounder on the short hop, and all of that still wasn’t the most im-pressive part of the play. He spun to get his footing and threw out leadoff hitter Yelich to end the inning. In the fourth, Edman raced from a shifted position on the right side of the infield to catch a pop-up near foul terri-tory on the third-base line. And in the fifth, he dashed into shallow center to catch a soft liner.
And by the end of Monday’s game, Ed-man surpassed DeJong in innings at short-stop for the Cardinals. Monday was Ed-man’s 23rd start at the position, matching DeJong’s total. In 202 innings at the posi-tion, DeJong had plus-4 defensive runs saved. That tied for the most by any short-stop with fewer than 400 innings at the posi-tion this season. (Teammate Edmundo So-sa, with 149 innings, also had plus-4 DRS.) Through his first 195 innings at the posi-tion, Edman was a plus-3 DRS, according to Sports Info Solution. At least one of the plays made Monday nudged him toward plus-4, too. Bader’s arm keeps Brewers in check
The Brewers’ first hit against Mikolas — a leadoff double for No. 2 hitter Willy Adames — gave Milwaukee a chance to play a smidge of small ball for the game’s first run in the fourth. Adames took second on a groundout, but that’s as far as the Brew-ers could get the rally in large part to center fielder Harrison Bader’s arm and a division rival’s respect for it. Andrew McCutchen skied a fly ball to straightaway center with Adames at third. Bader took a step or two back from where he intended to catch the ball, lined up his throw and once he had the ball — let it loose.
Brewers Burnes outduels Mikolas in clash of Central contenders
Jason MackeyPittsburgh Post-Gazette
PITTSBURGH — After a two-month wait that featured talk of team control, service time and development, with Pirates fans understandably eager to see the freakishly talented prospect return to Pittsburgh and bring with him a glimmer of hope, Oneil Cruz’s first big league game was disrupted by, of all things, a squirrel.
The curious onlooker, chased by three stadium employees carrying nets and a bucket, scur-ried along the warning track be-fore discovering the North Side Notch and fleeing into the bull-pens. It was a brief snippet of what transpired Monday night but also telling: Even squirrels didn’t want to miss out on see-ing the electric, 6-foot-7 short-stop’s return.
Getting his first MLB action since a two-game tease at the end of the 2021 season, Cruz did not disappoint. In fact, he stole the show during Pittsburgh’s 12-1 romp over the Cubs at PNC Park, showcasing his speed, arm strength and power during another dazzling display, with Cruz collecting two hits, includ-ing a double, plus four RBIs and two runs scored.
Making Monday even more enjoyable: Cruz was hardly alone. Promoted along with Bligh Madris, who made his MLB debut by piling up three hits, the duo combined to drive in six of the Pirates’ 12 runs on the night. Daniel Vogelbach also had two hits, two RBIs and scored three times.
After reaching on an error in his first at-bat, Cruz eventually scored on a sacrifice fly, reach-ing a sprint speed of 31.5 feet per second that qualified as the fastest for a Pirates player this season.
A half-inning later, in the top of the third, Cruz backhanded a ball from Cubs catcher Willson Contreras and uncorked a mis-sile. His throw whizzed across the diamond at 96.7 mph, the hardest for any position player this season and faster than any pitch Pirates starter JT Brubaker
threw against Chicago.It’s actually the second-fast-
est ball ever thrown by a posi-tion player in the Statcast Era, trailing only Fernando Tatis Jr. (97.3 mph in 2020).
If that wasn’t enough, the Cruz Show continued in his second at-bat, as the big man ripped a fastball up the middle for a bases-clearing double that left his bat at 112.9, the highest exit velocity for any Pirates hitter this season.
Yeah, it was impressive. And long overdue. If there’s some-thing lacking in Cruz’s game, it wasn’t evident — or important — on this night, as the Pirates throttled a Cubs team that has really struggled of late.
Before Cruz bolted him, Mad-ris barreled an elevated sinker, his base hit registering an exit velocity of 109.1 mph.
Coupled with his steal of sec-ond base in the second inning, Madris became the third player in team history to record a hit, RBI and a stolen base in his MLB debut since 1920 (when RBI be-came an official statistic) and the first since Andrew McCutch-en on June 4, 2009.
Madris added to his two-run
single with a double in the sixth and a single in seventh.
Meanwhile, Cruz produced the three fastest spring speeds of the year by a Pirates player: 31.5 feet/second, 30.7 and 30.3, while three of his four MLB hits have gone at least 103.8 mph.
As much as numbers can try to quantify what’s great about Cruz — and they’re certainly fun given his immense talent — there’s also something with him that’s tougher to explain, a confidence the Pirates have with Cruz in the lineup, a com-fortability knowing he’s going to supply some offense or do something impressive.
The Pirates’ youthful swagger was evident against the Cubs, their ability to excite just a flick of the bat away at all times, ea-ger fans not knowing where the game might turn next.
If it wasn’t Cruz, it’s also been Jack Suwinski and his three-homer game Sunday. Or Roansy Contreras on the mound. Cal Mitchell has also had some fun moments, and it’s the general expectation that this sort of stuff should continue.
Cruz and Madris now, Mason Martin and Ji-Hwan Bae later.
Keep the kids coming.On the mound, JT Brubaker
had a performance he won’t soon forget — in large part be-cause he had gone a really long time since his last win. The Pi-rates right-hander worked six scoreless innings, allowing five hits and three walks and striking out five.
Brubaker came into this one 0-7 on the year, with his last win coming Aug. 24, 2021. His six scoreless innings dropped his ERA on the season to 4.11.
With the game hardly in doubt, Vogelbach delivered a two-run double in the seventh, pummeling an outside fastball to center. Cruz added a run-scoring single, Tyler Heineman a double, and Hoy Park tacked on another sacrifice fly to round out the scoring. Around the horn
The 12 runs the Pirates scored represents a season-high. They’re the most Pittsburgh has scored since putting up 14 on Aug. 14, 2021 against the Brew-ers. ... Madris became the 10th player in team history to record 10 hits in his MLB debut, the first to do it since Jason Kendall on April 1, 1996.
Oneil Cruz shines during Pirates’ rout of Cubs
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Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop Oneil Cruz (15) hits a three-run double against the Chicago Cubs during the third inning inning at PNC Park on Monday.
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the basis of sex, that somehow that discrimination will dis-appear, and that’s not exactly what happens. So the expec-tation in 1974 and ’75, when Title IX was on the books with regards to sports, that in five or six years women would be catching up to men and be treated as well as men. And that has never happened.”
Weeks after starting at Texas, Lopiano brought the school’s football budget and the entire budget for all wom-en’s sports to support her testimony before Congress, which helped defeat the Tower Amendment and change the course of women’s athletics, though opponents of Title IX continued for decades to push for amendments to protect
so-called “revenue” sports.“There is a lot of mythol-
ogy here; 98.4% of all athletic programs are losing money,” Lopiano said. “They are not making money, contrary to public thought, ‘Oh, football is making money and basket-ball is making money.’ Not true. They are losing money, and they are getting subsi-dized by institutions, and it is not institutional money, rather it is student tuition dol-lars and mandatory athletics fees. There is no leadership in higher education that is saying ‘stop this madness’ in terms of expenditures in sports pro-grams.”
Denied the chance to play in Stamford’s Little League, Lopiano became a cham-pion softball player, joining the Connecticut Brakettes and starring as a pitcher for 10 years. She earned her bachelor’s degree in physi-cal education from Southern
Connecticut, and her doctor-ate at USC. She coached three sports at Brooklyn College, then spent 17 years at her groundbreaking post at Tex-as. Inducted into 13 Halls of Fame, Lopiano was CEO of the Women’s Sports Foundation and is now president of Sports Management Resources, a consulting firm that bring ex-pertise in Title IX compliance, among other issues in college athletics.
“I have always been data conscious,” Lopiano said. “Each year you look at that data and you hope you al-ways see progress. The fact of the matter is that it has been pretty stagnant for the last 10 to 15 years, in that the gap be-tween support of men’s and women’s athletics has actu-ally increased. What we’re seeing is women never catch-ing up. Instead, men’s sports has continued to grow. Wom-en’s sports has also grown,
exponentially when you consider they started with nothing, but they are still not within reach of men’s sports. ... Right now, participation of women in high school sports has not reached the number of men who played high school sports in 1972.”
Lopiano, 75, finds examples of today’s young female ath-letes, such as Oregon basket-ball player Sedona Prince, be-ing more willing to speak out when they are not treated fair-ly. Prince’s comparison of fa-cilities and amenities between the men’s and women’s Final Fours in 2021 went viral and sparked changes.
“It really takes a Sedona Prince, or an idiosyncratic fig-ure that steps up in a moment in time and becomes an acci-dent of history,” Lopiano said. “It took Sedona’s communi-cation and her willingness to speak out to make the public aware of the discriminations
that was going on. You can’t apply that to all young women in sports. In fact, young female athletes and their families, de-spite knowing every single day that male athletes are getting treated better, are afraid to speak out because they feel if their coach gets mad at them, they may lose their starting position, or their scholarship may not be renewed. It’s great to see a Sedona Prince step up to the plate, but it shouldn’t be assumed that is anything but the exception rather than the rule.”
The 50 years since Title IX has brought monumental change. Girls can play Little League baseball, grow up to be umpires, and women are em-ployed by major league teams in coaching and player de-velopment positions. Profes-sional opportunities are there in basketball, among other sports.
“So there is great progress,”
Lopiano said. “But 43% of all
athletes in high school and
college are women, but in high
school they are 50% on student
population, in college they are
56% of the population, so their
athletic participation propor-
tions are not near those num-
bers.”
More women are needed in
management positions, she
believes, to crack the ceilings,
and the fight goes on, 50 years
and counting. Women’s sports
still has a general, armed with
facts and figures at her finger-
tips, ready to lead it.
“Having grown up an ath-
lete, you don’t cry in your beer
after a loss,” Lopiano said. “So
there is never a thought of, ‘Oh
my gosh, I’m gong to give up.’
You have to keep pushing to
be better, to make the system
better.”
Lopiano From B1
in the clubhouse.With the Yankees looking
like a World Series contender, they shouldn’t let any more hard feelings enter into their relationship with Judge.
The best case scenario is that they can find common ground on a deal for this sea-son or long-term that keeps them out of the room — like they did at the last minute with Luis Severino in the spring of 2019.
To be fair, the Yankees did attempt to avoid this.
The sides talked all spring, but less than two hours before the start of the Yankees’ 2022 season, GM Brian Cashman announced that the team had failed to reach an agreement with the face of the franchise. Judge turned down a deal that would have paid him at least $230.5 million over the next eight years, which puts him in line to become a free agent at the end of this season.
The slugger, who initially set the Opening Day deadline for negotiations, still doesn’t have any set contract for this season, because he and the team were $4 million off when they traded numbers to try and avoid arbitration. Because
of the owners’ lockout, the ar-bitration process will go into the season.
The 30-year-old Judge was coming off one of his most complete years in the big leagues.
The three-time All-Star slashed .287/.373/.544 with a .916 OPS, 39 homers and 93 RBI in 148 games in 2021. Ac-cording to Baseball Savant, Judge was among the league leaders in average exit veloc-ity (95.8 miles per hour), max exit velo (119) and hard-hit percentage (58.4%), all while leading the Yankees in WAR (5.4).
His six years in the big leagues have been
exceptional , averaging .276/.386/.553 and a .940 OPS. He’s the 2017 Rookie of the Year, runner-up to Jose Al-tuve in that same season and a Home Run Derby champion.
“Obviously our intent is to have Aaron Judge stay as a New York Yankee as we move forward and I know that is his intent as well, which is a good thing,” Yankees GM Brian Cashman said after the negoti-ations failed. “Obviously we’re going to be entering those ef-forts in a new arena, which would be at the end of the sea-son when free agency starts and maybe that’ll determine what his real market value would be because we certainly
couldn’t agree at this stage on a contract extension.”
Cashman also made pub-lic the terms they had offered Judge, something that the slugger said “disappointed” him.
The average annual value of $30.5 million would have made him the highest paid position player per year in Yankee history and the sec-ond highest on the team be-hind Gerrit Cole. It would have given him the second-highest AAV of an outfielder in the game, behind only Mike Trout.
The $4 million seemed like a small gap in salary for the face of the franchise, especially
now. Judge is on pace to hit a franchise record 63 home runs. He leads the majors with 25 home runs and is second in slugging percentage at .654. He’s fifth in RBI with 50.
Obviously those numbers are not supposed to be consid-ered when deciding this year’s salary by the arbiter, but they should by the Yankees. Judge is the leader on this team and in the clubhouse. The Yankees are on a path to the playoffs and looking like a contender to end the franchise’s World Series drought. They need to leave Tampa Wednesday night with their slugger happy and their team chemistry in-tact.
Yankees From B1
and the player projected to go
fourth “just happened” to ig-
nore each other. The Knicks,
meanwhile, interviewed Ivey
at the draft combine and at-
tended his pro day last month.
Ivey is represented by CAA,
which is closely associated with the Knicks because it counts team executives Leon Rose and William Wesley as former employees.
Ivey’s specific agent is Aar-on Mintz, who also represents Julius Randle.
“Obviously a tremendous opportunity. A tremendous organization in the New York Knicks,” Ivey said. “Obviously I’d be honored to be able to
play there. I think they recent-ly just played the playoffs (in 2021). I feel like I can comple-ment that organization and help them win if they drafted me.”
For a guard like Ivey, part of the allure of the Knicks is an opportunity to be the lead guard. New York’s only natu-ral point guard on the roster is Derrick Rose, who is coming off two surgeries and hasn’t
played since December.The Knicks are exploring
different ways to fill their PG hole, but outbidding the Mav-ericks for Jalen Brunson seems unlikely and the Kyrie Irving trade rumors are just silly. A feasible option is dealing for Indiana’s Malcolm Brogdon, a crafty point guard with size.
According to ESPN, the Pac-ers, Wizards and Pistons are also interested in trading with
the Kings to draft Ivey. The Knicks have all their future first-round picks, along with intriguing prospects Imman-uel Quickley, Quentin Grimes and Obi Toppin, to offer the Kings.
The Pistons, who own the fifth pick, are one of just two teams to host Ivey for a work-out. The Magic, which picks first, was the other.
Ivey, 20, who averaged 17.3
points and shot 35% from be-yond the arc last season for Purdue, said his inspirations are Ja Morant and Russell Westbrook.
“I can play off the ball or off the ball,” he said. “Obviously I can be a lead guard. But I’m a baller. So I feel like if you need me on the ball, need me off the ball. Whatever the team needs me to do, I feel like I can do.”
Knicks From B1
struggled to find any rhythm in the offensive zone and committed uncharacteristic turnovers that led to scoring chances for the hosts.
A shaky performance in goal - Avalanche starter Darcy Kuemper was pulled midway through the second period af-ter yielding five goals - also will be a concern for the Western Conference champs.
T h i n g s c o u l d n ’ t h a v e s t a r t e d m u c h
better for Colorado when Valeri Nichushkin scored less than five minutes in. But an extended replay review deter-mined the play was offside. A few minutes later, Gabriel Landeskog got the visitors on the board on the power play. It would be the last time Colo-rado led Monday night.
The Lightning scored the next three goals and welcomed a return to form of goalie An-drei Vasilevskiy, who strug-gled mightily in Game 2. He made a handful of jaw-drop-ping saves, robbing Colorado forward J.T. Compher twice in the opening 25 minutes alone. Vasilevskiy, who finished with
37 saves, looked like the stout goalie the Lightning needs to complete its three-peat.
Cirelli tied the score at 1 with a goal in front, slipping the puck past Kuemper as the Lightning started to pick up the pace. Forward Ondrej Pal-at scored with 5:06 left in the first period to give the Light-ning its first lead of the series. It was Palat’s team-leading 10th goal of the playoffs.
Tampa Bay forward Nicho-las Paul, who was barely able to move after getting shoved into the boards in the first pe-riod, gave the Lightning a 3-1 lead less than two minutes into the second.
The Avalanche cut its deficit to 3-2 when Landeskog scored his second power-play goal of the game at 4:43 of the second, but the Lightning quickly shut the door. Stamkos sent the hometown crowd into a frenzy at 7:52. Left all alone in front, he beat Kuemper to make it 4-2.
Forward Pat Maroon scored shortly after coming out of the penalty box for a 5-2 Lightning lead, putting a backhander past Kuemper and ending the goalie’s night after five goals on 22 shots. Backup Pavel Francouz made his Stanley Cup finals debut and allowed Corey Perry’s goal late in the
second as his only hiccup.Colorado, which had all the
momentum after two prom-ising wins to open the series, will have to find a way to re-bound on the road.
“They didn’t hang their head after losing Game 2, and we’re not going to tonight,” Colorado center Nathan MacKinnon said. “Good or bad, we’re not going to trade our spot with anyone in the world. . . . We feel good about our team.”
The Lightning halved its deficit despite playing with-out center Brayden Point, who missed the morning skate. Cooper did not elaborate on
Point’s condition. Point suf-fered a lower-body injury dur-ing a Game 7 win over Toronto in the first round and didn’t play again until Games 1 and 2 of the finals.
Colorado was without for-ward Andre Burakovsky, who was injured in the second peri-od of Game 2. Colorado Coach Jared Bednar said Monday morning that Burakovsky was day-to-day and had yet to ar-rive in Tampa. He scored the Game 1 overtime winner and recorded another goal Satur-day before leaving with an in-jury.
Cup From B1
Benjamin HochmanSt. Louis Post-Dispatch
Harrison Bader, often the Cardinals’ eighth hitter in pre-vious seasons, led off the sec-ond inning in the first game. After he singled, I remember thinking: Ugh, the pitcher is coming up.
And then, I had this merry moment of realization: Wait, no! The pitcher is not coming up! Bader is the ninth hitter, there now is a National League designated hitter ... and I won’t have to endure the worst part of a baseball game ever again.
I might be in the minority, especially in this time-hon-ored baseball town of ours. But for all the tradition of pitchers hitting — and the fascinating strategy involving double-switches and sacrifice bunts and such — I disliked the ex-perience of watching a pitcher actually bat. It got in the way of the game. It prevented the flow of an offense, the smooth churning of a lineup. It was a waste of time.
I did wonder if I’d miss the ritual of it all. It was the NL’s “thing,” so to speak. But as we head into the 70th game of
the Cardinals’ season, here’s thinking the DH in the NL has really improved the game-viewing experience. Sure, the Cards have a couple of guys whose batting averages look like a pitcher’s. But it’s still bet-ter than having some paltry pitcher up there -- these sul-tans of naught -- who wildly flail at pitches like someone trying to swat a fly.
Each game, I relish that in-ternal reminder, as you get to-ward the bottom of the order and remember the ninth hitter isn’t a pitcher.
Incidentally, the Cardinals entered the week ranked sixth in the NL (and 14th in Major League Baseball) with a DH on-base percentage plus slug-ging percentage of .733. As a team, the Cardinals’ overall OPS is .730; last year, it was .725.
As a whole, the OPS of Na-tional League designated hit-ters is .728, while last year the OPS of NL hitting pitchers was .288.
Interestingly, the 2022 teams in the National League getting the most offensive production from the DH spot
aren’t the league’s top teams, while that is the case in the American League.
Now, in the NL in general, the overall OPS of every player combined is lower than last year. This current season, the NL OPS is .713, while last year it was .725.
A fellow named Neil Green-berg, who covers sports analyt-ics for The Washington Post, described that “batted balls aren’t traveling as far when
solid contact is made this sea-son — the ball is traveling four fewer feet than last year even off barrels — and more pitch-es out of the zone are draw-ing swings. There have also been fewer four-seam fast-balls thrown this season and more sinkers and change-ups, which has reduced the effec-tiveness of hitters across the board.”
But from a positive stand-point, he also pointed out that
bunting has gone down this season — as have the number of pinch-hitters used. Again, a positive standpoint to me. Maybe you really enjoyed the sacrifice bunting of a pitcher and the strategy and selfless-ness that came with it. I just like watching a batter knowing he could very well hit the heck out of any pitch.
Yes, of course, I feel bad for pitcher Adam Wainwright, who thoroughly enjoyed hit-ting. He provided some epic — if not historic — moments in the batter’s box, beginning with a homer in his first plate appearance. (And on the first pitch, too!) He won the Silver Slugger in 2017. Even led to a “batting ‘Waino’” bobblehead. And he entered the 2021 sea-son with a .199 career average. The hope would’ve been that “Waino” went over the Men-doza Line (a .200 batting av-erage) in what seemed, at the time, likely the last year with-out the NL DH. Alas, he hit just .123, so his career average is stuck at .193.
The Wainwright stuff was fun and made for fodder. And any time a hitting pitcher did,
well, anything well, it made for something to tweet about. It was a quirk of the game. But I’m fine with it being a quirk of last year or yesteryear.
The DH in the NL provides many more benefits to the game, notably a competitive balance in interleague play (it’s currently 62-61, American League, in 2022) and runs cre-ated by both leagues. And over time, NL managers (and gen-eral managers) should adapt and get more adept at deploy-ing designated hitters.
Also, it will obviously reduce the number of pitchers getting hurt while batting. Now, those injuries were rare. But consid-er how Jack Flaherty’s oblique injury affected the 2021 Cardi-nals. And St. Louis native Max Scherzer, a star of the game, once suffered an injury at the plate, too.
And the DH gives a NL man-ager new options for resting players. New Cardinals man-ager Oliver Marmol often has seized the options as opportu-nities to keep stars off their feet in the field — but keep their bats in the lineup.
How I learned to stop worrying and love the DH in the NL
GREGORY FISHER/USA TODAY
St. Louis Cardinals designated hitter Nolan Gorman (16) hits a home run against the Boston Red Sox during the fourth inning at Fenway Park on June 18.
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Khobi PriceOrlando Sentinel
For the Orlando Magic, who have the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft, it would seem as if the pre-draft process should have been winding down by Monday.
The college basketball season ended more than 2 1/2 months ago and almost five weeks ago, the Magic won the draft lottery that secured them the top pick in Thursday night’s draft.
Most pre-draft workouts and interviews wrapped up early this week, with many of the top prospects traveling to New York City for the draft.
But as Magic president of basketball operations Jeff Welt-man sees it, “it’s still early in the process” and there’s plenty of time for Orlando’s organization to mull over what it’s going to do.
“My dad used to tell me if the paper is due on Friday, don’t turn it in on Monday,” Weltman said when speaking with report-ers on Monday. “We’re going to continue to evaluate. New infor-mation comes in all the time.”
This “paper” is due Thursday evening, but the sentiment re-mains — the Magic are going to use all the time they can before deciding what they’ll do with the draft’s No. 1 pick.
Weltman said he expects the Magic to use the No. 1 pick.
It’s rare for the top pick to be traded. Since the draft lot-tery started in 1985, the No. 1 pick has only been traded three times on or before draft night (1986, 1993 and 2017).
But Weltman wouldn’t rule anything out. Deadlines create movement, options and offers
that weren’t previously on the table until the last possible mo-ment.
“It’s our job to explore any avenue to get our team better,” Weltman said. “We’ll take as much time as we can to do that.”
Former Duke forward Paolo Banchero, Gonzaga big man Chet Holmgren and Auburn for-ward Jabari Smith Jr. have been considered the three prospects expected to draw consideration for the top pick since before the college basketball season end-ed.
Many rival executives and scouts have believed the No. 1 pick will come down to two players — Holmgren and Smith — since the Magic won the draft lottery.
But the Magic have brought in various players throughout their draft board for workouts in Orlando to get a closer look at them ahead of Thursday.
“The conversation doesn’t just stay on that pick because we have to be prepared to jump around,” Weltman said. “We have to be prepared for conver-sations to become real. It’s not like we’re just talking about the top two or three guys.”
The Magic also have two sec-ond-round picks, Nos. 32 and 35.
Weltman acknowledged they’ve considered consolidat-ing those picks by attempting to trade into the back end of the first round or other avenues.
There will be limited playing opportunities for an Orlando team that could have around 10 players under the age of 25 on the roster for next season.
Orlando Magic keeping options open with No. 1
pick in NBA draft
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Orlando Magic President of Basketball Operations Jeff Weltman held a pre-draft media availability on Monday.
Des BielerThe Washington Post
On their fourth anniversary, Brittney Griner was unable to speak with her wife for the first time in months because there was no one at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow available to connect a phone call between them, Griner’s wife said Monday.
The call had been set up two weeks earlier, Cherelle Griner told the Associated Press. They haven’t spoken directly since Brittney Griner, one of the WNBA’s most prominent players, was arrested in February at an airport near Moscow on drug charges.
“I was distraught. I was hurt. I was done, fed up,” Cherelle Griner said of her emotions after the conversation with her wife failed to mate-rialize. She told the AP she initially suspected Russian officials had interfered with the call but said she learned Monday from Brittney Gri-ner’s lawyers that her own country was respon-sible for the error.
According to the lawyers, Brittney Griner had tried phoning her wife 11 times, using a number she had been given at the embassy that was meant to be patched through to Cherelle Griner in Phoenix. However, the date for the call fell on a Saturday, and the embassy did not have staff on hand to make a connection, Cher-elle Griner told the AP.
“I find it unacceptable, and I have zero trust in our government right now,” Griner said. “If I can’t trust you to catch a Saturday call outside of business hours, how can I trust you to actu-ally be negotiating on my wife’s behalf to come home? Because that’s a much bigger ask than to catch a Saturday call.”
The State Department issued a statement of regret (via the AP) that “Brittney Griner was un-able to speak with her wife because of a logisti-cal error.”
“Imagine the heartbreak,” Brittney Griner’s agent, Lindsay Kagawa Colas, wrote on Twitter. “123 days w/out hearing her voice. Holding out
hope for a call. Finally getting that call, just to have it keep ringing.
“My heart breaks into pieces every time I think of it - but it’s nothing compared to the re-ality BG and her family are enduring.”
The WNBA’s players union said Monday it was “crushed” at the missed opportunity for Brittney Griner to talk with her wife. Tagging President Joe Biden in a tweet, the union called on him to meet with Cherelle Griner and secure the return of the 31-year-old center “so they can speak to one another in person.”
Saying it was “glad” that Biden was able to celebrate his 45th wedding anniversary with the first lady, Jill Biden, this past weekend in Rehoboth Beach, Del., the union added,
“Whether you’ve been married for 4 years or 45, anniversaries are a big deal.”
Cherelle Griner told the AP that while she re-mained hopeful for a meeting with the presi-dent, it was “starting to feel like a no.”
The U.S. government declared last month that Brittney Griner was being “wrongfully de-tained” by Russia and pledged to “continue to undertake efforts to provide appropriate sup-port” to her. Griner’s February arrest, for what Russian authorities said was an attempt to ille-gally bring vape cartridges containing hashish oil into the country after a flight from New York, came as tensions with the United States grew amid the then-impending invasion of Ukraine.
Cherelle Griner, a recent law school
graduate, had described her wife in May as “a political pawn” and said she had been in con-tact with Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
“I was grateful for the call,” she said then. “You say she’s top priority, but I want to see it. I feel like to see it would be me seeing BG on U.S. soil.”
At the time, a Russian court had ordered Gri-ner’s pretrial detainment to be extended until mid-June. Her detainment was reportedly ex-tended again until July 2.
In addition to playing for the WNBA’s Phoe-nix Mercury, which she helped to the league title in 2014, Griner is also a member of a team in the Russian Premier League. UMMC Ekater-inburg’s season ended in April, approximately a week before the WNBA tipped off its 2022 campaign.
The WNBA announced then that the initials of Griner, a seven-time all-star and two-time U.S. Olympic gold medalist, and her jersey number of 42 would be displayed on the side-lines of all 12 of its teams’ courts. Mercury play-ers have worn shirts in warm-ups bearing the message, “We are BG,” and similar shirts were worn by members of the Boston Celtics during the NBA Finals.
“As a collective, we wanted to come out and show our support for Brittney Griner,” Boston’s Jaylen Brown said this month. “She’s been over there for an extended amount of time, and we feel like enough is enough.”
On Monday, Cherelle Griner said the planned phone call represented “such a big moment because this would have been the first time where I truly could tell if she’s OK.” She noted that she has had to rely on the word of others who have been able to interact with Brittney Griner since the initial detainment.
“This would have been the first time for me to actually just hear her in real time,” Cherelle Griner said, “and to truly know if she’s OK or to know if she’s seconds away from not being in existence anymore.”
Brittney Griner’s wife says U.S. Embassy failed to facilitate phone call
JOE CAMPOREALE/USA TODAY
Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner (42) shoots against the Chicago Sky during the first half of game two of the 2021 WNBA Finals at Footprint Center on Oct. 13.
Greg CoteMiami Herald
Englishman Matt Fitzpatrick, who is 27 but would still get carded in a pub, hit the shot of his life from the 18th fairway Sunday and minutes later was hugging his mum and dad — the U.S. Open victory his in Brookline, Massachusetts. His first major win was also his first professional win on American soil.
Sweet story.For a minute, golf almost seemed nor-
mal again.Golf is anything but.Brooks Koepka, one of the PGA Tour
loyalists (at least for now), said a “black cloud” hovered over this U.S. Open, the first battlefield, really, in the sport’s sudden civil war. The cloud is there because Saudi Arabian megamillions, ding business as the upstart LIV Golf Invitational Series, is betting on greed and winning.
Bryson DeChambeau is one of the de-fectors. His agent, Brad Falkoff: “Profes-sional golf as we know it is changing., and it’s happening quickly.”
He could be talking about sports in gen-eral, because what we are seeing coming out of the pandemic, all around, is the big-gest tumult in sports history.
College football teams hop from one conference to another with regularity now, as players flood the transfer portal. The new Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) rules take a sledgehammer to the last quaint no-tion of amateurism at the collegiate level. The grip of the NCAA disintegrates before us.
The Olympics and individual sport gov-erning bodies grapple with the growing is-sue of transgender athletes. Just Monday, FINA, which rules swimming, drew back-lash for its new “gender inclusion policy” that bans biological men from competing in women’s events — as Penn swimmer Lia Thomas has with such success — unless they had transitioned before age 12.
A European Super League led by pow-ers Barcelona, Juventus and Real Madrid threatened to disrupt and redefine inter-national soccer until collapsing under its own weight, the threat dormant, not disap-peared.
Sports is all over the map on how to han-dle athletes from Russia and Belarus in the wake of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. Wimbledon has banned such players, in-cluding the world’s No. 1-ranked man. No such ban in the NHL, where Tampa Bay’s Russian goalkeeper is in the Stanley Cup Final.
Athlete empowerment embodied by LeBron James and others frays at the very notion as free agency. Mental health is a growing issue in all sports. NFTs are a new revenue stream.
Now, as nobody seems bothered by the NBA’s massive financial ties to China and the next FIFA World Cup plays out this fall in human rights-violating Qatar, the PGA Tour begins to rend at its seams as the lure of Saudi riches buys golfers willing to sell their souls by engaging in that kingdom’s blatant sportswashing.
The challenge to the PGA Tour makes one wonder about the ability of the ATP and WTA tours in tennis, for example, to fend off a similar hostile takeover. What prevents world’s richest man Elon Musk from seeing what’s happening in a golf as a fun opportunity in tenns? Nothing, is the short answer.
It is happening in golf despite the obvi-ous deterrent:
Saudi Arabia has abhorrent laws crimi-nalizing the LGBTQ community. The CIA believes the Saudi government mur-dered Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The group 9/11 Families Unit-ed sent a sharply critical letter to Phil Mick-elson, Dustin Johnson and other promi-nent defectors to LIV Golf reminding that Saudi Arabian ties to the 9/11 catastrophe of 2001 included the fact 15 of 19 hijack
pilots were Saudi.The PGA Tour and commissioner Jay
Monahan have drawn mostly praise for taking a hard line against the LIV defectors, an us-or-them-but-not-both edict that in-cluded indefinite suspensions of the defec-tors who played in the inaugural LIV event outside London last week.
The U.S. Open, independent of the PGA Tour, allowed the defectors to compete this past week, but, interestingly, only four of 15 who did made the cut in Brookline.
Whether the four golf majors will fall in line with the Tour against the LIV defectors remains to be seen. As does the golf war’s impact on the beloved Ryder Cup. Now LIV commissioner Greg Norman says the rogue tour will apply for Official World Golf Ranking points, which would be a major step toward legitimizing it.
The bitterness between PGA Tour loyal-ist players and those volunteering as Saudi pawns for the guaranteed money showed when loyalists Rory McIlroy won the PGA Tour event preceding the Open.
He made an emphasis to note with de-light that, with the win, he surpassed Nor-man in career Tour victories.
Golf is an unlikely landscape for a civil war.
This is the gentleman’s game, one of de-corum, tradition, “Quiet Please” signs and reverent adherence to persnickety rules.
Money talks, though. Check that. It screams. And it is a common denominator across the tumult in sports.
In golf now, the money is screaming so loud a man might misplace his soul chas-ing it. All it took for Mickelson was $200 mil-lion from the Saudis, guaranteed, as a sign-on bonus. Johnson sold out for $125 mill.
When the money behind LIV Golf is this loud and the well of it this deep, well, the civil war has only just begun.
No ‘Quiet Please’ sign will stop the noise an obscenity of riches can make.
‘Black cloud’ over U.S. Open is golf’s civil war in a time of revolution for sports overall
Erika LeFlouriaThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Landry Fields is proof that a lot can happen in a short time. In just under a decade, he has worked his way from being a player to a decision-maker.
Fields began his NBA play-ing career in 2010 after being drafted as the 39th overall pick out of Stanford. Fields spent five years playing with the Knicks and Raptors un-til a nerve issue affecting his shooting elbow cut his play-ing career short in 2016.
Since his playing career ended, Fields has climbed the NBA ranks working with the Spurs, where he served as a college scout and the
general manager of the G League’s Austin Spurs, and now the Hawks.
Two years after assuming the role as the assistant gen-eral manager for the Hawks, where he worked closely alongside general manager and team president Travis Schlenk, Fields has been promoted to be the Hawks’ next general manager. The title will become official July 1. Schlenk will retain his role and most of his responsibili-ties.
“Being under Travis the past couple seasons and see-ing how he envisions this whole thing to be, it’s truly inspiring,” Fields said Mon-day, representing the Hawks
in a pre-draft news confer-ence. “And I’m grateful that he’s given me the opportu-nity to help them in that and really empowered me to, to help bring it to where he ul-timately wants it to go and take into my input to see if that’s the same vision we have.”
Fields sees the game from a different lens. Being just a few years away from playing the game and still the same age as some of the top tal-ents on the court now, he can ultimately help the Hawks during the 2022 draft as they look to return as a top-con-tending team next season, just a year after making the Eastern Conference finals.
“I think it’s a matter of perspective,” Fields said. “I think everyone has experi-ences, they have certain cul-tures and traditions that they come from that help piece together how we’re looking at anything, whether it’s a big decision on the player, or it’s just where we want to be as a front office. Hopeful-ly, at the end of the day, my perspective is taken into ac-count with everyone else’s.”
Building a great organiza-tion happens just as much off the court as it does on the court. While his new posi-tion doesn’t officially begin for two weeks, Fields has al-ready begun looking to make an internal difference.
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PURPOSE: THE FILING OF REVISED RATES TO P.S.C. NO. 220 ELECTRICITY,P.S.C. NO. 214 STREETLIGHTING, and P.S.C. NO. 219 GAS TARIFFS TOCOMPLY WITH THE COMMISSION’S ORDER DATED JANUARY 20,2022 IN P.S.C. CASES 20-E-0380 AND 20-G-0381.
TEXT: Notice is hereby given that Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation d/b/a National Grid has filed revised rates with the Public Service Commission to comply with the Commission’s order dated January 20, 2022. These revised rates become effective July 1, 2022.
The tables listed below show a comparison between the Company’s current
rates and rates effective July 1, 2022.
Electric Rates
Service Classification No. 1 – Residential
Current Rates Rates Effective July1, 2022
Basic Service Charge $17.33 $17.33
Distribution Delivery Charge per kWh $0.06440 $0.06744
Service Classification No. 1C – Time of Use Residential
Current Rates Rates Effective July 1, 2022
Basic Service Charge $30.62 $30.62
Distribution Delivery Charge per kWh $0.03610 $0.03693
Service Classification No. 2 – Non-Demand Small General Service
Current Rates Rates Effective July 1, 2022
Basic Service Charge $21.02 $21.02
Distribution Delivery per kWh $0.07187 $0.07596
Service Classification No. 2 – Demand Small General Service
Current Rates Rates Effective July 1, 2022
Basic Service Charge $53.57 $53.57
Distribution Delivery per kW $12.93 $13.46
Service Classification No. 3 – Secondary Large General Service
Current Rates Rates Effective July 1, 2022
Basic Service Charge $575.00 $625.00
Distribution Delivery per kW $11.13 $11.38
Service Classification No. 3 – Primary Large General Service
Current Rates Rates Effective July 1, 2022
Basic Service Charge $600.00 $650.00
Distribution Delivery per kW $9.96 $10.30
Service Classification No. 3 – Sub Transmission/Transmission Large General Service
Current Rates Rates Effective July 1, 2022
Basic Service Charge $950.00 $1,050.00
Distribution Delivery per kW $3.02 $3.15
Service Classification No. 3 A– Secondary/Primary Large General Service
Current Rates Rates Effective July 1, 2022
Basic Service Charge $2,500.00 $2,750.00
Distribution Delivery per kW $11.02 $11.42
Service Classification No. 3 A – Sub Transmission Large General Service
Current Rates Rates Effective July 1, 2022
Basic Service Charge $3,000.00 $3,350.00
Distribution Delivery per kW $3.83 $3.98
Service Classification No. 3 A– Transmission Large General Service
Current Rates Rates Effective July 1, 2022
Basic Service Charge $6,300.00 $6,900.00
Distribution Delivery per kW $3.60 $3.89
Copies of the amendments to P.S.C. No. 220 Electricity are available for public inspection and can be obtained by writing National Grid, Regulation and Pricing Department, A-4, 300Erie Boulevard West, Syracuse, New York 13202 or on the Company’s website at:
http://www.nationalgridus.com.
Service Classification No. 1 – Private Lighting
Current Rates Rates Effective July 1, 2022
Distribution Delivery Charge per kWh
$0.09231 $0.09158
Service Classification No. 2/5 – Street Lighting
Current Rates Rates Effective July 1, 2022
Distribution Delivery Charge per kWh
$0.09231 $0.09158
Service Classification No. 3/6 – Street Lighting
Current Rates Rates Effective July 1, 2022
Distribution Delivery Charge per kWh
$0.06340 $0.06287
Service Classification No. 4 – Traffic Controls
Current Rates Rates Effective July 1, 2022
Distribution Delivery Charge per kWh
$0.01151 $0.01143
Copies of the amendments to P.S.C. No. 214 Electricity are available for public inspection and can be obtained by writing National Grid, Regulation and Pricing Department, A-4, 300Erie Boulevard West, Syracuse, New York 13202 or on the Company’s website at:
http://www.nationalgridus.com.
Gas Rates
Service Classification No. 1 – Residential
Monthly usage Current Rates Rates Effective July1, 2022
First 3 therms or less $20.75 $21.40
Next 47 therms, per therm $0.56866 $0.59964
Over 50 therms, per therm $0.12332 $0.13003
Service Classification No. 2 – Small General Service
Monthly usage Current Rates Rates Effective July1, 2022
First 3 therms or less $26.00 $26.00
Next 277 therms, per therm $0.35900 $0.37571
Next 4,720 therms, per therm $0.21634 $0.22641
Over 5,000 therms, per therm $0.07717 $0.08077
Service Classification No. 5 – Firm Gas Sales and Transportation Service
Monthly usage Current Rates Rates Effective July1, 2022
First 100 therms or less $651.00 $684.00
Over 100 therms, per therm $0.08288 $ 0.08601
Service Classification No. 6 – Large Volume Interruptible Delivery Service
Monthly usage Current Rates Rates Effective July1, 2022
First 100 therms or less $581.27 $581.27
Over 100 therms, per therm $0.02643 $0.04398
Service Classification No. 7 – Small Volume Firm Sales and Transportation Service
Monthly usage Current Rates Rates Effective July1, 2022
First 2,100 therms or less $350.00 $350.00
Next 400 therms, per therm $0.34599 $0.38778
Next 1,700 therms, per therm $0.26027 $0.29067
Over 4,200 therms, per therm $0.10724 $0.11869
Service Classification No. 8 – Gas Sales and Transportation Service with Standby Sales Service
Monthly usage Current Rates Rates Effective July1, 2022
First 100 therms or less $1,550.00 $1,600.00
Next 99,900 therms, per therm $0.08438 $0.08845
Next 400,000 therms, per therm $0.07941 $0.08325
Over 500,000 therms, per therm $0.06853 $0.07182
Service Classification No. 12 – Distributed GenerationLess than 250,000 therms per year
Monthly usage Current Rates Rates Effective July1, 2022
First 3 therms or less $200.00 $200.00
Over 3 therms, per therm (Apr to Oct) $0.04444 $0.04621
Over 3 therms, per therm (Nov to Mar) $0.05771 $0.06108
Service Classification No. 12 – Distributed GenerationGreater than 250,000 but less than 1,000,000 therms per year
Monthly usage Current Rates Rates Effective July1, 2022
First 3 therms or less $500.00 $500.00
Over 3 therms, per therm (Apr to Oct) $0.04103 $0.04348
Over 3 therms, per therm (Nov to Mar) $0.05191 $0.05466
Service Classification No. 12 – Distributed GenerationGreater than 1,000,000 but less than 2,500,000 therms per year
Monthly usage Current Rates Rates Effective July1, 2022
First 100 therms or less $1,550.00 $1,550.00
Next 499,900 therms, per therm (Apr to Oct)
$0.03790 $0.04006
Next 499,900 therms, per therm(Nov to Mar)
$0.04811 $0.05086
Over 500,000 therms, per therm (Apr to Oct)
$0.03250 $0.03436
Over 500,000 therms, per therm (Nov to Mar)
$0.04125 $0.04361
Service Classification No. 12 – Distributed GenerationGreater than 2,500,000 therms per year
Monthly usage Current Rates Rates Effective July1, 2022
First 3 therms or less $1,550.00 $1,550.00
Over 3 therms, per therm (Apr to Oct) $0.00773 $0.00809
Over 3 therms, per therm (Nov to Mar) $0.00981 $0.01025
Demand charge per therm of MPDQ $0.78991 $0.82677
Service Classification No. 13 – Residential Distributed Generation
Monthly usage Current Rates Rates Effective July1, 2022
First 3 therms or less $28.00 $28.00
Over 3 therms, per therm $0.05245 $0.07206
Copies of the amendments to PSC No. 219 Gas are available for public inspection and can be obtained by writing National Grid, Regulation and Pricing Department, A-4, 300 Erie Boulevard West, Syracuse, NY 13202 or on the Company’s website at:
http://www.nationalgridus.com.
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ELECTRIC AND GAS RATES EFFECTIVE 7/1/2022
Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation filed revisions toits electric and gas rate schedules on November 29, 2021.The revisions implement rate changes approved by thePublic Service Commission which will be phased in overthree years, the second set of which will become effectiveJuly 1, 2022. The Company’s rate schedules are available atthe Company’s website (www.centralhudson.com).
ELECTRIC CHANGES
Monthly Electric Rates:
S.C. No. 1 – ResidentialCustomer Charge $19.50Energy Delivery Charge per kWh $0.09889
S.C. No. 2 – GeneralNon-Demand MeteredCustomer Charge $30.50Energy Delivery Charge per kWh $0.06536
Demand Metered – PrimaryCustomer Charge $450.00Energy Delivery Charge per kWh $0.00138
Demand Delivery Charge per kW $9.50Demand Metered – SecondaryCustomer Charge $110.00Energy Delivery Charge per kWh $0.00445Demand Delivery Charge per kW $12.29
S.C. No. 3 – Large Power PrimaryCustomer Charge $2,350.00Demand Delivery ChargeBasic Demand per kW $12.07Reactive Demand per Rkva $0.83
S.C. No. 6 – Time of Use ResidentialCustomer Charge $22.50Energy Delivery Charge per kWhOn-Peak $0.13082Off-Peak $0.04361
S.C. No. 6 – Time of Use Residential (5 Hour On-Peak)Customer Charge $22.50Energy Delivery Charge per kWhOn-Peak $0.10917Off-Peak $0.09478
S.C. No. 9 – Unmetered Traffic SignalsCharge per Signal Face $4.04
S.C. No. 13 – Large Power Substation & TransmissionCustomer ChargeSubstation $6,600.00Transmission $10,100.00Demand Delivery ChargeBasic Demand per kWSubstation $10.03Transmission $5.98Reactive Demand per Rkva $0.83
In addition, effective July 1, 2022 Merchant FunctionCharges, the rates for various fixtures and/or servicesprovided under Service Classification Nos. 5 – Area Lightingand 8 – Street Lighting, as well as the rates for standbyservice provided under Service Classification No. 14 shallalso be revised.
Effective July 1, 2022, an Electric Bill Credit (EBC) will return$9.5 million to customers.
NATURAL GAS CHANGES
Monthly Gas Rates:
Effective July 1, 2022, the gas rate design for ServiceClassification Nos. 1, 2, 6, 12 &
13 reflects the second year of a planned five-year phase-outof gas declining block rates. A page on the Company’swebsite devoted to the gas rate structure change is availableat the following link:
(www.CentralHudson.com/GasRateStructure).
S.C. Nos. 1 & 12 – Residential200 cubic feet or less $24.25Next 4,800 cubic feet $1.3890*Additional $0.8113*
S.C. Nos. 2, 6 & 13 – Commercial/Industrial200 cubic feet or less $39.00Next 9,800 cubic feet $0.6185*Next 490,000 cubic feet $0.5106*Additional $0.4265**(Rates per 100 cubic feet)
S.C. No. 11 – Transmission100,000 cubic feet or less $4,500.00Additional $0.0182*Mcf per MDQ $8.93
S.C. No. 11 – Distribution100,000 cubic feet or less $1,800.00Additional $0.0391*Mcf per MDQ $20.68
S.C. No. 11 – Distribution Large Mains100,000 cubic feet or less $7,300.00Additional $0.0256*Mcf per MDQ $14.99*(Rates per 100 cubic feet)
S.C. No. 11 – Electric GenerationCustomer Charge $1,900.00Mcf per MDQ $14.06
In addition, effective July 1, 2022, Merchant FunctionCharges will be revised.
Effective July 1, 2022, a Gas Bill Credit (GBC) will return $3.2million to customers.
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PHILADELPHIA — It’s never too late to make a fresh impression.
Philadelphia landed a bid to be one of the 11 cities in the U.S. chosen by FIFA to host World Cup games when the tournament vis-its North America in 2026. So did Dallas and Boston, but hey, everyone makes mistakes.
None of the lucky 11 needs this sort of boost more than Philly. Plagued by prob-lems -- income disparity and poverty, politi-cal corruption, homelessness, gun violence -- the town’s stature is receding faster than Mayor Kenney’s hairline.
But Big Jim, who will leave office in 2024, helped his city land the biggest tournament in the world. Not coincidentally, the next gu-bernatorial race comes in 2026. We’ll leave it to you to decide whether this feather in his cap might, um, kick off a run that lands him in Harrisburg.
There are plenty of other inarguable bene-fits to having the eyes of the world turn to the Delaware Valley. 1. Philly fans, rebranded
It would be ironic if the sport with the planet’s worst fans rebrands the city with America’s worst fans. Soccer hooligans make Eagles fans look like pussycats.
Still, from cheering Michael Irvin’s ambu-lance, to fighting outsiders, to eating horse poop after Super Bowl LII, football fans in this city have shown little brotherly love and less common sense. But if those football fans welcome futbol fans with proper grace and decorum, that will go a long way toward changing the town’s image. 2. FDR Park, rei-magined
Nothing the World Cup brings will deliver a more lasting and practical result than the $250 million makeover of FDR Park, adjacent to the sports complex. I see it every week -- a vast, sad, unappealing waste of space. It has long been underdeveloped, undermanaged, and underused.
The World Cup will make sure that, in a city notorious for municipal delays and dis-appointments, the project gets done no mat-ter who holds the power in City Hall.
The project was already approved before FIFA chose Philadelphia as one of the 16 sites on the continent -- there are two in Canada and three in Mexico -- and the original plan called for 12 multipurpose athletic fields, but those fields were all supposed to be made of artificial turf. However, part of Philadel-phia’s bid promised that two of the fields
would be natural grass, to accommodate FIFA requirements. That means those fields would have first-class restrooms, a press box, food stands, and storage areas.
Some people have complained about this. Some people will complain about anything.
In fact, some South Philly residents have resisted the project from the outset, and that resistance was redoubled when Philly landed the World Cup. FDR Park’s raggedy, swampy golf course closed in 2019 and quickly was reclaimed by nature, creating a spontaneous green space that residents rejoiced in having during the depths of the COVID-19 pandem-ic. The plans call for a managed green space in the heart of the park designed to modu-late the frequent flooding surrounded by the athletic fields, with safer, smarter trails and more meadow space.
It has been 348 acres of potential. The World Cup will assure that, sooner than later, it will be 348 acres of urban oasis. 3. Jim Cur-tin and Union, celebrated
Named interim manager of a mediocre
MLS club in 2014, Curtin was considered a local-boy place holder until the Union po-nied up the dough for a big name. Except, Curtin excelled. Since 2018 he has been, by far, the best pro coach in Philadelphia. Since 2018 the Union has been, by far, the best pro team in Philadelphia.
Most mainstream fans didn’t know quite how good Curtin and the boys had gotten until December, and controversy, and disap-pointment. A COVID outbreak sidelined 11 players just before the Eastern Conference final -- absences the team was unable to overcome in a 2-1 loss to the eventual MLS champion, New York City Football Club. Curtin, an Oreland native, was at once out-raged, eloquent, and gracious. The team and the league could have asked for no better ambassador.
He won coach of the year last season, got a two-year contract extension, and was rec-ognized as one of the game’s rising stars. The U.S. men’s national team might be in his fu-ture, as well as a job with a European club.
In the meantime, Curtin will be Mr. Soc-cer in Philadelphia. Every television and ra-dio station will call upon him, every news outlet will use him as their resident expert. His players will become more recognizable celebrities, as they sit tied atop the Eastern Conference. Subaru Park, the best stadium in Philadelphia history, will become a desti-nation.
The next four years will only enhance the team’s reputation and make the coach’s star rise higher. 4. Economy, boosted
The projected numbers of visitors, the cash influx, and the new-jobs numbers are absurd: 500,000 people won’t visit Philly for the World Cup, and they won’t spend $250 million, and there won’t be 3,500 new jobs created. Those numbers generally assume mostly visitors will come and that locals won’t participate; assume that all of those hoped-for visitors will spend retail for every-thing from hotels to T-shirts to cheesesteaks; and imply that those jobs will last more than the two weeks the Cup is in town.
That’s OK. Entities like Philadelphia Soc-cer 2026 exist to inflate both numbers and hopes. The bottom line is, Philly won’t have to build roads, stadiums, or hotels, so the World Cup will mean profit during late spring and early summer. 5. Soccer’s hot, getting hotter
“By 2026, soccer or football will be the number one sport in this part of the world.”
FIFA president Gianni Infantino dropped that dollop of hyperbole when he announced the host cities Thursday evening in New York, a melting-pot metropolis where there are more Jets and Giants fans than soccer fans and players combined.
But while he said this in the heat of a mo-mentous occasion, it’s impossible to ignore the freight train of popularity that soccer is riding. It’s the second-fastest growing sport in America behind lacrosse, but with more than 7 million kids playing soccer every year, lax lags behind at a 7-to-1 clip. It’s already eclipsed hockey in popularity in America.
Will it be No. 1 by 2026? Of course not, and it never will be. There will always be another Tom Brady or LeBron James to anchor Amer-ican sports fans, but with its endless shifts and endless games, baseball has become un-watchable.
As the population diversifies, could soccer become America’s game? No.
But Mike Trout better watch out.
World Cup 2026 can change Philadelphia’s reputation and profile
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Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and members of the Philadelphia sports dignitary cheer after learning Philadelphia was named a World Cup 2026 host city at LOVE Park in Center City on June 16.
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By Stella Wilder
Born today, you have been endowed with remarkable talents that can propel you to the very top of your chosen profession — as long as you start young and make decisions that al-low you to develop those talents to the fullest. It’s the choices themselves that may be difficult at times, for you are nothing if not curious and studious, and you see the value of what’s before you. You may have trouble choosing one path over another in the moment that a decision is required of you. Fortunately, you will surely learn how to make such decisions without hav-ing to plot and plan too much — which would have been your preferred practice when young.
You have great charm and charisma, and though you may prefer to spend time alone, you are quite adept at mixing and mingling with others when you have to.
Also born on this date are: Meryl Streep, ac-tress; Cyndi Lauper, singer; Kris Kristofferson, singer and actor; Carson Daly, TV host; Freddie Prinze, actor and comedian; Lindsay Wagner, actress; Bruce Campbell, actor; Ed Bradley, journalist.
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.
THURSDAY, JUNE 23CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Giving some-
one a taste of their own medicine may sound like an option today, but you’re likely to open up a wound that is very slow to heal.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — A little research tells you that you have more choices available to you today than you had originally thought. A change is feasible.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Someone close
to you may object today to plans you made some time ago. This is something that will require some careful negotiation.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — See if you can channel another’s energy or spirit today in order to tackle a problem that seems, right now, to be over your head.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — The solution you are seeking to that stubborn domestic prob-lem is right in front of you — and today you’ll see it for what it really is.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — There are more important things than punctuality, cer-tainly, but being on time is a very good way to start this very busy day.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — A project you’re eager to start proves more complicated when you take those first few important steps. You have time to retreat and regroup.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You may be reminded today just how important it is to main-tain something of a routine as you work slowly toward a goal that is now in sight.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Something just over the horizon is likely to require prepara-tion on your part starting today. You know what you’ll be called upon to do.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Take the time to assess your performance with care today, and you’ll be able to do much better tomorrow — if you’re honest with yourself.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — A simple game of chance can be manipulated in such a way to-day that you increase your odds in a manner that surprises almost everyone around you.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You can do what needs to be done today without attracting too much attention — which will prove helpful if you have to bend the rules.
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Dear Abby,My husband was forced into sex at the age
of 12 by an older female. He has expressed how humiliated he felt and that he made it his mission to never feel inadequate again. He gets his “knowledge” of satisfying a woman through porn. I have tried to explain to him that what he’s seeing is only a per-formance put on for the male viewer.
I have tried more than once to show him what really makes a woman “tick,” but he insists I don’t know what I’m talking about and that I’m lying to him! I have tried every gentle approach to avoid hurting his feelings. I know from fam-ily members’ comments about his bedroom having been a “revolving door” for women that he probably didn’t use much discern-ment in his past.
How can I move forward when I feel like he’s stuck in the past? I know being sexually abused causes all kinds of trauma. He insists he’s over it, but his actions tell me other-wise. I’m pretty sure I’m not his first unsat-isfied partner because all his other relation-ships have ended because they were “crazy, stupid, fat, unfaithful ...” I don’t want to give up on him. Please help.
Patient Wife in FloridaTalking to your husband must be like talk-
ing to a wall. Solid marriages are built on trust and good communication, and your husband seems capable of neither. I admire your per-severance. The fact that he may have never had counseling to deal with what he went through as a child is regrettable. It could help even now.
A licensed sex therapist might be able to help your husband see that you are not lying to him when you tell him that what pleases
one woman might not please another. If you can’t make him understand what makes you “tick,” then cross your fingers and hope the therapist can get the message across.
Dear Abby,My 40-year-old nephew,
“Randy,” hasn’t spoken with his sister, “Elyse,” in five years because of a disagree-ment about the resolution of their father’s trust. When they visited me four years
ago, he wouldn’t speak to her. Elyse and her husband later announced
they were adopting a baby. Randy visited me alone six months later, and I suggested, without success, that he put this aside until after the adoption. During the adoption, she became pregnant and had a second child. Randy still hasn’t seen or talked with her or his niece and nephew. Our relationship has deteriorated since.
Randy and Elyse tried a mediator last year, again without success. (I should men-tion he doesn’t speak with his mother, ei-ther.) He has dodged any further discussion about the situation. I’m at a loss. We were all so close, and I miss him, but I can’t accept his actions anymore. Any suggestions?
Uncle in PainIn some families, blood is thicker than wa-
ter. Your nephew appears to feel that money is thicker than blood. As much as you might wish to do it, you can’t change him. Because his unwillingness to relent is causing you pain, limit your interactions with him and maintain your relationship with Elyse, the children and Randy’s mother.
Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O.
Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
Man’s history as abuse victim impacts marriage
DEAR ABBY
JEANNE
PHILLIPS
Dark Side of the Horse
Goren bridge
FORTUNE FAVORS THE BOLD
Neither vulnerable, South deals
NORTH ♠ A J 7 ♥ K Q 8 6 4 ♦ 6 ♣ 9 7 3 2
WEST EAST♠ Q 9 6 ♠ K 10♥ A J 2 ♥ 9 7 5♦ Q 10 9 8 7 5 ♦ J 4♣ 5 ♣ K Q 10 8 6 4
SOUTH ♠ 8 5 4 3 2 ♥ 10 3 ♦ A K 3 2 ♣ A J
The bidding:SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST1♠ 3♦ 4♠ All pass
Opening lead: Five of ♣
North’s decision to force to game was reasonable. It led to a terrible contract because
most of South’s values were in diamonds – West’s suit. That also negated much of the value of North’s singleton. Still, as the experts say, just because a contract is hopeless is no reason to go down in it.
South captured East’s queen of clubs with the ace at trick one and led a low heart. Dummy’s king won as West ducked his ace. South led a diamond to his ace, East contributing the jack, and led his remaining heart. West rose with his ace and shifted to the queen of diamonds. South, now certain that the opening lead had been a singleton, discarded a club from dummy and won in hand with the king.
A spade to the ace was followed by the queen of hearts. Declarer discarded his remaining club, crossed his fingers, and led a low spade. East won with his king and led a high club, ruffed by South. West had no winning play. Whether he ruffed or discarded, South could ruff one diamond in dummy and discard the other one on a good heart.
South’s unlikely contract had come home. North was seen in the bar later bragging about his aggressive bid.
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