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Volume 238, No. 114 FRIDAY, JULY 8, 2022

Serving Columbia and Dutchess counties since 1785

SPORTS

LOCAL ROUNDUP: Rattlers beat Knights; Storm widen first place lead in HRCBL

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OBITUARY

James Caan, actor who played Sonny Corleone in “The Godfather,” dies at 82

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REGION

Price of first-class Mail Forever stamps going up from 58 to 60 cents Sunday

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Region ........................A3

Opinion .......................A4

Local ...........................A5

State/Nation ................A6

Obituaries ...................A6

Sports .........................B1

Classified .............. B5-B6

Comics/Advice ...... B7-B8

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By Ted RemsnyderColumbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — Convicted murderer William Maxwell is set to be released from state prison three decades after he was sentenced to 16 years to life for killing Hudson mother Penny Almstead.

Maxwell, 56, will be released on parole imminently from

Woodbourne Correctional Facility, according to the New York State Department of Cor-rections and Community Su-pervision (DOCCS).

“William Maxwell appeared before the Board of Parole on March 15, 2022 and was sub-sequently granted an open date,” DOCCS Spokesper-son Rachel Connors said in a

statement on Thursday. “Hav-ing been granted an earliest release date of July 11, 2022, or earlier, Maxwell will be re-leased upon completion of his community preparation, which could be before, on, or after July 11.”

Columbia County Judge Jonathan Nichols ruled May 2 that Maxwell will be required

to register as a level-three sex offender upon his release, the level which represents the highest level of risk to public safety.

In February 1989, Maxwell pleaded guilty to second-de-gree murder and two counts of first-degree aggravated

City preps for murderer Maxwell’s release

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Convicted murderer William Maxwell in court in 1989. Maxwell is set to be released from state prison after serving 33 years for the murder of Penny Almstead. See RELEASED A2

PHOTO FROM CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

Health officials stress the importance of checking for ticks.

By Bill WilliamsColumbia-Greene Media

Health officials in Columbia and Greene counties are stress-ing tick safety, after a Columbia County resident was diagnosed with a possible case of Powas-san virus, and a large number of Lyme disease cases.

The Powassan virus is spread to humans by the bite of an in-fected tick. Although still rare, the number of reported cases infected with the Powassan virus has increased in recent years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Preven-tion.

Most cases in the United States occur in the Northeast and Great Lakes regions from late spring through mid-fall when ticks are most active. There are no vaccines to prevent or medicines to treat Powassan virus disease, according to the CDC.

The Columbia County De-partment of Health is awaiting confirmation of a possible case of a county resident infected with Powassan viru, said Patri-cia Abitabile, public informa-tion officer for the department.

The rare virus can cause symptoms ranging from mild flu-like symptoms to life-threatening encephalitis

Possible case of Powassan virus in Columbia County

See POWASSAN A2

By Raymond PignoneColumbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — Etsy, a global manufacturing, marketing and shipping company, is closing its Hudson facility, the mayor’s office confirmed Thursday.

The plant is expected to shut its doors for good in Sep-tember, Hudson Mayor Kamal Johnson said Thursday.

Etsy’s Hudson facility was base-office for approximately 40 employees in total, an Etsy spokesperson confirmed in an email Thursday. Most of these employees were already primarily working from home, so now will just transition to a fully remote work model. The Hudson office will close in September 2022.

“The way we work and the way we use our offices have fundamentally shifted since our pre-pandemic days,” Etsy Chief Human Resources

Officer Kim Seymour. “Our hybrid work modes were de-veloped to encourage flex-ibility, autonomy and impact, enable us to attract and retain world-class talent, and con-tinue to place emphasis on nurturing our diverse and in-clusive culture.”

Utilization of the Hudson facility was extremely low and many employees there told the company that they would like to continue working re-motely, Seymour said.

“That’s why we made the decision to close our physi-cal office, transitioning our Hudson-based employees to our remote work mode. However, we remain deeply committed to the Hudson community. We are ensuring our employees are supported, able to work productively and can still effectively collaborate

Etsy closing Hudson facility, shifting to remote work

Bill Williams/Columbia-Greene Media

Etsy, which opened in Hudson in 2012, will close its doors in September and shift to an all-remote-work mode, company officials said Thursday.See CLOSING A2

with colleagues.”Reaction to the news of the

company’s impending closure was one of shock and sadness.

“It’s very disappointing and heartbreaking to learn the company will be leaving Hud-son,” Johnson said. “We had been planning to partner with them on things like hiring and other issues, so this is a great loss for us.”

The Etsy building at 359-361 Columbia St. is owned by Can-nonball Associates, LLC, whose

address is given as 93 Fraleigh Lane in Red Hook, according to Hudson city property records.

The Columbia Street address formerly housed the Cannon-ball Factory, named for its role as a manufacturer of explosives and ordnance during the Civil War, according to the PSA Ar-chitects website.

News of Etsy’s closing in Hudson caught Columbia Eco-nomic Development Corpora-tion President and CEO F. Mi-chael Tucker by surprise. Etsy is a good corporate neighbor and contributed much to the city’s economy by providing jobs, he said.

“We have benefited

gratefully over the years Etsy had an office presence in Hud-son and we are grateful for their ongoing commitment to their Hudson-based employees,” Tucker said.

Etsy produces and markets handmade summer cloth-ing and accessories, jewelry and accessories, furniture and shoes, home and living acces-sories, wedding and party ac-cessories, toys and entertain-ment accessories, art supplies and collectibles and craft sup-plies, Johnson said.

Etsy was founded June 18, 2005, by entrepreneur Rob Kalin and partners Chris Ma-guire and Haim Schoppik, in

Brooklyn, according to the

company’s website. Brooklyn

is the home of the company’s

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sexual abuse for the Oct. 11, 1987 slaying of Almstead, a mother of three.

Maxwell, who was 21 at the time of Almstead’s murder, told police that he assualted and sodomized the 27-year-old victim with a tire iron before dis-posing of her body in the Hud-son River.

Police recovered Almstead’s body near the river in Green-port.

Columbia County District Attorney Paul Czajka, who pros-ecuted the murder case against Maxwell in 1989, said that be-lieves Maxwell should not have been granted parole.

“I’m not happy that he’s been released to parole,” Czajka said Thursday. “I don’t believe that he’s capable of rehabilitation. Based on his conduct, with respect to his first offense, for which he was sentenced to pris-on, as well as the murder, I think he remains a danger.”

Maxwell was arrested at his State Street home in Hud-son less than 24 hours after Almstead’s body was found. Nine months prior, Maxwell had been released from state prison in Coxsackie after being convicted in August 1984 for at-tempted first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy.

Hudson Mayor Kamal John-son said Thursday the city was preparing for Maxwell’s re-lease, with the Hudson Police

Department monitoring the situation and formulating a plan for improved patrols.

“I don’t want to give too much away because it is a safety issue and we want to make sure that we’re handling things the correct way,” Johnson said. “But we are aware of his release and the police will be notified of what area he chooses to live in. We’re going to strategize on how to best support our community and make sure that it remains a safe community.”

Maxwell was sentenced by Columbia County Judge John Leaman on April 3, 1989 to a minimum sentence of 16 and two-thirds years to life in prison

for Almstead’s sexual assault and murder convictions. In court proceedings in February 1989, Maxwell told the court that on the morning of Oct. 11, 1987m he beat Almstead with a tire iron and “did a number on her” after leaving a Hudson bar at 2:30 a.m. with the victim.

Maxwell confessed that after Almstead became unconscious, he sexually assaulted the victim with the tire iron. Maxwell told the court that he threw Alm-stead’s body into the Hudson River when he saw a truck ap-proaching the murder scene.

“She was, like, gurgling, but it was my intention to get rid of her,” Maxwell said in court in

1989.Almstead’s body was sub-

sequently discovered by duck hunters near the river.

In November 1989, Columbia County Coroner Angelo Nero attributed Almstead’s death to “hemorrhage, shock and brain swelling due to multiple inju-ries.”

Considering the nature of Maxwell’s crimes, Johnson said the city would be on alert for Maxwell’s release.

“Given that I’ve gotten mul-tiple emails and calls from resi-dents who are fearful, we take every situation where our resi-dents’ safety is compromised seriously,” Johnson said.

Maxwell first became eligible for parole in January 2005. The mayor said he was not certain that Maxwell would be residing in Hudson when he is released from the state prison in Sullivan County.

“From what I heard, there are three possible places he could be released to,” Johnson said. “If he’s released to Hudson di-rectly, then we’ll know right away. But there’s no guarantee that he’ll be in Hudson. But re-gardless, we want to make sure that we’re doing everything we can to maintain the safety of our residents.”

Czajka praised Johnson for his vigilance regarding Max-well’s release.

“I commend Mayor Johnson for actively participating in this issue and seeking his continued incarceration,” Czajka said.

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Convicted murderer William Maxwell is set to be released from the Woodbourne Correctional Facility state prison.

(inflammation of the brain), Ab-itabile said.

The last known local case of Powassan virus occurred in Co-lumbia County in 2018, Abita-bile said.

The main concern of tick bites, though, is Lyme disease. As of June 30, Columbia County reports a total of 489 Lyme dis-ease cases, Abitabile said.

Greene County Public Health, which is also working on Lyme disease cases, reports that symptoms usually occur between three and 30 days af-ter the bite. The most common symptom is a red circular bull’s-eye rash.

To remove a tick that has bitten a host, grasp the tick with fine-point tweezers as close as possible to the skin, Greene County health officials said, while being careful not to squeeze, crush or puncture the body of the tick, which may contain infectious fluids. After

removing the tick, thoroughly disinfect the bite site and wash hands.

“In Columbia County, we have learned through years of experience, that a number of preventative measures can work together for protection against tick-borne diseases,” said Jack Mabb, Columbia County’s director of public health. “It is important for resi-dents to plan ahead before out-door activities, be mindful of exposure while outdoors and to remain vigilant in checking for

ticks, both while outdoors and afterward, for the best chance of prevention against tick-borne diseases.”

Health department officials offered tips for hikers before heading outside this summer.

- Wear light colored cloth-ing with a tight weave to spot ticks easily, as well as enclosed shoes, long pants and a long-sleeved shirt. Tuck the pant legs into socks or boots and shirt into pants.

- Check clothes and any ex-posed skin frequently for ticks

while outdoors.- Consider using insect repel-

lent, such as DEET.- Stay on cleared, well-trav-

eled trails. Walk in the center of trails. Avoid dense woods and bushy areas.

- Bathe or shower as soon as possible after going indoors (preferably within two hours) to wash off and more easily find ticks that may be on you.

- Do a final, full-body tick check at the end of the day (also check children and pets), and remove ticks promptly.

- Wear antiparasitic perme-thrin-treated clothing and foot-wear when in tick habitat.

State Department of Health and its partners routinely collect and analyze ticks from across the state to better understand the tick population, tick behav-ior and regional trends in dis-eases carried by ticks.

For more information about Powassan virus, Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses, visit the Columbia County Health Department website, the state Department of Health website or the Centers for Dis-ease Control.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Most events and meetings are cancelled or have been moved online due to the virus outbreak. Please call ahead to confirm.

Friday, July 8n Hudson Historic Preserva-

tion Commission 10 a.m. City Hall, 520 Warren St., Hudson, 518-828-1030

Saturday, July 9n Germantown History Depart-

ment 9 a.m.-noon 1767 Parson-age, 52 Maple Ave., Germantown 518-537-6687

Monday, July 11n Canaan Town Board 7 p.m.

Upstairs Town Hall, 1647 Route 5, Canaan 518-781-3144

n Citizens’ Climate Lobby Co-lumbia County Chapter 6 p.m. location varies (either Hudson or Chatham) 518-672-7901

n Copake Parks and Recreation Commission 7 p.m. Park Build-ing, Mountain View Road, Copake. 518-329-1234

n Hillsdale Planning Board 7:30 p.m. Town Hall, Main Street, Hillsdale 518-325-5073

n Hudson Common Council 7 p.m. at City Hall, 520 Warren St., Hudson, 518-828-1030

n Kinderhook Village Recre-ation Commission 7 p.m. Village Hall, 6 Chatham St., Kinderhook 518-758-9882

n Milan Town Board 7:30 p.m. Wilcox Memorial Town Hall, 20 Wilcox Circle, Milan 845-758-5133

n New Lebanon Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 14755 Route 22, New Lebanon 518-794-8888

n Philmont Village Board 7 p.m. Village Hall, 124 Main St., Philmont 518-672-7032

n Rhinebeck Town Board 6:45 p.m. Town Hall, 80 East Market St., Rhinebeck

n Taghkanic Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, Route 82, West Tagh-kanic 518-851-7638

n Tivoli Planning Board Work-shop 7 p.m. Historic Watts dePey-ster Hall, 1 Tivoli Commons, Tivoli 845-757-2021

Tuesday, July 12n Chatham Central School

District Board of Education 6 p.m. High School Library, Chatham 518-392-2400

n Chatham Planning Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 488 Route 295, Chatham 518-392-3262

n Copake Land Use Review Committee 7 p.m. Town Hall, 230 Mountain View Road, Copake 518-329-1234

n Copake Republican Club 7 p.m. at the Copake Town Hall, 230 Mountain View Road, Copake

n Germantown Town Board Workshop to receive public input on ARPA Funds and Kellner Com-munity Building 6:30 p.m. A Public Hearing on LL 1-2022 regarding adoption of amended zoning map will follow, followed by the Town Board’s regular monthly meeting. Town Hall, 50 Palatine Park Road, Germantown 518-537-6687 or via Zoom

n Hillsdale Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, Main Street, Hillsdale 518-325-5073

n Germantown Town Board 7 p.m. via Zoom All meeting and Zoom access information can be found on the Town website at https://germantownny.org/calen-dar-events/

n Hudson Planning Board 6 p.m. Hudson Hall, 327 Warren St., Hudson

n Kinderhook Village Climate Smart Community Task Force 7 p.m. Village Hall, 6 Chatham St., Kinderhook 518-758-9882

n Red Hook Town Board 7:30 p.m. Town Hall, 7340 South Broad-way, Red Hook 845-758-4606

n Rhinebeck Central School District Board of Education 7 p.m. High/Middle School Library, North Park Road, Rhinebeck 845-871-5500

n Rhinebeck Village Board 7 p.m. Village Hall, 76 East Market St., Rhinebeck 845-876-7015

n Taghkanic Planning Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, Route 82, West Taghkanic 518-851-7638, ext. 7

n Valatie Village Board 7:30 p.m. Village Office, Martin H. Glynn Building, 3211 Church St., Valatie 518-758-9806

Wednesday, July 13n Clermont Planning Board

7:30 p.m. Town Hall, 1795 Route 9, Clermont 518-537-6868

n Columbia County Board of Supervisors Full Board 7:30 p.m. 401 State St., Hudson. 518-828-1527

n Copake Hamlet Revitalization Task Force 7 p.m. Town Hall, 230 Mountain View Road, Copake 518-329-1234

n Ghent Zoning Board of Ap-peals 7 p.m. Town Hall, 2306 Route 66, Ghent 518-392-4644

n Kinderhook Village Board 7 p.m. Village Hall, 6 Chatham St., Kinderhook 518-758-9882

n Milan Zoning Board of Ap-peals 7 p.m. Wilcox Memorial Town Hall, 20 Wilcox Circle, Milan 845-758-5133

By Bill WilliamsColumbia-Greene Media

For the second time in less than a year, the cost of a first-class Mail Forever stamp is increasing.

The U.S. Postal Service is raising the cost of a stamp from 58 cents to 60 cents be-ginning Sunday.

The last increase was Aug. 29, 2021, when the price rose from 55 cents to 58 cents.

When the increase was pro-posed in April, postal officials said first-class mail prices would rise approximately 6.5%, which is lower than the Bureau of Labor Statistics an-nual inflation rate of 7.9% as of the end of February.

The price changes reflect a judicious implementation of the Postal Service’s pricing au-thority provided by the Postal Regulatory Commission, offi-cials said.

The proposed mailing ser-vices price changes include: letters (1 oz.) rising from 58 cents to 60 cents, letters (me-tered 1 oz.) increasing from 53 cents to 57 cents, letters, addi-tional ounce(s) going up from 20 cents to 24 cents, Domestic Postcards rising from 40 cents to 44 cents, and international letters (1 oz.) increasing from $1.30 to $1.40.

The Postal Service will also implement price adjustments for special services products including certified mail, post office box rental fees, money order fees and the cost to pur-chase insurance when mailing an item, officials said.

Postal of-f ic ia ls c i te inflation and increased oper-ating expenses as two of the reasons for the increase.

“These price a d j u s t m e n t s will help with the implemen-tation of the Delivering for America plan, including a $40 billion i n v e s t m e n t in core Postal Service infrastructure over the next 10 years,” officials said.

Despite the increase, the Postal Service said it con-tinues to provide the lowest letter-mail postage rates in the industrialized world.

Initial U.S. postage rates were set by Congress as part of the Postal Service Act signed into law by President George Washington on Feb. 20, 1792.

Early rates for a first-class stamp were set at 6 cents, but

would fluctuate between 2 and 3 cents until Aug. 1, 1958, when the cost would rise to 4 cents.

The 1970s would begin with the cost at 8 cents, which would rise to 15 cents in 1978.

The largest recent increase for a first-class stamp would be a 4-cent rise in 1991, when the cost climbed from 25 cents to 29 cents, and in 2019, when a 5-cent in-crease brought the cost to 55 cents.

The Postal Service gener-ally receives no tax dollars

for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products, and services to fund its operations, officials said.

For more information about the Postal Service, visit usps.com.

Price of stamps increases 2 cents Sunday

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Customers at the Hudson Post Office will see an increase in the cost of first-class forever stamps after Sunday.

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Customers at the Catskill Post Office will see an increase in the cost of first-class forever stamps after Sunday.

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The cost of first-class forever stamps is scheduled to increase on Sunday.

HUDSON — The Columbia County Honor a Veteran com-mittee will be honoring Mari-lyn A. Wright and PFC George J. Wright Sr. at 9 a.m. July 25 in the Supervisors Chambers, 401 State St., Hudson. The public is invited.

Marilynn A. Wright, born on Sept. 26, 1920, in Pittsfield, Maine to Charles and Jessie Ryant. Her family moved to Tewksbury, Massachusetts, located just outside of Low-ell, Massachusetts where she grew up and graduated from high school.

On March 1, 1943, Mari-lynn enrolled in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) and was stationed at the Engineer Replacement Center at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. She would later be assigned to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Marilynn, (the only woman) was assigned to a U.S. Navy Seabees unit for the purpose of repairing of bridges state-side. “Because the guys were overseas,” her duties entailed clerical work that directed the necessary supplies to the ap-propriate project.

At age 22 Marilynn was honorably discharged on Aug. 30, 1943, having served of five months and thirty days of ac-tive duty.

Gerald John Wright Sr. was born March 8, 1918, at Oneida Valley, to Elmer T. and Leona Wright Beeman. He grew up there and graduated high school.

Living in Canastota, Gerald enlisted in the Army at the United States Army Recruiting Station on April 21, 1939. PFC Gerald J. Wright Sr. qualified with the M1 Garand and was trained as a light truck driver. PFC Wright served three year and three months in the States and on Aug. 7, 1942, he was assigned to Battery D, 5th Field Artillery Battalion in the

Eastern Theater of Operation. His unit was a part of the 1st Infantry Division which par-ticipated in every major Euro-pean campaign during World War II from North Africa to Germany. After two years 10 months of foreign service, he was discharged at Fort Dix, NJ on June 15, 1945.

For his service PFC Gerald John Wright Sr. was awarded the following: Bronze Star, the EAME Service Medal, Ameri-can Defense Service Medal, WII Victory Medal and the Good Conduct Medal.

Gerald passed away on Feb. 7 1988 and was buried in Ty-ler Cemetery, Kirkville, New York. He was 69 years old.

Gerald John Wright, Sr. met and married Marilynn A. Ryant on April 4, 1942, at

Jacksonville, Florida and raised five children, Fred, Ger-ald Jr., Carol, Roger and Rich-ard. In the ensuing years Ger-ald worked as a truck driver for Schwerman Trucking and Marilynn worked as a nurse’s aide at various facilities in

New York state.He was a member of the

American Legion Post 184 Hudson.

Marilynn resided at Whit-tier’s Nursing Home in Ghent, when she passed away on Dec. 8, 2016. She was buried

beside her husband at Tyler Cemetery. She was 96 years old.

They left behind four chil-dren, eight grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and two great-great-grand-children.

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‘‘I am not a grammarian.

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DOROTHY KILGALLEN

Now that we’re past the backyard barbecues, pa-rades and fireworks, past all the self-congratulations about how wonderful Amer-ica is, can we look back at the past month?

The House Select Com-mittee charged with inves-tigating the January 6th insurrection began laying out their findings in pub-lic hearings. But those who have been paying attention to politics over the past 6 years found nothing sur-prising in the roll-out of fac-tual evidence that Donald Trump plotted and planned a coup d’état of the USA, the overthrow of America’s gov-ernment, and the Constitu-tion. On the other hand, the details of that effort have been shocking. How effec-tively those details shake the faith of believers in Trump has yet to be determined, just as it is unclear whether Trump or any of his associ-ates will be indicted, much less found guilty, of any number of criminal acts. But unless one is willfully blind, it’s hard to conclude that if Trump didn’t manage to overthrow the government, it wasn’t because he didn’t try.

If revelations about Trump’s actions weren’t enough to contend with, we have only begun to un-derstand the significance of a radically conservative Supreme Court. With the leak of Justice Alito’s initial draft, we were given plenty of warning about the rever-sal of Roe v Wade. As with June’s Trump revelations, the decision itself was not surprising but shocking nonetheless.

The implications inher-ent in that ruling are far worse than the fate of a woman’s right to have an abortion. The court’s ruling makes clear that the evolu-tion of equal rights and per-sonal liberty for all Ameri-cans in all 50 states from 1776 to now is likely to be challenged. Already we can see that there will be differ-ent laws for different people in various states and not on-ly regarding abortion. Since this court assertively stated that there is no such thing as “settled law” (the idea that previous Supreme Court de-cisions are a binding prec-edent). The Constitution’s entire premise of “unenu-merated rights” is subject to review. (And, by the way, if there is no such thing as settled law then this court’s

decisions are reversible as well at some future date.)

In my gloomy reading of the court’s abortion deci-sion, the only rights now guaranteed are those con-ferred by the Constitutional amendments eliminating slavery and giving women the right to vote. There is an older idea of ordered liberty for all the talk about “ordered liberty” and 1868 in the court’s abortion deci-sion. It stretches back to the colonial period of American history, particularly to the British landed gentry who settled the Chesapeake Bay and Virginia areas. From their homes in western Eng-land, they brought the idea of a highly structured soci-ety in which different groups had different rights. Sitting atop the heap were men (not women) who owned land. Beneath them with fewer rights were everything from women to yeomen, inden-tured servants, and, at the bottom of the heap, slaves. One way to look at American history is to examine how that idea has evolved.

It is entirely unclear where this court is going to take us. Will, for example, the so-called “right to pri-vacy” be allowed to stand? Will the notion of “one man, one vote” continue to stand even if stretched as thin as it has long been by politically motivated gerrymandering? Will we revisit the right of the federal government to have an income tax? Are we a single nation or merely a loose federation of 50 quasi-independent states?

That last question is cer-tainly up for grabs with the court’s June ruling regard-ing the ability of the EPA to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions of power plants. As a result, the desire of conservatives to break the “administrative state” may be significantly achieved. Federal agencies’ ability to write rules regarding the environment, trade, food, drugs, travel, occupational safety, and so many other aspects of our national life

are subject to challenge as they haven’t been for at least the past 100 or more years.

How far are the radical justices willing to go to erase the separation of church and state. This court has been gradually smudging, if not erasing, the line. The whole argument regarding “religious liberty” is that people who claim to believe in a religion have rights that others don’t, that their faith entitles them to be above the law, at least in certain circumstances. How far will this court actually go?

In Texas, the Republi-can party wants the right to secede from the United States. I am reminded of the Alamo and the fight of Tex-ans to secede from Mexico. Remember what that was about? Among the rights they wanted was the ability to keep slavery, a practice that Mexico was trying to abolish. If you look at their history, you’ll get an idea of what Texas Republicans seem to want, and it’s not an America as it has developed over the past 120 years or more.

I’ve long thought that lib-erals, particularly in Wash-ington, DC, took the expan-sion of equal rights and the New Deal agenda to have been a successful if uneven, victory. Settled law. But we’ve learned in the past 6 years, if at no other time, that nothing is settled law. That freedom and liberty are not guaranteed. Equal rights are not guaranteed. A democratically elected gov-ernment is not guaranteed. They must always be fought for. That laziness and indif-ference can result in the loss of all those things. In par-ticular, liberals must learn that every voter counts, not just those who live in urban areas. That demographics are not destiny; they’re just statistics. Every elective of-fice matters. Liberals must learn that passion counts more than economic self-interest. They’d better find what George H. W. Bush dis-paragingly called “the vision thing” because they seem to have lost it along the way.

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A $500,000 state grant will allow the city of Hud-son to fund housing re-habilitation for low- and middle-income residents in the city.

That doesn’t sound like a fabulous gift, but the award might very well turn around one aspect of Hudson’s growing housing crisis. The New York State Community Development Block Grant Coronavirus Response program was launched to ensure safe shelter for New Yorkers during the COVID-19 pandemic. City officials hope the grant will

chip away at the structural problems plaguing existing homes.

Hudson has been awarded $500,000 to fund the rehabilitation of owner-occupied or rental housing in Hudson for households at under 80% of the area median income, approxi-mately $54,000 per year for a family of three in the city. In the application process, preference will be given to households that are under 50% of the area median income, which is approxi-mately $36,600 for a family of three.

Owners of rental housing whose tenants are under 80% of the area median income may also receive re-habilitation support as part of the program.

The grant strikes a seri-ous blow for support of the right to safe and affordable housing and that right has never been more at risk in Hudson than in the past two years. Hudson officials rightly see this urgent need as a priority and now have the means of taking di-rect, immediate action for residents with the greatest need.

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It is easier to curse the darkness than to provide glimmers of light. The for-mer fuels inaction in the face of threats and provides glide paths toward disaster.

America, writes Sen. Mitt Romney, R, Utah, in a recent essay in The Atlantic, is in unhealthy denial about what ails it. And “when entire countries fail to confront serious challenges, it doesn’t end well,” he warns, noting that inaction and gridlock on immigration and border security, drought and cli-mate change and ongoing threats to our democratic processes are potentially cataclysmic.

We agree and would add gun violence to the list as we shed tears of anger and sadness of yet another incident of mass gun violence just days after Congress passed a modest, but historic gun safety law. At least seven people died and dozens were injured as a gunman on a rooftop fired repeatedly on a crowd gathered in Highland Park, Illinois, to celebrate the Fourth of July, something communities across this country have done since our nation’s founding. Tragically, public celebra-tions and gatherings in schools, churches, malls have become soft targets of violent opportunists.

And in each instance, the violence steals something from within us and replaces it with fear.

The essence of Romney’s warnings is the broader, systemic failures of leader-ship in the face of crisis, a level of abdication for which the political left and right bear responsibil-ity. “Elected officials put a finger in the wind more frequently than they show backbone against it,” Rom-ney writes. “Too often, Washington demonstrates the maxim that for evil to thrive only requires good men to do nothing.”

All of that is true but begs the issue of how to change the crippling dynamics of gridlock and complacency. Romney says “we Ameri-cans have lived in a very for-giving time, and seeing the world through rose-colored glasses had limited conse-quences.” But the nation faces an important reck-oning that “will require us all to rise above ourselves — above our grievances and resentments — and grasp the mantle of leader-ship our country so badly needs,” Romney writes.

The nation is at an inflec-tion point as consequential as 9/11, the Cold War and Pearl Harbor, and the com-plex issues at play are being debated in an environment that rejects good faith ef-

forts toward meaningful solutions. The country, Romney contends, is in “a national malady of denial, deceit, and distrust,” and warns that a return of Don-ald Trump to office “would feed the sickness, probably rendering it incurable.”

The bottom line is that this is our nation and we will continue to get the nation and the leadership we as citizens elect, which isn’t necessarily the one we need. Planning for the future requires a level of serious engagement in the details, not the spew-ing of alternative facts and conspiratorial musings. It requires citizens to act seri-ously and to vote seriously in the best interest of the nation and not along the narrow bands of self inter-est or quasi-tribal loyalty that has rooted itself in our politics.

Romney is telling us what we need to hear, that our nation depends on us to actively reject the political failure that has led to policy paralysis.

The best time to prepare for the future was weeks, months and years ago. The next best time is now.

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GHENT BAND ANNOUNCES 123RD CONCERT SERIES

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Pictured is the Ghent Band in 1927. After opening its 123rd year at parades in Ghent, Chatham, Canaan, Walkill and Hudson, the Ghent Band will continue its annual summer concert series at the Ghent VFW Post 5933 at 7:30 p.m. July 13. Kinderhook concerts begin Aug. 3. Concert goers can expect a mix of marches, show tunes, waltzes and overtures. All Ghent and Kinderhook concerts are free of charge and provide a chance to unplug and unwind the same way people did a century ago. Longtime fans should note that Kinderhook’s concerts will start at 7 p.m. this year. Ghent VFW Gazebo: 7:30 p.m. July 13; 7:30 p.m. July 20; 7:30 p.m. July 27. Village of Kinderhook Bandstand: 7 p.m. Aug. 3; 7 p.m. Aug. 10; 7 p.m. Aug. 17; 7 p.m. Aug. 24; rain date, 7 p.m. Aug. 31.

LIVINGSTON - The Livings-ton Free library is sponsoring the online presentation, Mary Powell: Queen of the Hudson River Steamboats, at 7 p.m. July 14. To register, email Liv-ingstonlibprograms@gmail.com.

Sarah Wassberg Johnson, Director of Exhibits and Out-reach at the Hudson River Maritime Museum in Kings-ton will give this presentation on the history of steamboats, including the longest running boat, The Mary Powell. This ship hosted famous passen-gers, such as Ulysses S. Grant and Walt Whitman, and led

national events including the unveiling of the Statue of Lib-erty in 1886.

The Hudson River once teemed with steamboats, the first place on earth to offer regular steamboat traffic. But one steamboat stood out from the crowd: the Mary Powell. Learn about the economic and social conditions that led to her construction, the lives of her owners and captains, and why she was “Queen” from the beginning of the Civil War to the U.S. entrance into World War I. The Mary Powell represented the golden age of steamboats on the Hudson

River.The online program, Ocean

and River of Turtles, Oceans of Possibilities at 7 p.m. July 19. To register, email Livingston-libprograms@gmail.com.

Join environmental educa-tor, Leanna O’Grady of the Mud Creek Environmental Learning Center to learn more about the amazing sea and freshwater turtles. The Hud-son River is actually a tidal estuary, where salt water from the ocean combines with fresh water from northern tributaries. Learn how turtles can adapt to these diverse habitats.

Livingston Free Library offers online presentations

MIDDLETOWN — Follow-ing a triumphant return in 2021, the Orange County Fair team is ready to entertain the community once again with a packed schedule of family entertainment filled with excitement and even fireworks. Each night, fair-goers will see incredible acts such as the circus, national tribute bands, animal acts, grandstand entertainment, fan-favorite fair foods, arts and crafts, and a full carnival midway.

Back by popular demand, catch the world famous Royal Hanneford Circus nightly in the arena and cheer on your favorite monkey jockeys as the race around the track in the banana derby. New this year, Benjamin Jackson, comedy hypnotist, will put fairgoers in a trance, having

them perform hilarious tasks on stage nightly.

These shows are free with just the price of fair admis-sion. “We’ve searched the country for the best acts sure to entertain your whole family at the 2022 fair. We’re bringing back some crowd favorites and some exciting new ones,” says Ron Weber, Fair Manager.

On the Barn Amphithe-atre Stage, the fair staff has scheduled a lineup of na-tional touring tribute acts as well as headlining Christian rock band, Building 429. New this year, the fair will host a Lucha Libre wrestling show and a day of Spanish music. “We’ve programmed our Barn Amphitheatre area to have something for everyone. Shows are free with admis-sion or get a VIP ticket for just

$20,” says Weber.The Dreamland Amuse-

ments midway boasts rides for thrill-seekers and gentle riders alike. A ride list can be found on the fair’s website. Discount nights on July 15, 21 and 28 include deals like free admission, BOGO un-limited ride wristbands, and carload night. “We have great discounts available on Thurs-day nights of the fair. We offer admission and ride combo tickets and family four packs at a steep discount online as well,” says Weber.

And don’t forget about the fair food! Sausage and pep-pers, zeppoles, funnel cakes, gyros, cheesesteaks and much more will be available as part of the fair’s extensive vendor lineup. For more in-formation and savings visit www.orangecountyfair.com.

The 182nd Orange County Fair runs July 14 through July 31

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JULY 8

STUYVESANT — St. John’s Lutheran Church, 159 Route 26A, Stuyvesant, will hold the annual Summer Tag Sale 9 a.m.-2 p.m. July 8 and July 9, inside and outside. As always the tables will be full with a wide variety of items for you to choose from. We will not be serving lunch and no food sale. Due to the high num-bers of COVIDS in the county we are asking that you please wear a mask inside.

STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — Berkshire Botanical Garden, 5 West Stockbridge Road, Stockbridge, Mass., pres-ents Field Study: The Wilds of Church House 10 a.m.-noon July 8. Join us as we explore the gardens of Church House in Northwestern Connecti-cut with acclaimed gardener and writer Page Dickey. While Church House is encircled by flower gardens, our visit will focus on how Page has worked to integrate these gardens into the wilder parts of the land-scape she stewards. Join us for this unique and intimate opportunity to explore one of the well-loved gardens in our region, documented in Page’s book “Uprooted.” Scholar-ships are always available. Non-members, $55; mem-bers, $45. For information, visit http://www.berkshirebo-tanical.org/events, 413-298-3926 or info@berkshirebotani-cal.org.

JULY 9

ANCRAM — St. John’s church, 1273 County Route 7, Ancram, annual chicken barbecue will be held July 9, take out only. Pick up 4:30-6 p.m. Menu includes barbecue chicken, corn, coleslaw, po-tato salad, rolls and watermel-on. Take outs, $17. Tickets are limited and must be ordered by July 4. To reserve tickets, call Jim at 518-755-8978 (cell); Cindy, 518-329-0038; Andrea, 518-789-4769; Debby at 518-329-7594.

COPAKE — Parish of Our Lady of Hope, 8074 Route 22, Copake, will serve a chicken barbecue 6:30-7:30 p.m. July 9 after 5 p.m. Mass. Take out on-ly. Adult menu includes chick-en, cole slaw, baked potato, roll, dessert and water. Chil-dren’s menu includes chicken, potato, applesauce and juice box. Adults, $15; children, $8. Pre-sale tickets only limited to 150. For ticket reservations, call or email tom at 518-821-6932 or taalvarez1972@gmail.com.

JULY 10

COPAKE — The Eagles Stage Band, a big band jazz group from Berkshire County, will perform at 3 p.m. July 10 at the Hilltop Barn, Roe Jan Park, Copake, across from the Roe-liff Jansen Community Library on Route 22, Copake. Lawn chairs are appreciated. Admis-sion is free. For information, call 518 325-4101.

PHILMONT — History of Philmont presentation by Milestone Heritage Consulting with speaker Matt Kierstead 2-3:30 p.m. July 10 at Village Hall, 124 Main St., Philmont. The presentation will illus-trate the history of Philmont, its mills, the canal system that supplied hydropower to run several of the mills, worker housing, the railroad and how Philmont was one of the most productive mill towns in Co-lumbia County. A community conversation will take place after the presentation about the proposed Village of Philm-ont Historic District.

JULY 11

STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — Berkshire Botanical Garden, 5 West Stockbridge Road, Stock-bridge, Mass., presents Music Mondays 5:30-7:30 p.m. Mon-days July 11 through Aug. 29. Each week, a band from the

local music community will perform in the Garden. Bring chairs, blanket and picnic and enjoy the musical evening along with beer and wine for purchase from Big Elm Brew-ing. Spontaneous dancing en-couraged. Visit the website to find out who is playing. Non-members, $15; members, $10. For information, visit http://www.berkshirebotanical.org/events, 413-298-3926 or info@berkshirebotanical.org.

JULY 12

HALFMOON — The local group of The Society of Ameri-can Magicians (SAM), Assem-bly 24, will meet at 5:30 p.m. July 12 at The Halfmoon Diner, Route 9, Halfmoon. For meet-ing details and information about the organization visit WWW.SAM24.SYNTHASITE.COM. The group meets the second Tuesday of the month.

JULY 14

HUDSON — Trinity United Methodist Church UMW, 555 Joslen Blvd., Hudson, will be hosting a chicken barbecue prepared by Barbecue De-lights 4-6:30 p.m. July 14 take-out only. The menu includes half chicken, baked potato, homemade coleslaw, dinner roll and homemade brownie. Tickets for the complete din-ner are $14; chicken only is $8. For tickets and information, call 518-828-0226.

JULY 16

CHATHAM — Outside Ex-posure: a CLC Photography Club invites anyone who en-joys taking pictures to join a walk at High Falls Conserva-tion Area 10 a.m.-noon July 16. This month’s theme focuses on reflections and exposure settings with water. Photog-raphers of all skill levels and abilities are welcome. Out-side Exposure is a photo club that is designed to explore Public Conservation Areas and other natural areas in Columbia County through a lens. This club focuses on na-ture photography and grow-ing photography skills within a welcoming and friendly community, whether you shoot with an iPad or a DSLR (or don’t know what either of those are!). Space at the walk is limited and registration is required. Visit clctrust.org/events to sign up and learn more.

SCHODACK LANDING — The Dutch Reformed Church of Schodack at Muitzeskill, 902 Schodack Landing Road, Schodack Landing, will be holding a flea market 9 a.m.-2 p.m. July 16. Along with items we will have for sale, we in-vite the community to set up a table and sell your own goods. There is no registra-tion required and there are no fees. This will be a rain or shine event. Must provide own table and/or tent. If there are any questions, please leave a mes-sage at 518-732-7500. Some-one will return your call.

JULY 19

GERMANTOWN — The Germantown Garden Club will be visiting the home gardens of Tim Kennelty July 19. Tim is a Master Gardener and Mas-ter Naturalist through Cornell Cooperative Extension and serves on the Board of Trust-ees of the Columbia Land Con-servancy. He has gardened in Columbia County for more than 25 years and has devel-oped a passion for preserving native species and combating exotic invasive plants. He has been involved in a multi-year habitat restoration project at the Siegel-Kline Kill public conservation area in Ghent. We will have a tour of his gar-dens. Lunch and a short meet-ing will follow. The tour starts at 9:30 a.m. Meet at the park-ing lot at the Kellner Activity Center at 9 a.m. for carpooling. For information, call Fran Bufi at 518-537-4868.

STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — Berkshire Botanical Garden, 5 West Stockbridge Road, Stock-bridge, Mass., presents Bats of the Berkshires with Mass Audubon 7-9 p.m. July 19. Join Mass Audubon for an excit-ing journey into the world of

incredible flying mammals. Explore bat hibernation, iden-tification and the challenges they face on a conservation level. Beginning with a slide-show and discussion about bats, we will watch the evening wind down and try to capture the exciting moments when the bats come out to feed. Non-members, $19; mem-bers, $15. For information, visit http://www.berkshirebo-tanical.org/events, 413-298-3926 or info@berkshirebotani-cal.org.

JULY 22

STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — Berkshire Botanical Garden, 5 West Stockbridge Road, Stock-bridge, Mass., hosts a Behind-the-scenes tour of Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, Mass., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. July 22. Join Berkshire Botanical Gar-den for a behind-the-scenes tour of the stunning Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, Mass. and nearby Brigham Hill Farm. The Worcester County Horticultural Soci-ety was incorporated in 1842 as a non-profit educational organization for the purpose of advancing the science of horticulture and encourag-ing and improving its prac-tice. As the third oldest active horticultural society in the United States, the Society of-fered flower shows and edu-cational programs in down-town Worcester for more than 150 years. In 1986, the Society purchased Tower Hill Farm to develop as a botanic garden where the ideals of the organi-zation could be put into prac-tice for the community. Non-members, $75; members, $65. For information, visit http://www.berkshirebotanical.org/events, 413-298-3926 or info@berkshirebotanical.org.

JULY 23

HUDSON — FASNY Muse-um of Firefighting, 117 Harry Howard Ave., Hudson, will host the in-person event, Re-act & Extract: Live Firefighter Demo & Obstacle Course 10:30 a.m.-noon July 23. Join us as firefighters from the Green-port Fire Department do a live demonstration on how they extract victims of a car accident from a car to rescue them. Then go through the Museum’s firefighter obstacle course. Can you react like a firefighter and make it through all of the obstacles to save the victim? Every child that tries will get a prize. All activities are free and will be outdoors, rain or shine, there will be a tent for spectators. Free admission to the Museum will also be of-fered to all who attend this special event. Reservations are not required.

MILAN — A ceremony for the unveiling of the Jacob Shook historical marker locat-ed on Shookville Road in the town of Milan at 10 a.m. July 23. Jacob Shook was Milan’s second supervisor, post mas-ter and served in the Dutchess County militia from 1811 through 1816. In 1833, he and his brother, Peter, donated land for the construction of the Shookville Church and Cem-etery. This historical marker is made possible through the William Pomeroy Foundation and was granted for the thor-ough and important research done by Bonnie Wood, who is a descendant of prominent Milan citizens. For additional information, contact Victoria LoBrutto, Milan historian, at Milannyhistory@gmail.com.

HUDSON — The Chris-tian Service Committee at St. Mary’s Holy Trinity Parish will be having a “Final” Trash & Treasure Sale 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. July 23 and 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. July 24 at the Academy, 301 Al-len St., Hudson, in the air con-ditioned gym. The final sale offers a chance for treasures amid a selection of one-of-a-kind antiques, jewelry, small electrics, linens, crystal, fine china, crafts, tapes, books, art-work and Christmas and other seasonal decorations. For the safety of everyone, please wear a mask.

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CANAAN — Lauree Hickock, President of the Canaan Historical Society, announced the inaugural talk of its 2022 free summer programs at 3 p.m. July 9 be-ing held at The Society of New Concord Meeting House featuring Heather Brugel on The Original New Yorkers; An Indigenous History of Land. Come prepared to think and be challenged.

Brugel is an independent indigenous consultant. She is a citizen of the Oneida Na-tion of Wisconsin and first-line descendent Stockbridge

Munsee, as well as a graduate of Madonna University in Michigan with both a B.A. and M.A. in U.S. History. Her re-search and writings on Amer-ican history cover legacies of colonization and indigeneity, such as: Dakota War of 1812, American boarding schools, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

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David DiBlasi, 53, of Hudson, passed away Thursday June 30 in Hudson. David loved music, and he was a proud member of the band Necrolord for over 30 years. David was a caring soul with a generous heart, who would help anyone at any time. He is survived by his children David McIntosh of Coeymans and Alyssa McIntosh of Catskill, along with grandchildren Harry A. Becker Jr. Kaiya McIntosh and Nicholas Becker. David was predeceased by his mother Theresa Ali (DiBlasi) and sister Shaharazade Ali.

Visitation hours at the Bates & Anderson-Redmond Keeler Funeral Home will be Tuesday July 12 from 5:00-7:00pm.

David DiBlasiJune 30, 2022

Lucinda Marie (Ricci) Becker, age 73, a longtime resident of Cairo, NY, passed away on July 5, 2022 at home surrounded by her family.

Born in Catskill, NY on April 3, 1949, “Cindy” is the daughter of the late Anthony F. and Dorothy Ricci of South Cairo. She is survived by her loving husband of 53 years-Dale Becker, children-Amy and Christo-pher Becker, grandson-Liam Becker, brothers-Anthony (Marlene), Donald, and Lawrence Ricci (Maureen), many nieces, nephews, grandnieces, grandnephews and friends.

Relatives and friends are cordially invited to attend calling hours at Richards Funeral Home, 29 Bross Street, Cairo, NY on Sunday, July 10, 2022 from 2:00P.M. – 4:00 PM.

Mass of the Christian Burial will be celebrated at The Sacred Heart Church, Cairo, NY on Monday, July 11, 2022, at 11:00 A.M.

Interment will follow in the family plot of The Freehold Cem-etery, Freehold, NY.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Columbia-Greene Humane Society/SPCA at cghs.org. Full obituary and condolences may be made at www.richardsfuneralhomeinc.net.

Lucinda Marie (Ricci) Becker April 3, 1949 - July 5, 2022

Barbara Card, 83, passed away peacefully on July 3, 2022 at Pine Ha-ven Nursing Home. Barbara was born in Hudson, NY on March 5, 1939. She was the daughter of the late Milford and Maccina (Kronas) Dunspaugh.

Barbara graduated from Hudson High School in 1956 and attended Mildred Elley Secretarial School. She worked at Richmor Aviation in Ghent for over 40 years. Barbara had a pas-sion for casinos, shopping, fundrais-ing dinners, dancing and traveling, especially to Las Vegas. In her later years, she enjoyed casino trips closer to home. She also loved animals and happily jumped in the backseat of her niece Karen’s car to share the seat with Jimbo for a ride. She and her sister Ellie wore out the soles of many shoes walking around the building at Joslen Commons and then Ghent Adult Living.

Barbara is survived by her sister Eleanor Close and her daughter, Judy (Jake) Tice. “Airplane Grandma” will be missed by grandchildren Jackie (Dan) Sweet and John “Bud” Tice, as well as great-grandchildren Ella and Bentley Sweet and special friends, Steven and Olgita Kuzmiak. Barbara was predeceased by her companion and dancing partner for over 30 years, Steve Kuzmiak in 2014. She and Steve were especially fond of polkas.

The family would like to thank the staff of the South Wing at Pine Haven for the care and compassion they provided to our mother and grandmother over the last few months, as well as the support you gave us. Thank you to the girls at the reception desk for always having a smile on your face and greeting us by name when we arrived. Not to be forgotten is the entire staff at Ghent Adult Living. All of you, no matter your job, had a part in the wonderful care she received over the last few years. You also provided us with comfort and guidance when we needed it most and we are grateful for all of you.

Grave-site services will be held Saturday, July 23, 2022, 11:00am at Cedar Park Cemetery, Hudson, NY. In lieu of flow-ers, donations may be made to the Activities Department of Ghent Adult Living, 30 Whittier Way, Ghent, NY 12075 or Shri-ner’s Hospitals for Children, PO Box 947765, Atlanta GA 30394. Condolences may be conveyed at frenchblasl.com.

Barbara CardMarch 5, 1939 - July 3, 2022

By Adam BernsteinThe Washington Post

James Caan, a Hollywood leading man of the 1970s who memorably displayed his tough-guy screen presence as the trigger-happy Mafioso Sonny Corleone in “The God-father” — but who also proved, beyond his macho exterior, a versatile performer of wry ex-pressiveness and unexpected vulnerability, died July 6 at 82.

His death was announced in a message by his official Twit-ter account. Additional details were not immediately avail-able.

The son of a butcher who had fled Nazi Germany, Mr. Caan grew up in the 1940s and ’50s on the knockabout streets of New York’s outer boroughs. A wiry boy, he was dubbed “Killer Caan” for his use of his fists in self-defense, and he prided himself on never losing his street-wise edge or raspy Queens accent. He remained, he said, just a “punk from Sun-nyside,” even as his enigmatic smile and aura of danger pro-pelled a Hollywood career last-ing six decades and spanning more than 130 credits.

He maintained his strut and bravado off-screen, earning a black belt in karate and pursu-ing hobbies such as powerboat racing and roping steers. “I think I can safely say,” he ob-served, “I was the only Jewish cowboy from New York on the professional rodeo cowboy cir-cuit.” Admittedly headstrong and at times self-destructive, he endured the tumult of co-caine addiction and four di-vorces.

Film critic Roger Ebert ad-miringly called him “the most wound-up guy in the movies,” a description Mr. Caan did not dispute. Shortly after the box-office success of “Mis-ery” (1990), in which Mr. Caan played a novelist held cap-tive by a hammer-wielding deranged fan, Mr. Caan joked that director Rob Reiner had indulged in a sadistic game by forcing him — “the most hyper guy in Hollywood” — to per-form the role tied to a bed over 15 weeks of filming.

Mr. Caan had gone into act-ing on an impulse, desperate to avoid “humping sides of meat from trucks to restaurants” with his father in the bitter chill of dawn. He had a talent for making people laugh, a skill he honed one summer as a Catskills resort social direc-tor, and bluffed his way into a prestigious theater training program in Manhattan, the Neighborhood Playhouse.

With his brooding good looks and coiled unpredict-ability, Mr. Caan won a long string of guest parts on TV be-fore entering movies. He was initially cast in action roles in the saddle, the racecar, the conning tower and the space-ship. But he showed, when given the chance, understated intelligence and sensitivity as a performer.

Reviewers praised him as a brain-damaged ex-jock in “The Rain People” (1969), directed by Francis Ford Coppola but little seen because studio ex-ecutives lost faith in its com-mercial appeal. His breakout role was the terminally ill Chi-cago Bears running back Brian Piccolo in the TV film “Brian’s Song” (1971).

The ABC movie, which touched on interracial friend-ship, attracted 55 million viewers and earned Mr. Caan an Emmy nomination as best actor. The next year, Coppola tapped him to play Sonny Cor-leone, the eldest son of the ma-fia kingpin in “The Godfather.”

In a cast that included Mar-lon Brando as his aging father, Vito, and Al Pacino as his som-ber younger brother Michael, Mr. Caan more than held his own as the coarsely sexy and hot-tempered Sonny. To get into character, Mr. Caan said he found unlikely inspiration in comedian Don Rickles and his unnerving style of “busting everybody’s chops” in vicious takedowns.

Advising Michael on how to kill a rival mobster and a

corrupt police captain, he declares that “you gotta get up close, like this — and bada bing! You blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit.”

The phrase “bada bing” was improvised by Mr. Caan and “became a mantra for mob-sters and aspiring mobsters,” Vanity Fair reported in 2009, and served as the name of Tony Soprano’s strip club on the HBO TV show “The Sopranos.”

Sonny gets his comeup-pance when he is bloodied in a battlefield’s worth of machine-gun fire while trapped in his car at a tollbooth. In a scene that took three days to film, Mr. Caan wore nearly 150 tiny ex-plosive charges called squibs. “When they went off, it felt like I was being punched all over,” he told the London Observer. “If my hand had got in front of one, it would have blown a hole clean through.

“I wouldn’t have done it,” he added, “if there hadn’t been so many girls around the set to impress.”

“The Godfather” was a com-mercial juggernaut, won Acad-emy Awards including best pic-ture, helped reinvigorate the gangster genre and was ranked behind only “Citizen Kane” on the American Film Institute’s 2007 list of greatest films of all time. Mr. Caan, who was nomi-nated for a best supporting actor trophy, was inundated for decades with exact-change and E-ZPass jokes.

After “The Godfather,” Mr. Caan said he was rarely given a script that did not feature a pile of corpses in the first 10 minutes. Determined to avoid typecasting, he ventured into offbeat comedy with “Slither” (1973); played a sailor who winds up looking after the in-terracial son of a prostitute in “Cinderella Liberty” (1973); was a college English profes-sor in life-threatening debt to bookies in “The Gambler” (1974); and showed off a pleas-ant singing voice as theatrical showman Billy Rose in “Funny Lady” (1975), which starred Barbra Streisand as entertainer Fanny Brice.

He was an athlete in a night-marish game of state-spon-sored murder in “Rollerball” (1975), a heroic Army sergeant in the all-star World War II dra-ma “A Bridge Too Far” (1977) and a master safecracker in “Thief” (1981). For the last, which he regarded as his fin-est performance, he learned proper technique from former crooks who had been hired as technical advisers.

In his quest for variety, he ended up with several misfires and mediocrities, including “Freebie and the Bean” (1974), which Mr. Caan later dismissed as “ ‘The Odd Couple’ in a squad car.” He turned down leading parts in era-defining dramas such as “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” “Kramer vs. Kramer” (which he dismissed with an epithet as “middle-class bourgeois” bull) and Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now.”

“When Francis called me up about ‘Apocalypse Now,’ all I heard him say was ‘16 weeks in the Philippine jungle,’ ” Mr. Caan told The Washington Post, explaining his rejection.

In the same interview, he added that Brando was incred-ulous when Mr. Caan refused the title role of “Superman” (1978) despite being offered — like Brando, who played Jor-El — millions of dollars for what was literally a cartoonish role. “Yeah, Marlon,” he replied, “but you don’t have to wear the suit.” (The film launched a hit franchise, with Christopher Reeve in the title role.)

As his career teetered, Mr. Caan increasingly developed a reputation for wayward per-sonal and professional behav-ior. In interviews, he seemed unable to control his bad-mouthing of movies by power-ful directors, in particular the Hollywood infatuation with special effects over character-driven plot.

He starred in and directed a critically lauded, low-budget drama, “Hide in Plain Sight”

(1980), based on the true story of a man’s battle to find his children when his ex-wife and her mob-informant husband go into the witness-protection program. But he said the stu-dio buried it. “There were no sharks in it, so these two idiots over at MGM didn’t know what to do with it,” he told the Lon-don Independent.

Meanwhile, he pursued a decadent lifestyle as an habi-tue of the Playboy Mansion. He spiraled into cocaine ad-diction after the death of his younger sister and closest con-fidant Barbara, from leukemia in 1981. Around that time, he lost his life savings — and his home — after it was discov-ered that he owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes. He blamed incompetent busi-ness managers but also himself for being too addled by drugs at the time to notice.

Mr. Caan entered drug re-habilitation at least twice in the 1980s and 1990s, and he continued to be pulled into headlines during those years, once for allegedly slapping and choking a girlfriend and once for brandishing a gun during an argument over a parking space. He also publicly acknowledged his friendship with reputed mobsters (“I know he’s not a carpenter, OK?” he said of one close associate from his New York days).

He was all but unemployable when Coppola fought for him to star as an Army sergeant in the Vietnam-era military dra-ma “Gardens of Stone” (1987). Critics lauded his subdued and affecting performance as a loner who loves the Army but hates the war, but the film faded quickly from attention.

Mr. Caan cursed the very mention of “Alien Nation” (1988), a science-fiction cop-buddy film about extraterres-trials living among Angelinos, and he suffered a massive bomb with “For the Boys” (1991), a Bette Midler musical about a U.S.O. troupe.

Grayer and weathered, but still with a menacing charisma, Mr. Caan began his return to prominence with a run of intimidating character roles. Channeling the spirit of Sonny Corleone, he appeared in the crime comedies “Honeymoon in Vegas” (1992), “Bottle Rock-et” (1996) and “Mickey Blue Eyes” (1999). He also was an ex-CIA man working casino se-curity for four seasons in the hit NBC series “Las Vegas” (2003).

From ‘tackling dummy’ to the movies

James Edmund Caan was born in the Bronx on March 26, 1940, and grew up in a section of Queens that he later called “a neighborhood not condu-cive to the arts.”

After being kicked out of sev-eral public schools for disrup-tive behavior, he managed at 16 to graduate from the Rhodes School, a now-defunct Man-hattan prep academy, half-jok-ing that teachers accelerated him just to be done with him.

He entered Michigan State University with the hope of playing on its vaunted football team, but he said he wound up as “tackling dummy.” At Hofs-tra College (now university) in Hempstead, N.Y., he dropped out after getting into a fistfight with an ROTC superior. He was a lifeguard and a bouncer, among other odd jobs, before entering the Neighborhood Playhouse in Manhattan on a whim.

After brief theater experi-ence as a spear carrier, he moved to California. In one of his earliest screen parts, he was a sadistic hood who torments Olivia de Havilland while she is trapped in her home elevator in “Lady in a Cage” (1964). Direc-tor Howard Hawks, known as a spotter of new talent, cast him in the lead role of the racecar drama “Red Line 7000” (1965) and then in a major supporting role as a rebellious knife-fight-er opposite John Wayne in “El Dorado” (1966).

Offscreen, Mr. Caan and Wayne had a contentious and playful relationship, with Wayne going out of his way

to help the young actor who seemed completely unintimi-dated working with the legend-ary western star. Wayne pulled pranks, like filling Mr. Caan’s dressing room with trash. And Mr. Caan said he called out Wayne for cheating at chess between takes. “He was so lame,” he told the Guardian. “He’d say, ‘Hey, Jimmy, what’s that over there,’ and shove the rook around while I gazed yon-der like a schmuck.”

Mr. Caan’s marriages to dancer Dee Jay Mattis, Sheila Ryan (a Playboy model and one-time girlfriend of Elvis Presley), Ingrid Hajek and cos-tume designer Linda Stokes ended in divorce. Survivors include five children, including actor Scott Caan from his sec-ond marriage.

Mr. Caan’s later roles in-cluded Arnold Schwarzeneg-ger’s deceitful boss in “Eraser” (1996); a mobster in Lars von Trier’s disturbing avant-garde drama “Dogville” (2003); man-child Will Ferrell’s irritable father in “Elf” (2003); and a physically “ripped” priest with a temper in the Adam Sandler comedy “That’s My Boy” (2012).

In a career and private life marked by vicissitudes, he was grateful for his association with a popular hit (“Misery”) and a cinematic landmark (“The Godfather”).

“Look, you only pray when you start in this business that you get to the point where people recognize you,” he told Cigar Aficianado magazine. “I’ve got a lot of people who are, like, ‘Hey, your ankle OK?’ from ‘Misery.’ . . . Or they’ll say, ‘Hey, don’t go through that toll booth again’ or ‘Have the right change.’ ”

“It means that they remem-ber the picture,” he added. “There’s nothing not to like about it. The only thing that I get a little upset about is when I’m in a restaurant and people . . . beckon me with their finger. I get a little sideways. I go, ‘No, you come here! What, am I a taxi or something?’ ”

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JULY 7

UrinetownThursday, July 7, 8 p.m.$45A side splitting sendup of greed, love, revolution, and musical the-ater itself. Inspired by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, Urinetown is hilariously funny, remarkably irreverent and touch-ingly sincere. The winner of 3 Tony Awards and 2 Obie Awards, this incredible satire leaves no one safe from scrutiny as it surveys societies established norms and founda-tional institutions.A dire water shortage, caused by a 20-year drought, has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens of Uri-netown are forced to pay a single malevolent company to use the only available amenities. One citizen of Urinetown decides that they’ve had enough. They plan a revolution to break the chain and lead the people to freedom!Originally planned for our 2020 season, this production of Urinet-own is two years in the making, finally hitting our stage for the first time ever. You are sure to love the ardent characters of this irreverent satire. Praised for reinvigorating the very notion of what a musical could be, Urinetown catapults the “comedic romp” into the modern era. It’s outrageous, unscrupulous, and absolutely hilarious!Thursday, July 7, 8 p.m., http://www.machaydntheatre.org/ticket-information/Mac-Haydn Theatre, 1925 NY-203, Chatham, 518-392-9292

JULY 8

Valia’s Wood Fire Pizza Pop Up!Friday, July 8, 4 p.m. - 8 p.m.Valia’s Wood Fire Pizza is popping up at the Cocktail Garden! Pair their perfectly baked pizza with one of our signature cocktails.Friday, July 8, 4 p.m. - 8 p.m., https://www.facebook.com/events/Cooper’s Daughter Spirits at Olde York, 284 State Rouite 23, Claver-ack, 845-480-1237

House Blend III: Celebrated Soloists and EnsemblesFriday, July 8, 5 p.m.$10 – $40PS21 HOUSE BLEND: Brewed with audiences in mindOur annual Modern Music series, brewed with audiences in mind, featuring celebrated soloists and ensembles, marry classic virtuosity with contemporary ingenuity.Friday, July 8, 5 p.m., https://www.simpletix.com/e/house-blend-iii-celebrated-soloists-and-en-tickets-102559PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, 2980 NY-66, Cha-tham, 518-392-6121

Aston MagnaFriday, July 8, 7 p.m.$15 – $50Summer Music FestivalEnjoy an evening of Baroque and early music by the Hudson Valley’s own early-music masters.For further information about the Summer Music Festival visit the organizers website.Friday, July 8, 7 p.m., https://hud-sonhall.org/event/aston-magna/Hudson Hall, 327 Warren Street, Hudson, (518) 822-1438

UrinetownFriday, July 8, 8 p.m.$45A side splitting sendup of greed, love, revolution, and musical the-ater itself. Inspired by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, Urinetown is hilariously funny, remarkably irreverent and touch-ingly sincere. The winner of 3 Tony Awards and 2 Obie Awards, this incredible satire leaves no one safe from scrutiny as it surveys societies established norms and founda-tional institutions.A dire water shortage, caused by a 20-year drought, has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens of Uri-netown are forced to pay a single malevolent company to use the only available amenities. One citizen of Urinetown decides that they’ve had enough. They plan a revolution to break the chain and lead the people to freedom!Originally planned for our 2020 season, this production of Urinet-own is two years in the making, finally hitting our stage for the first time ever. You are sure to love the ardent characters of this irreverent satire. Praised for reinvigorating the very notion of what a musical could be, Urinetown catapults the “comedic romp” into the modern era. It’s outrageous, unscrupulous, and absolutely hilarious!Friday, July 8, 8 p.m., http://www.machaydntheatre.org/ticket-information/Mac-Haydn Theatre, 1925 NY-203,

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JULY 9

Salute to “Pop” SweetSaturday, July 9, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.FREEThe Austerlitz History Center will host a new exhibit on the life and career of George R. “Pop” Sweet, the Famed Fiddler of Fog Hill.The exhibition traces Sweet’s musical career and features a soundtrack that includes record-ings of Pop’s fiddling and calling from 1947 that are now housed in the Library of Congress. Explored as well is Sweet’s colorful persona as a genuine backwoods character: a hunter and trapper, pursuer of the “Black Beast of the Berkshires,” and long-time Groundhog Day forecaster.Saturday, July 9, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m., https://austerlitzny.com/departments/historian/266-austerlitz-history-center-opens-5-29-21-10-00-am.htmlAusterlitz History Center, 812 Route 203, Spencertown, 518-392-3260

Round the Bend Theatre pres-ents a reading of THE MIGHTY LAMBSA New Play by David BunceDirected by Beth Ryan Troxellwith John Romeo, Joe Quandt, Kathleen Carey, Wil Anderson, Emily Curro, Ethan Botwick, Mike Espindle, and Michelle MoughanSaturday July 9 @ 7:30 p.m., Sun-day July 10 @ 7:30 p.m.Bridge Street Theatre, 44 West Bridge Street, CatskillTickets available at the door one-half hour before curtain time, $10 Suggested Donation

Members’ Art ShowSaturday, July 9, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.FREESpencertown Academy Arts Cen-ter presents its 7th annual Mem-bers’ Art Show featuring works made by 80 Academy community members.“This exhibition is an appreciation of the visual artists in our com-munity and neighboring com-munities who are involved with the universal process of creating. This year, the largest number of members ever are participating in the event,” says Norma Cohen, who serves on the Spencertown Academy Curatorial Committee. “We believe this to be a reflection of the care we give to curating this space, the attention we give to the artists who show their works here, and to the enthusiastic audiences who come to view these exhibits. We are delighted to have artwork that is multimedia. These include paintings in oil, acrylic, gouache, and watercolor; oil and chalk pas-tels; graphite, digital art, ceramics, wood working, collage and pho-tography. In addition, the use of color and style in all media is varied and exciting.”The exhibit will be on display on weekends through August 7.Saturday, July 9, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., https://spencertownacademy.org/event/seventh-annual-members-show/2022-07-09/Spencertown Academy Arts Cen-ter, 790 NY-203, Spencertown, (518) 392-3693

Chatham Summerfest!Saturday, July 9, 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.Enjoy a variety of live performers including a family entertainer, parade and live music throughout the village. Summerfest Parade at noon. Dozens of food options and merchandise vendors, as well as informational tables about local not-for profits. Free screening of “The Biggest Little Farm” at the Crandell. (See our website for the complete list)Saturday, July 9, 11 a.m. - 8 p.m., https://visitchathamny.com/chatham-summerfest/Village of Chatham, Main Street, Chatham

Park Theater Second Saturday SessionsSaturday, July 9, 7 p.m.Come enjoy free live music!! Jedi Johnston featuring Jesse Murphy & Avi BortnicSaturday, July 9, 7 p.m., https://www.facebook.com/Park-Theater-Hudson-100700092120550Park Theater, 723 Warren Street, Hudson

Sunset CruiseSaturday, July 9, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.$20 – $30Get out on the river and relax work-boat style. BYO Drinks / Snacks / Friends. Special Guest Captains throughout the season.Saturday, July 9, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., https://www.catskillmountain-ferry.com/Henry Hudson Riverfront Park, Wa-ter Street (behind Amtrak Station), Hudson

SPENCERTOWN — Help us Celebrate this Double An-niversary !

The 175th anniversary of our historic ho me & the 50th anniversary of the Academy as an arts center.

Saturday July 9thFree Entertainment for All!For Kids: 10 a.m.-noon on

the Village GreenBalloon ArtistsMortal Beasts and Deities

Stilt Dancers will roam the Green

Puppy petting pen from Help Orphan Puppies, Inc.

10:30-11 a.m.: Columbia County Youth Theater will perform

11:30 a.m.-noon: Tom Hooker Hanford: Fiddle Dee Dee, Children’s Folk Songs of Old New York and New Eng-land.

At the Academy: 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Building open for toursMembers’ Show in Gallery

Keeping Our History Alive: Academy history on video loop

Special Commemorative items for sale: t-shirts, photo book: A Look Back at Spencer-town and the Academy

Were you a student at the Academy?

Come and share your mem-ories!

11 a.m. to 12:50 p.m.: Our videographer will be record-ing former students in 10

minute sessions in the kitchen (former schoolroom). Come with an old school pal if you like! Reserve your time slot at the back door.

1 p.m.: Former students gather on the front steps for a group photo.

At the Austerlitz History Center: 10 a.m-2 p.m.

Opening of new exhibit on “Pop” Sweet, the Famed Fid-dler of Fog Hill (and Bobby Sweet’s great-grandfather).

Learn more about George R. “Pop” Sweet.

At the Town Park: Food Vendors 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Mama Lo’s BBQ, Mexican Food from Nelva, Mr. Ding-A-Ling

At the Ballfield:Bring blankets and chairs!1 - 1:30 p.m.: Tom Hooker

Hanford: Fiddle Dee Dee, Children’s Folk Songs of Old New York and New England.

2 - 4 p.m.: The Bobby Sweet Band

We’re grateful to our spon-sors’ generous support of this Anniversary Celebration.

TKG Real Estate and Bill Stratton Building Co.

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COMMUNITY DAY!!

CATSKILL — Following a developmental residency at Catwalk Institute, Brooklyn-based Marion Spencer Dance will present a live public performance of a new work entitled “to love the rise/pt.2” at Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre on Saturday July 16, 2022, at 7:30 p.m.

“to love the rise/pt.2” is an emerging/ongoing multimedia dance project di-rected by Marion Spencer and including artists Ogemdi Ude, Symara Johnson, Kimiko Tanabe, Tara Sheena, s. lumbert and slowdanger. Here is her description of the project: “Taking lessons from aboli-tion, liminal space, transformation, and Donna Haraway’s ‘A Cyborg Manifesto,’ our process continues developing through a previously imagined and now lived apoca-lypse, offering visions of a world built from the detritus of our current one. Reflecting upon Mariame Kaba’s writings on abolition and transformative justice, we collectively consider how we move forward with scars, embracing an alternative order. Emerg-ing on a different imaginative plane, a new utopia and all her elements are built by our collective, collaging moving and grooving, sensing and sounding, constructing and deconstructing, finding and losing order to

arrive together in a transformed ecology of sensing, imagination, and action. We offer an anti-capitalist mindset and alternative order in this project, posing that our world is

made by us all through resistance, imagin-ing and action.”

According to her website, Marion Spen-cer is “an interdisciplinary dance artist currently living on the unceded land of the Munsee Lenape and Canarsie peoples, known today as Brooklyn, NY. I propose dance and dance making as salvor - cel-lularly, individually, sociopolitically, soci-etally. Amidst a creative process including movement, vocalization, and collaging that are rigorously researched and rigorously in-tuitive, I dance and makes dances to dream and make dreams alive, inviting you to jour-ney terrains of my imagination.”

The performance of “to love the rise/pt.2” will take place on Bridge Street Theatre’s “Priscilla” Mainstage, located at 44 West Bridge Street in the Village of Catskill, NY, at 7:30pm Saturday July 16. Tickets are $15, $10 for Students/Seniors/Working Artists, and can be purchased at the door one-half hour prior to the performance or in advance online at bridgest.org/spencer-tickets/. To learn more about Marion Spencer dance, visit their website at www.marion-spencer.com. And for more information regarding the performance of “to love the rise/pt.2” on July 16, go to bridgest.org/marion-spencer/.

Marion Spencer Dance Comes to Catskill with ‘to love the rise/pt.2’

Photo: Stefano Altamura

Masks are recommended but not required. Buffered seating is offered to ensure that every patron or party will have ample space around them.

Please do your part as well! We ask that guests refrain from entering the Crandell if they are experiencing any COVID-19 or flu-like symptoms.

Enjoy fresh popcorn (avail-able with real butter), candy, and soft drinks while watching a film on the big screen.

July 8-10 showtimes are listed below.

Our calendar of upcoming films is always available online. Print copies are also available on Main Street in Chatham.JULY CALENDAR

HIT THE ROADFriday, July 8, 4 p.m.In Persian and English, Sub-

titled in English93 minutesDramaHit The Road follows a fam-

ily of four — two middle-aged parents and their sons, one a taciturn adult, the other an ebul-lient six-year-old — as they drive across the Iranian countryside.

Over the course of the trip, they bond over memories of the past, grapple with fears of the un-known, and fuss over their sick dog.

DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS

Friday, July 8, 7 p.m.Saturday, July 9, 7 p.m.Rated PG-13 | 126 minutesAction, Adventure, FantasyDoctor Strange teams up

with a mysterious teenage girl from his dreams who can travel across multiverses to battle multiple threats, including other-universe versions of him-self, which threaten to wipe out millions across the multiverse. They seek help from Wanda the Scarlet Witch, Wong and others.

THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM

Free Screening for Summer-fest

Saturday, July 9, 1 p.m.Rated PG | 91 minutesDocumentaryThe Biggest Little Farm

chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature. Through dogged perseverance and embracing the opportunity provided by na-ture’s conflicts, the Chesters un-lock and uncover a biodiverse design for living that exists far beyond their farm, its seasons, and our wildest imagination.

BITTERBRUSHSaturday, July 9, 4 p.m.Sunday, July 10, 4 p.m.90 minutesDocumentaryEmelie Mahdavian’s sweep-

ing documentary Bitterbrush follows Hollyn Patterson and Colie Moline, range riders who are spending their last summer herding cattle in remote Idaho. Totally off the grid with only

their dogs as companions, Hol-lyn and Colie brave inclement weather and perilous work con-ditions while pondering their futures.

THE WOBBLIESFilmmaker Deborah Shaf-

fer will join Peter Biskind, Vice President of Programming and FilmColumbia Co-Exec-utive and Artistic Director for a discussion and Q&A after the screening.

Sunday, July 10, 1 p.m.89 minutesDocumentaryFounded in Chicago in 1905,

the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) took to organizing unskilled workers into one big union and changed the course of American history. This com-pelling documentary of the IWW (or “The Wobblies” as they were known) tells the story of workers in factories, sawmills, wheat fields, forests, mines and on the docks as they organize and demand better wages, healthcare, overtime pay and safer working conditions.

This week at the Crandell

Bitterbrush

The Wobbles

The Biggest Little Farm

Hit the Road

Dr. Strange and the

Multiverse of Madness

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CALENDAR LISTINGS

JULY 9

UrinetownSaturday, July 9, 4 p.m.$45A side splitting sendup of greed, love, revolution, and musical the-ater itself. Inspired by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, Urinetown is hilariously funny, remarkably irreverent and touch-ingly sincere. The winner of 3 Tony Awards and 2 Obie Awards, this incredible satire leaves no one safe from scrutiny as it sur-veys societies established norms and foundational institutions.A dire water shortage, caused by a 20-year drought, has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens of Uri-netown are forced to pay a single malevolent company to use the only available amenities. One citizen of Urinetown decides that they’ve had enough. They plan a revolution to break the chain and lead the people to freedom!Originally planned for our 2020 season, this production of Uri-netown is two years in the mak-ing, finally hitting our stage for the first time ever. You are sure to love the ardent characters of this irreverent satire. Praised for reinvigorating the very notion of what a musical could be, Uri-netown catapults the “comedic romp” into the modern era. It’s outrageous, unscrupulous, and absolutely hilarious!Saturday, July 9, 4 p.m., http://www.machaydntheatre.org/ticket-information/Mac-Haydn Theatre, 1925 NY-203, Chatham, 518-392-9292

JULY 10

UrinetownSunday, July 10, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.$45A side splitting sendup of greed, love, revolution, and musical the-ater itself. Inspired by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, Urinetown is hilariously funny, remarkably irreverent and touch-ingly sincere. The winner of 3 Tony Awards and 2 Obie Awards, this incredible satire leaves no one safe from scrutiny as it sur-veys societies established norms and foundational institutions.A dire water shortage, caused by a 20-year drought, has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens of Uri-netown are forced to pay a single malevolent company to use the only available amenities. One citizen of Urinetown decides that they’ve had enough. They plan a revolution to break the chain and lead the people to freedom!Originally planned for our 2020 season, this production of Uri-netown is two years in the mak-ing, finally hitting our stage for the first time ever. You are sure to love the ardent characters of this irreverent satire. Praised for reinvigorating the very notion of what a musical could be, Uri-netown catapults the “comedic romp” into the modern era. It’s outrageous, unscrupulous, and absolutely hilarious!Sunday, July 10, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., http://www.machaydntheatre.org/ticket-information/Mac-Haydn Theatre, 1925 NY-203, Chatham, 518-392-9292

Sunset CruiseSunday, July 10, 7 p.m - 8:30 p.m.$20 – $30Get out on the river and relax workboat style. BYO Drinks / Snacks / Friends. Special Guest Captains throughout the season.:Sunday, July 10, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., https://www.catskillmountain-ferry.com/Henry Hudson Riverfront Park, Water Street (behind Amtrak Sta-tion) Hudson

Magdalene: I am the utterance of my nameSunday, July 10, 8 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.$20Playwright/performer Sylvia Milo and composer/percussionist Nathan Davis were in residency at PS21 to develop Magdalene: I am the utterance of my name, a music-theater piece about the web of clashing myths, beliefs, symbols, and decrees surround-ing the life of Mary Magdalene. The creators of The Other Mozart, about the forgotten genius sister of Amadeus, return this summer to complete work on their new play, with a public performance on July 10.Equal parts theater, experimental music performance, and ritual, the playwright and composer draw on a multitude of texts and sources—biblical, Gnostic, heretical, medieval, and mod-ern—the drama unfolds in seven apparitions of Mary Magdalene, portrayed by Milo. Davis plays

instruments both ancient and modern—hammered dulcimer, harmonium, and hand drums—interweaving the live sound design with field recordings from sites significant to the myths. Tickets: $20 general; $10 for stu-dents and youth!Sunday, July 10, 8 p.m. - 9:30 p.m., https://ps21chatham.org/event/magdalene/PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, 2980 NY-66, Cha-tham, 518-392-6121

JULY 12

Eve of DestructionTuesday, July 12, 6 p.m.Lebanon Valley Speedway’s An-nual Night of Mayhem!Stunts, Explosions, School Bus Race, Trailer Race, Relay Race, Long Jump Contest, Roll Over Contest, Hood & Trunk Race, Re-verse Race Along with 4-Cylinders & Street Stocks!The Front Gates Open @ 4 p.m.Show Starts @ 6pm—->>>>>All Seating Will Be As-signed Seating!Tuesday, July 12, 6 p.m., https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/leba-nonvalley/6384/event/1267298Lebanon Valley Speedway, 1746 US Route 20, West Lebanon, 518-794-9606

JULY 13

UrinetownWednesday, July 13, 2 p.m.$45A side splitting sendup of greed, love, revolution, and musical the-ater itself. Inspired by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, Urinetown is hilariously funny, remarkably irreverent and touch-ingly sincere. The winner of 3 Tony Awards and 2 Obie Awards, this incredible satire leaves no one safe from scrutiny as it sur-veys societies established norms and foundational institutions.A dire water shortage, caused by a 20-year drought, has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens of Uri-netown are forced to pay a single malevolent company to use the only available amenities. One citizen of Urinetown decides that they’ve had enough. They plan a revolution to break the chain and lead the people to freedom!Originally planned for our 2020 season, this production of Uri-netown is two years in the mak-ing, finally hitting our stage for the first time ever. You are sure to love the ardent characters of this irreverent satire. Praised for reinvigorating the very notion of what a musical could be, Uri-netown catapults the “comedic romp” into the modern era. It’s outrageous, unscrupulous, and absolutely hilarious!Wednesday, July 13, 2:00 pm, http://www.machaydntheatre.org/ticket-information/Mac-Haydn Theatre, 1925 NY-203, Chatham, 518-392-9292

JULY 14

Harmonies on the Hudson Con-cert Series: ShandyThursday, July 14, 6 p.m.Hailing from The Farm Music in Coxsackie, NY, Shandy is the husband-wife duo of Shannon and Andy Schober. Shandy spe-cializes in telling lyrically-driven stories by blending acoustic, folk and Americana around Shannon’s emotionally-charged voice and Andy’s deep harmonies. They perform a wide catalogue of cov-ers including the likes of Brandi Carlile, The Honeycutters, John Prine, Devil Makes Three, Old Crow Medicine Show as well as their own pieces.Due to mansion restoration work, this season of concerts will be held adjacent to the main parking lot, near the Arryl House ruins. Please bring a lawn chair or blanket, as seating will not be provided. Picnic dinners are welcome, but please leave your alcoholic beverages at home. Registration is recommended, but not required.Thursday, July 14, 6 p.m., https://www.friendsofclermont.org/event-details/harmonies-on-the-hudson-concert-series-featuring-shandyClermont State Historic Site, 1 Clermont Avenue, Germantown, 518-537-4240

Trivia ThursdayThursday, July 14, 6 p.m. - 8: p.m.LB Entertainment brings Trivia Thursdays – Come out and have some fun!!Thursday, July 14, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m., https://www.facebook.com/events/Hudson Brewing Compa-ny, 99 South 3rd Street, Hudson, 518-697-5400

HUDSON, — Celebrating the Hudson River – a source of inspiration and a means of livelihood to all who have lived along its shores – Hudson Hall is proud to present a free per-formance of River of Dreams on Saturday, July 23, 2022 at 7 p.m.. The recital features semi-staged excerpts of Frank Cuth-bert’s musical adaptation of the award-winning book of the same name by Hudson Talbott, directed by Jay Lesenger and performed by the children of Harmony Project Hudson and local young singers. The recital follows a three-week music and theater summer camp at Hud-son Hall for Harmony Project students. Reservations for the July 23 recital are recommended and can be made at hudsonhall.org or by phone at (518) 822-1438.

Like the book of the same name, River of Dreams is an en-tertaining and uplifting account of the Hudson River’s fascinat-ing history. Unknown to many, the river played a key role in the settling of the New World and the outcome of the Revolution-ary War and its significance as the birthplace of the modern environmental movement. Packed with fun facts and clever songs, the musical explores top-ics such as the Age of Explora-tion, the Erie Canal, the Indus-trial Age, Native Americans who inhabited its shores, and the river’s environmental degrada-tion and rebirth.

The story follows a boy named Hudson, who dreams of one day finding his way along the river to New York City. In do-ing so, he discovers the stories of the indigenous people, then the colonists, tradespeople and

artists who flocked to its shores. Staged by Jay Lesenger, the mu-sical was first produced in 2019 at the Bridge Street Theater in Catskill. River of Dreams was slated to be remounted at Hud-son Hall for the summer/fall of 2021, however due to COVID restrictions and an inability to schedule in-person rehearsals, the event was postponed until 2022. In the interim, Hudson Hall presented the first ma-jor retrospective of Hudson Talbott’s work in its first-floor galleries, also titled River of Dreams, June 11 – August 22, 2021.

“We are thrilled to finally bring the students of Harmony Project Hudson to Hudson Hall to share the lyrical and fascinat-ing story of River of Dreams,” says Tambra Dillon, executive director of Hudson Hall. “Chil-dren across the country have been enchanted by Hudson Tal-bott’s beautifully written and il-lustrated book since it was pub-lished in 2009, but it holds even more meaning to families here

in Hudson, New York, where the Hudson River holds such a key to our shared history – and future.”

ABOUT THE COLLABORA-TORS

Frank Cuthbert (Composer) is a composer and singer-song-writer. As musical director for Shakespeare on the Hudson in Catskill, New York, Cuthbert composed music for The Tem-pest and Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Led by filmmaker Josh Aron-son, Harmony Project Hudson is an affiliate of Harmony Proj-ect America, an award-winning research-based after school music program that promotes positive social and academic growth. Founded 18 years ago in Los Angeles, Harmony Proj-ect programs are now in seven states and serve thousands of K-12 students.

Jay Lesenger (Stage Direc-tor) has produced and directed more than two hundred opera productions for the New York

City Opera, Chautauqua Op-era Company, Atlanta, Hawaii, Milwaukee, New Orleans (the world premiere of Thea Mus-grave’s Pontalba), Opera Caro-lina, Opera Pacific, Palm Beach, Pittsburgh, San Diego, Virginia and many others. His European debut was with Opera Nord-fjord, Norway, and he has di-rected for Volkstheater Rostock in Germany. For 21 years, from 1994 to 2015, Jay was the Gen-eral and Artistic Director of the Chautauqua Opera Company, the longest serving general di-rector in the company’s history.

Hudson Talbott (author) has written and illustrated over 27 books for young readers in an illustrious career that spans 30 years. Over the course of his ca-reer, he has worked with Steven Spielberg on an animated film adaptation, and with Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine on the book version of their hit mu-sical Into the Woods.

In 2022, a musical adapta-tion of Show Way, the 2005 book written by Jacqueline Woodson and illustrated by Hudson Tal-bott, premiered at The Kennedy Center.

ABOUT HUDSON HALLHudson Hall (www.hudson-

hall.org) is a cultural beacon in the Hudson Valley, offering a dynamic year-round schedule of music, theater, dance, lit-erature, exhibitions, workshops for youth and adults, as well as family programs and large-scale community events such as Win-ter Walk.

Approximately 70% of Hud-son Hall’s programs are free of charge or subsidized to ensure equitable access to the arts.

HUDSON HALL PRESENTS

‘RIVER OF DREAMS’, A SEMI-STAGED RECITAL BASED ON THE AWARD-WINNING BOOK BY HUDSON TALBOTT

Illustration from Hudson Talbott’s “River of Dreams”

CATSKILL — Friday, July 22, 7 p.m.Saturday, July 23, 4 p.m. & 7 p.m.Sunday, July 24, 4PMTickets: $20 / $35 / $65Stars Above is an outdoor family friendly

circus show created by Drama Desk nomi-nees and founders of Hideaway Circus, Josh & Lyndsay Aviner. Set to original music and reimagined cover songs, Stars Above is a modern take on the nostalgic small touring circuses from two hundred years ago. Featuring an all-star cast of cir-cus performers and musicians, the show centers around a day in the life of a trav-eling family troupe. Combining elements of contemporary and classical circus, the show explores and celebrates our inter-woven connections to loved ones, com-munity, and what we’ve lost. The all-ages production is performed outdoors, under the vast canopy of sky and stars, on a cus-tom-built circular stage and aerial rig.

BUY TICKETS: https://www.event-brite.com/e/stars-above-catskill-ny-tick-ets-330775487387

GLEN FALLS — North Country ARTS is excited to announce a collection of new and upcoming exhibitions in Glens Falls, NY, starting with their Sandra Jabaut Exhibi-tion,

running through August 5 at their 2nd Floor Gallery at City Hall (42 Ridge Street.) This premiere exhibition, featuring the work of artist Sandra Jabaut. The gallery is open to the public Mondays - Fridays, 9am - 4pm.

NCA will also be hosting a Photography Show, July 9 - 30 at the Friends Gallery inside the Crandall Public Library in Glens Falls. This exhibition will feature work both profes-sional and amateur, and is open during regular library

business hours.And the public can also vis-

it the NCA main gallery inside The Shirt Factory building

(71 Lawrence Street, suite #120) to view their Transla-tion Exhibition, currently on display now through August

13. This exciting presentation

features a solo artist section

from the work of artist Pamela

Stendardi. The gallery is free

and open to the public Thurs-

day - Saturday, 12pm - 5pm

weekly.

About North Country ARTS

Based in Glens Falls, New

York, North Country Arts is a

non-profit cultural organiza-

tion established in 1971 for

artists, artisans and people

interested in the arts.North

Country Arts is a volunteer

run membership arts orga-

nization whose mission is to

provide opportunities, en-

courage and promote artists

in the North Country.

Upcoming and Current NCA Exhibitions

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Sports & Classifieds BSECTIONYanks flex their muscles

Yankees blast two grand slams in 16-0 vic-

tory over Pirates. Sports, B2

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Matt FortunatoColumbia-Greene Media

GRENPORT — After a double rainout on Tuesday, the Hudson River Collegiate Baseball League picked up Wednesday at Greenport Town Park.

The Rattlers defeated the Knights 7-3 at Greenport Park in Hudson, and the Storm beat the Bears 11-5 at Ricky Cramer Field in Catskill.

The Rattlers creeped up the standings with the victory and are 1 1/2 games back of the Knights for the number two

seed. Thanks to their win, the Storm distanced themselves atop the rankings by 1 1/2 games ahead of the Knights and three ahead of the Rat-tlers.

Matthew Denatale was ef-ficient for the Rattlers on the bump and earned the win after a three inning, no-hit, one run, and five strikeout performance. Knights’ start-ing pitcher Isaac Brown was pinned with the loss after giv-ing up seven runs on nine hits, walking three, and striking out seven over 3 2/3.

With one out in the top of the first, Sean Berry doubled for the Rattlers to get things started. Nathan Toms came up next and brought Berry home with an RBI base hit and put the Rattlers up 1-0. Isaac Brown escaped further dam-age however, after getting a fly out and a groundout to end the inning.

Jack Defayette worked a walk to lead off the bottom half for the Knights and then Dan Smith reached safely on an error by the second base-man. Christian Brown laid

down a sacrifice bunt back to the mound that was tough for Denatale to handle. He recov-ered quickly and just took the sure out at first base, flipping the ball from the ground for the out. Josh Foglia tied the game 1-1 with a groundout to third that allowed Defayette to score for the Knights.

Ahead in the top of the third, Joe Saia and Sean Berry were both hit by a pitch to be-gin the inning. Both runners moved into scoring position

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The Rattlers’ Nathan Toms follows through on an RBI single during Wednesday’s Hudson River Collegiate Baseball League game against the Knights at Greenport Town Park.

LOCAL ROUNDUP:

Rattlers beat Knights; Storm widen 1st place lead in HRCBL

Kristie AckertNew York Daily News

PITTSBURGH — Hal Steinbrenner is watch-ing what Aaron Judge is doing this season. The 29 homers to lead the ma-jors, carrying the offense and pushing the team. The Yankees’ controlling partner also knows all of that is going to cost him more money if the face of his franchise is going to be a Yankee beyond this season.

“Look, Aaron is a great Yankee, and he’s very valuable to the organiza-tion,” Steinbrenner said on a video conference call with reporters Wednesday afternoon. “He’s a great leader. Obviously, he’s performing extremely well this year and we’re all all thrilled about it. So look, any great Yankee, yes, it’s going to be something

we’re going to be looking at and talking about seri-ously. You know, it means a lot to the organization. Nobody’s gonna deny that.”

Steinbrenner said he was “hopeful” that Judge, who turned down an offer worth $230 million before opening day, would re-main a Yankee for a long time.

“Well, there’s no doubt we were hopeful that that is the case,” Steinbrenner said. “But there’s a lot of discussion to be had. And I’m always willing to talk of course. And we’re go-ing to be doing that at one point or another but we’re just not going to be talking about if that happens or if and when that happens. We’re not going to be talk-ing about anything till the

Hal Steinbrenner ‘hopeful’ that Aaron Judge will remain a Yankee long term

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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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In this photo from March 27, the New York Mets’ Jacob deGrom throws a pitch during a spring training game against the St. Louis Cardinals at Clover Park in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

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Rafael Nadal returns a shot during his quarter finals men’s singles match against Taylor Fritz on Centre court at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on Wednesday.

Deesha ThosarNew York Daily News

CINCINNATI — Jacob de-Grom will start Friday for the St. Lucie Mets at Daytona in what will be his second rehab start. Encouragingly, that means deGrom will remain on a five-day schedule as the ace ramps up his pitch count and intensity.

DeGrom is expected to throw 35-40 pitches and three innings on Friday. He struck out five of the six batters he faced in his first rehab assign-ment this past Sunday, hurling 24 pitches in 1 2/3 innings.

As far as how the Mets feel about the 100-mph fastballs

deGrom served up in his first time pitching a professional game in a year, well, it’s com-plicated.

“You see the velocity trend up and you see the injuries trend up, so it’s easy to make that correlation and I think there’s some validity to that, right?” Jeremy Hefner, Mets pitching coach, told the New York Daily News. “It’s very difficult in a competitive en-vironment for a very com-petitive person to slow down. I think it’s very easy to say: ‘Don’t throw as hard.’ But we don’t know the adverse effects of that. That could actually hurt him more than throwing

hard.”Hefner has talked to de-

Grom about dialing it back, but at the same time the Mets fully expect the ace to throw triple-digit heaters whenever he does make his season de-but. The club does not have enough evidence to prove that his velocity is directly the cause of his injuries over the past year-plus. Hefner believes the velocity concern surrounding deGrom will eventually level out once he gains more experience in the big leagues.

If the Mets had a list of

Mets’ deGrom set for second rehab start

Chuck CulpepperThe Washington Post

WIMBLEDON, England — One stadium had tranquility, the other a brouhaha. One had peace involving - good grief - Nick Kyrgios, the other that bedlam familiar around the planet in which gentle soul Rafael Nadal tries to clamber out from nine-tenths into the crypt.

Court No. 1 had the wildly talented but wildly wild Kyr-gios reaching his first Grand Slam semifinal on his 30th try, then tumbling onto his back onto the grass, then sitting in

his chair in reflection. Cen-tre Court had Nadal looking infirm enough that he might retire from the match, and the Californian Taylor Fritz trying all the complicated parsing therein, all while the crowd showed the weird knack of tennis crowds everywhere circa 2022, seeing a 22-time major winner like Nadal, the world’s utmost fighter, and reckoning he needs further, boomier encouragement.

As two tennis stadiums that sit almost shoulder to shoul-der at the All England Club lived their latest memorable

Wednesday, Kyrgios of Aus-tralia got done in a reasonable two hours, 13 minutes in best-ing the impressive Christian Garin of Chile 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (7-5). Nadal of Spain, but re-ally more so of Earth by now, withstood a meandering slog of four hours, 21 minutes with the still-rising Fritz by domi-nating that newfangled super-tiebreaker they use around here to decide fifth sets. He won 3-6, 7-5, 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (10-4).

“I never thought I would be

Rafael Nadal digs deep to beat Taylor Fritz in Wimbledon

quarterfinals

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ML Baseball

AMERICAN LEAGUEEast

W L Pct GBNY Yankees 58 23 .716 —Boston 45 36 .556 13.0Tampa Bay 44 37 .543 14.0Toronto 45 38 .542 14.0Baltimore 39 44 .470 20.0

Central W L Pct GBMinnesota 47 38 .553 —Cleveland 40 40 .500 4.5Chi. White Sox 39 41 .487 5.5Detroit 34 47 .420 11.0Kansas City 29 50 .367 15.0

West W L Pct GBHouston 53 27 .662 —Seattle 41 42 .494 13.5Texas 37 43 .463 16.0LA Angels 38 45 .458 16.5Oakland 28 56 .333 27.0

NATIONAL LEAGUEEast

W L Pct GBNY Mets 50 31 .617 —Atlanta 49 34 .590 2.0Philadelphia 43 38 .531 7.0Miami 39 41 .487 10.5Washington 29 54 .349 22.0

Central W L Pct GBMilwaukee 47 37 .560 —St. Louis 44 40 .524 3.0Chi. Cubs 34 48 .415 12.0Pittsburgh 33 47 .412 12.0Cincinnati 28 52 .350 17.0

West W L Pct GBLA Dodgers 51 29 .637 —San Diego 47 36 .566 5.5San Francisco 40 39 .506 10.5Arizona 37 44 .457 14.5Colorado 35 46 .432 16.5

American LeagueTuesday’s games

Baltimore 10, Texas 9, 10 inningsDetroit 11, Cleveland 4Tampa Bay 8, Boston 4Houston 9, Kansas City 7Minnesota 8, Chi. White Sox 2Oakland 5, Toronto 3

Wednesday’s gamesDetroit 8, Cleveland 2Chi. White Sox 9, Minnesota 8, 10 inningsToronto 2, Oakland 1Baltimore 2, Texas 1Tampa Bay (Kluber 3-5) at Boston (Bello 0-0), 7:10 p.m.Kansas City (Keller 3-9) at Houston (Javier 6-3), 8:10 p.m.

Thursday’s gamesKansas City (Bubic 1-5) at Houston (Verlander 10-3), 2:10 p.m.LA Angels (Silseth 1-2) at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.NY Yankees (Cole 7-2) at Boston (Winckowski 3-2), 7:10 p.m.Detroit (Brieske 1-6) at Chi. White Sox (Cease 7-3), 8:10 p.m.Toronto at Seattle (Gonzales 4-9), 10:10 p.m.

National LeagueTuesday’s games

Cincinnati 1, NY Mets 0Philadelphia 11, Washington 0Atlanta 7, St. Louis 1Chi. Cubs 8, Milwaukee 3Arizona 6, San Francisco 2LA Dodgers 5, Colorado 2

Wednesday’s gamesChi. Cubs 2, Milwaukee 1Atlanta 3, St. Louis 0NY Mets (Peterson 5-1) at Cincinnati (Ashcraft 4-2), 6:40 p.m.Washington (Gray 6-5) at Philadelphia (Nola 5-5), 7:05 p.m.San Francisco (Cobb 3-3) at Arizona (Kelly 7-5), 9:40 p.m.Colorado (Urena 0-0) at LA Dodgers (White 1-1), 10:10 p.m.

Thursday’s gamesPittsburgh (Contreras 2-2) at Cincinnati (Minor 1-5), 2:10 p.m.Washington at Philadelphia (Falter 0-2), 4:05 p.m.Miami (Castano 1-1) at NY Mets (Williams 1-5), 7:10 p.m.Pittsburgh (Wilson 1-4) at Cincinnati (Mahle 3-7), 7:10 p.m.St. Louis (Liberatore 2-1) at Atlanta (Strider 4-2), 7:20 p.m.Colorado at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.San Francisco (Webb 7-3) at San Diego (Mus-grove 8-2), 9:40 p.m.Chi. Cubs (Leiter Jr. 2-2) at LA Dodgers (Gonsolin 10-0), 10:10 p.m.

InterleagueTuesday’s games

Seattle 6, San Diego 2Miami 2, LA Angels 1Pittsburgh 5, NY Yankees 2

Wednesday’s gamesLA Angels 5, Miami 2NY Yankees 16, Pittsburgh 0

Pro basketball

WNBAEastern Conference

W L Pct GBChicago 15 6 .714 —Connecticut 14 8 .636 1.5Washington 13 10 .565 3Atlanta 10 11 .476 5New York 8 12 .400 6.5Indiana 5 18 .217 11

Western Conference W L Pct GBLas Vegas 15 6 .714 —Seattle 14 8 .636 1.5Los Angeles 10 11 .476 5Dallas 10 12 .455 5.5Phoenix 9 14 .391 7Minnesota 8 15 .348 8

Wednesday’s gamesMinnesota 81, Chicago 78Washington at Atlanta, 8 p.m.New York at Las Vegas, 10 p.m.

Thursday’s gamesChicago at Indiana, 7 p.m.New York at Phoenix, 10 p.m.Seattle at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

NBA SUMMER LEAGUESalt Lake City Summer League

Wednesday’s gamesOklahoma City 87, Memphis 71Utah vs. Philadelphia, 9 p.m.

Thursday’s gamesPhiladelphia vs. Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.Memphis vs. Utah, 8 p.m.

Las Vegas Summer LeagueThursday’s games

Orlando vs. Houston, 10 p.m.Detroit vs. Portland, 11:59 p.m.

Tennis

WIMBLEDONAt All England Lawn Tennis Club

London, EnglandPurse: eur14,496,000

Surface: GrassMen’s

SinglesQuarterfinals

Rafael Nadal (2), Spain, def. Taylor Harry Fritz (11), United States, 3-6, 7-5, 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (4).Nick Kyrgios, Australia, def. Cristian Garin, Chile, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (5).

Women’sSingles

QuarterfinalsSimona Halep (16), Romania, def. Amanda Ani-simova (20), United States, 6-2, 6-4.Elena Rybakina (17), Kazakhstan, def. Ajla Toml-janovic, Australia, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.

Transactions

BASEBALLAmerican League

Cleveland Guardians - Optioned LHP Alex Young and LHP Konnor Pilkington to Columbus (IL). Recalled RHP Nick Sandlin from Columbus (IL).Detroit Tigers - Designated LHP Sam Howard for assignment. Optioned RHP Will Vest and RHP Alex Faedo to Toledo (IL). Selected the con-tract of RHP Drew Hutchison from Toledo (IL).Minnesota Twins - Placed RHP Chris Archer on the 15-day IL, retroactive to July 2. Recalled RHP Josh Winder from St. Paul (IL).Tampa Bay Rays - Activated LHP Jeffrey Springs. Claimed SS Yu Chang off waivers from the Pitts-burgh Pirates. Optioned LHP Josh Fleming to Durham (IL). Transferred 2B Brandon Lowe from the 10-day IL to the 60-day IL.Texas Rangers - Optioned RHP Josh Sborz to Round Rock (PCL). Recalled RHP Spencer How-ard from Round Rock (PCL).

National LeagueArizona Diamondbacks - Claimed SS Sergio Al-cantara off waivers from the San Diego Padres. Designated RHP J.B. Wendelken for assign-ment. Recalled LHP Tyler Gilbert from Reno (PCL).

Mike PersakPittsburgh Post-Gazette

PITTSBURGH — For 13 in-nings this weekend, the Pirates stood toe-to-toe with the New York Yankees, the current top class of MLB. On Tuesday, the Pirates showed up and out-homered the Bronx Bombers en route to a victory. On Wednes-day, in the finale of the short two-game series between the teams, right-hander Mitch Keller evad-ed damage and looked relatively under control in a scoreless first four innings.

In the fifth, the dam began to leak. Keller allowed an inoppor-tune walk to Joey Gallo, a single to Isiah Kiner-Falefa and then a two-run single from DJ LeMa-hieu. In the sixth, he gave up back-to-back solo bombs to Josh Donaldson and Gallo, breaking the flood gates open altogether.

The three Pirates pitchers who immediately followed Keller were greeted unkindly. The Yankees plated at least one run facing each of them, includ-ing a five-run outburst in the eighth. Then the Pirates put infielder Josh VanMeter on the mound, the fifth time they’ve used a position player to pitch this season. He gave up six runs in the ninth, making it a 16-0 defeat. It’s the fourth time this season the Pirates have lost by 14 runs or more.

This was probably bound to happen to the Pirates eventually. They have obviously struggled to string together wins this sea-son, except, oddly, against the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Yankees. Entering Wednesday,

they had a 6-1 combined record against arguably the two best teams in baseball, though it should be noted that it was only one game against the Yankees.

New York, on the other hand, came into Wednesday’s game having lost two in a row, and they’ve only lost three games in a row on one occasion in 2022. The odds of the Pirates’ good run against elite teams persisting were probably not very good.

Still, the quickness with which the Yankees flexed their muscles was eye-opening.

It doesn’t take a rocket sci-entist to understand why. By

Spotrac’s numbers, the Yankees have an estimated 2022 payroll more than 3 1/2-times larger than that of the Pirates. That doesn’t necessarily guarantee success or failure, but it makes the margins for error much dif-ferent.

For instance, Gallo is slump-ing this season, but he’s a two-time All-Star batting seventh in the Yankees’ order. You could say the same for Donaldson, a former American League MVP batting sixth. So even though the Pirates held the Yankees’ of-fensive stars -- Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton -- in check for

most of the series, New York’s fallback plan sure isn’t bad.

On the other hand, the Pi-rates’ options are more limited. Third baseman Ke’Bryan Hayes and center fielder Bryan Reyn-olds, more than likely the most proven offensive entities on the roster, tried to rally early. Hayes singled up the middle against Yankees starter Luis Severino, and Reynolds doubled to put runners on second and third with nobody out. Rookie out-fielder Jack Suwinski popped out to second, designated hit-ter Daniel Vogelbach struck out looking and first baseman Yoshi

Tsutsugo rolled over to first.It’s not to say any of those

three are bad players, but they aren’t MVPs. Plus, the Pirates’ inability to manufacture runs in good opportunities this season continues to bite them. They never got another runner into scoring position, as the Yankees methodically shut the game down.

Then, to add insult to injury, the Yankees’ best player did show up after all. In the eighth inning with the bases loaded, Judge smoked an 0-1 fastball to left off Pirates reliever Manny Banuelos. A little on the nose, considering Banuelos was just recently designated for assign-ment and traded to the Pirates for cash considerations. This was his first appearance in the black and gold.

After VanMeter pitched the ninth, the Yankees trotted out right-hander Albert Abreu, with his 2.55 ERA, because he hadn’t pitched in a few days and they could afford to burn him, an-other example of the riches the Yankees have that the Pirates just don’t.

Obviously, one game doesn’t say everything about a season, and it definitely can’t illustrate the scope of two franchises en-tirely. It certainly won’t force the Pirates to spend $200 million a year, either.

But the Yankees showed their full powers on Wednesday and won, while the Pirates couldn’t put it together and lost. That has happened more often than not this season.

Yankees blast two grand slams in 16-0 victory over Pirates

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New York Yankees catcher Kyle Higashioka (66) celebrates his solo home run with center fielder Aaron Judge (right) against the Pittsburgh Pirates during the seventh inning at PNC Park on Wednesday.

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Shohei Ohtani gave up one unearned run in seven innings on the mound and had a two-out, two-run single at the plate that gave the Los Angeles Angels the lead for good in a 5-2 victory over the host Miami Marlins on Wednesday.

The Angels ended their los-ing streak at four games, while the Marlins’ winning streak was halted at six.

Ohtani (8-4) gave up two hits and walked three while striking out 10 and making 100 pitches. At the plate, Ohtani singled with two outs and the bases loaded in the fifth inning to drive in two and snap a 1-1 tie.

Marlins starter Trevor Rogers (4-7) gave up three runs in 4 2/3 innings. Miami finished with just three hits.

Tigers 8, Guardians 2Miguel Cabrera drove in three

runs, Kody Clemens homered and host Detroit completed a four-game series sweep of Cleveland.

Clemens scored two runs and drove in two more as the Tigers matched their longest winning streak of the season. Detroit starter Michael Pineda (2-3) al-lowed two runs and five hits in five innings to earn the win.

Cleveland starter Shane Bieber (3-5) gave up five runs and seven hits in 5 2/3 innings. Franmil Reyes hit a solo homer.

Rays 7, Red Sox 1Josh Lowe doubled twice,

drove in a run and scored in his first career game batting leadoff as Tampa Bay downed host Bos-ton.

Corey Kluber (4-5) crafted six shutout innings as the Rays won for the fifth time in six games. Randy Arozarena homered, doubled, drove in three runs and scored twice for the Rays, and Yandy Diaz went 2-for-3 with a double, two runs and two walks.

The Rays spoiled the debut of Red Sox top pitching prospect Brayan Bello (0-1), who allowed four runs on six hits in four in-nings. He walked three and fanned two as the Red Sox fell to 2-4 in July.

Dodgers 2, Rockies 1Cody Bellinger had three hits

and Mookie Betts delivered a game-ending infield single in

the ninth inning as Los Angeles rallied for a victory over visiting Colorado to finish a three-game sweep.

Dodgers starter Mitch White gave up just one run, which was unearned, over 5 2/3 innings, and he teamed with three reliev-ers to throw a combined one-hitter. Los Angeles won for the seventh time in the past eight games.

Jose Urena made an impres-sive debut for Colorado, giving up one run on five hits over 6 2/3 innings. The Rockies got their lone hit from Brendan Rodgers in the sixth inning, and it led to their only run.

Giants 7, D-backs 5Austin Slater drilled a two-

run, tiebreaking double in the top of the ninth inning to help San Francisco halt a season-worst, six-game slide with a vic-tory over Arizona in Phoenix.

Pinch hitter Darin Ruf slammed a tying two-run homer in the eighth inning for the Gi-ants, who overcame a 4-0 deficit to win for just the fourth time in their past 16 games.

Alek Thomas had a two-run single for the Diamondbacks, who failed to complete a three-game sweep of the Giants.

Cubs 2, Brewers 1P.J. Higgins hit a go-ahead RBI

double in the ninth inning as vis-iting Chicago bested Milwaukee to win the three-game series.

Higgins’ game-winning hit came off Josh Hader (0-2), who walked Patrick Wisdom to start the ninth. Wisdom stole second with one out before Higgins came through in the clutch with two outs as Chicago won for the sixth time in its past eight games.

The Cubs’ Rafael Ortega tied the game an inning earlier with an RBI single. Chicago’s Mychal Givens (5-0) provided one in-ning of relief to earn the win be-fore David Robertson notched his 12th save with a perfect ninth.

White Sox 9, Twins 8 (10)Eloy Jimenez hit a two-run

homer and had three RBIs in his return from the injured list and Leury Garcia delivered a game-ending single in the 10th inning as Chicago beat visiting Minne-sota.

Luis Robert and Andrew Vaughn added two-run home runs for the White Sox, who took their first lead of the day on Garcia’s winning hit. Jorge Polanco hit a pair of home runs and Luis Arraez had four hits for the Twins, who failed to hold the lead on five occasions.

Jose Ruiz (1-0) pitched a scoreless 10th inning to pick up

the victory. Twins left-hander Jovani Moran (0-1) didn’t record an out in the 10th.

Blue Jays 2, Athletics 1Matt Chapman homered for

the second consecutive day, Bo Bichette broke an eighth-inning tie with a solo shot and Toronto avoided a sweep at the hands of host Oakland.

Jose Berrios limited the A’s to one run in six innings and combined with two relievers on a four-hitter, allowing the Blue Jays to prevail in a low-scoring affair in which all three runs came on homers. Toronto halt-ed a five-game losing streak.

Ramon Laureano produced Oakland’s scoring with a homer leading off the sixth.

Orioles 2, Rangers 1Spenser Watkins tossed a

career-high 6 2/3 innings to help host Baltimore complete its first series sweep of the season, cour-tesy of a victory over Texas.

Baltimore’s Ryan McKenna had an RBI single in the sec-ond inning, and a second run scored on the same play thanks to a throwing error. The Orioles made the most of their four hits to match a season high with four straight wins.

Leody Taveras had an RBI double in the fifth inning and joined Nathaniel Lowe with two

hits for the Rangers, who have lost four in a row and six of their past seven games.

Nationals 3, Phillies 2Luis Garcia had two hits and

two RBIs, Yadiel Hernandez added three hits and an RBI and Washington rallied for a victory over host Philadelphia.

Juan Soto returned from a left calf strain and contributed two hits for the Nationals, who snapped a six-game losing streak. Washington starter Jo-siah Gray (7-5) allowed two runs in six innings and struck out a career-high 11.

Kyle Schwarber went 3-for-4 with two home runs for Phila-delphia. He became the first Phillie since Chase Utley in 2006 with consecutive multi-homer games. Philadelphia starter Aaron Nola (5-6) tossed 7 2/3 in-nings and gave up seven hits and three runs.

Braves 3, Cardinals 0Max Fried pitched six score-

less innings and earned his ninth straight win as Atlanta beat visit-ing St. Louis.

Fried (9-2) gave up five hits, one walk and struck out four to improve to 4-0 in his career against St. Louis. Marcell Ozuna and Eddie Rosario homered for the Braves in the fifth inning, and Travis d’Arnaud added an RBI double in the sixth.

The Braves have won the first three games of the series and have taken seven of their last nine. St. Louis has lost four straight for the first time this sea-son. Atlanta has won its last six games against the Cardinals.

Royals 7, Astros 4Hunter Dozier clubbed a two-

run home run and added an RBI double before a quartet of reliev-ers helped visiting Kansas City fend off Houston.

Dozier was one of three Roy-als to smack home runs off Cris-tian Javier (6-4). The Astros right-hander gave up five runs in five innings after pitching brilliantly in each of his previous two starts.

Brad Keller (4-9) got the win after allowing four runs in 5 2/3 innings. The Royals’ bullpen held down the Astros the rest of the way, with Scott Barlow toss-ing a scoreless ninth inning for his 13th save.

MLB ROUNDUP:

Shohei Ohtani fans 10, drives in two in win

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Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher Shohei Ohtani (17) delivers a pitch in the first inning against the Miami Marlins at loanDepot Park on Wednesday.

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on a pass ball, and Saia scored on another pass ball to retake the lead for the Rattlers 2-1.

Toms finished his at-bat and worked the walk to put runners on the corners with Berry now at third. Riley Nagle popped out to short for the first out, but then Noah Joly hit an RBI single to bring home Berry and make it 3-1. Lach-lan Rees got into the box with two outs and hit an RBI single as well, scoring Toms and ex-tending the lead to 4-1.

Denatale finished off his outing strong, and struck out the side in the bottom half to get the Rattlers back to the plate.

With one gone in the fourth, William Newcomb and Saia hit back-to-back base hits to put Rattlers on the corners once again. Both runners scored during Berry’s at-bat on pass balls as Berry worked a walk and the score was now 6-1 in favor of the Rattlers.

With two outs, Nagle moved Berry to second with a base hit, and Berry scored on a single by Noah Joly as the lead grew to 7-1. Jake Siter replaced Brown on the mound for the Knights, and he got Donavan Mier to fly out to left for out number three.

The Rattlers also went to the bullpen in the fourth and brought in Zack Gamache to relieve Denatale. After a leadoff walk to Dan Smith, Gamache got Christian Brown to fly out to left, and Foglia to ground into an inning-ending double play.

Defayette cranked a solo shot off of Gamache with one out in the bottom of the sixth, cutting the lead to 7-2. With two out, Gamache walked Brown and his night was of-ficially over at that point. The Rattlers brought in Carter Bach to finish the inning, and he got Foglia to ground into a

fielder’s choice for the third out.

The Knights had one last chance at the plate in the seventh to make something special happen with Bach still throwing for the Rattlers. Camdyn Ames singled to lead off the inning, and Derek DeLamater got a base hit as well after a Jeffrey Swift strike-out. Ames stole third base and then scored on an RBI single by Sam Larabee and the lead was now 7-3. Unfortunately for the Knights, Shawn Sawyer and Christopher Champlin struck out for the second and third outs and the Rattlers were victorious 7-3.

Storm 11, Bears 5Over at Ricky Cramer Field

in Catskill, the Storm poured it on at the plate and beat the Bears 11-5.

Colin Maloney notched the win for the Storm after a four-inning scoreless appear-ance of one-hit ball out of the

bullpen with seven strikeouts. Raymond White was on the

losing side for the Bears on a rough night on the hill. White lasted 3 1/3 innings and sur-rendered ten runs on nine hits, walked three, and struck out five in the losing effort.

Dylan Tierney went 3-for-5 for the Bears with two RBIs for the offense. Teammate Quinn Toomey was 2-for-4 with a pair of RBIs and scored once, and Carter Romansky and David Breakell had two-hit games as well for the Bears.

Jacob Yager went 2-for-4 for the Storm with a solo home run and two runs scored on the night. Luke Duffy also had two hits in four at-bats and drove in a run for the Storm. Ryan Bilka, batting behind Duffy in the lineup, had a hit in four tries with one RBI and a run scored. Chris Ubner and Bobby Facto each drove in two runs and crossed the plate once. And Ryan Ash and

Beth Greenwood went a com-bined 2-for-4 with four walks and four runs scored between them.

There was plenty of offense early in the contest, the Bears taking a 1-0 lead in the top of the first. But the Storm an-swered in the bottom half and put up a five-spot to go up 5-1 by the end of the first.

The Bears chipped away at the lead the next two innings and cut it to 5-4 by the bottom of the third. The Storm inched further away in the bottom of the third with one run to push the lead to 6-4.

The Bears pulled within a run of the lead again in the top of the fourth with one run to get it to 6-5. However the Storm exploded for another four runs in the bottom half to double up on their lead 10-5.

The Storm scored one more in the bottom of the sixth to make it 11-5 as Colin Maloney, Jimmy Lobombard, and Owen

Goodridge worked their relief roles to perfection and held the Bears at five runs the rest of the way.

The Storm came away with the 11-5 victory after the clutch bullpen performance and are atop the HRCBL standings by 1 1/2 games.

TRAVEL BASEBALLClippers 15U+ 10Outlaws 14U 3COXSACKIE — LJ Morse

ripped a triple, double and single with two RBI to lead the Columbia Clippers 15U+ to a 10-3 victory over the Greene County Outlaws 14U in Wednesday’s travel baseball game.

Hunter Kelly doubled for the Clippers (7-3). Colton Hutson, Ashton Hotaling and Shawn Lyons each had a single and an RBI and Antonio Troy, Alberto Rivera, Cam Elcox and Mike Morse all singled.

Aiden Sickler had two sin-gles for the Outlaws. Logan Walz added a single.

Hotaling (4k,3bb,1h), Kelly (2k,5bb,2r) and Elcox (1k,1r,1h) all pitched for the Clippers.

Jacob Wagoner and Walz shared mound duties for the Outlaws, striking out 11, walk-ing two and allowing 10 runs and 10 hits.

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The Rattlers’ Sean Berry (right) returns to the dugout after scoring a run in Wednesday’s Hudson River Collegiate Baseball League game against the Knights at Greenport Town Park.

Matt Fortunato/Columbia-Greene Media

The Rattlers’ Donavan Mier connects with a pitch during Wednesday’s Hudson River Collegiate Baseball League game against the Knights at Greenport Town Park.

Matt Fortunato/Columbia-Greene Media

The Knights’ Camdyn Ames follows the flight of his fly ball to right field during Wednesday’s Hudson River Collegiate Baseball League game against the Rattlers at Greenport Town Park.

season’s over.”At the exact halfway point of

the season, Judge, who is mak-ing $19 million this season after narrowly avoiding arbitration, has raised his price tag consider-ably. Besides leading the majors with 29 homers, Judge is slash-ing .281/.360/.612 with a .972 OPS.

Steinbrenner understands the value of that.

“I mean, it’s just been phe-nomenal. And not only his play on the field, but his leadership has been phenomenal,” Stein-brenner said. “He’s a guy that’s confident, a great talent and he believes in himself and that’s what you’re seeing this year. And we’re all thrilled.”

Perhaps the most impressive numbers Judge has put up this season are 299-79. That’s 299 at-bats and 79 games played. After years of injury issues, Judge has avoided injuries and missing significant time for the last sea-son and a half.

Judge came into 2022 ready to bet on himself. He was ready to go to an arbitration hearing for this year’s salary (the team and player settled in the middle with incentives) and at the self-imposed deadline, he said no to seven years at $30.5 average annual value that would have made him the highest paid posi-tion player per year (or AAV) in Yankee history, and the second-highest on the team behind Ger-rit Cole. It would have given him the second-highest AAV of an outfielder in the game, behind only Mike Trout.

That Yankees GM Brian Cashman laid bare the details of the deal he turned down irritat-ed the slugger and made it seem like there was some animosity there. Judge said that day that he’d wanted to keep it private.

“Well, to my knowledge, what we announced is what we of-fered, we knew that it was gonna get out anyway,” Steinbrenner said. “And as Cashman said, we wanted to be as transparent as possible.”

Steinbrenner said he had no regrets about how those negoti-ations went, though he did note that they had a limited window

last time because of the owners’ lockout.

“We made an offer that I feel was a very good one. It was based on the numbers of course, but it was also based in part on what (he) means to his orga-nization,” Steinbrenner said. “It was a combination of both. And we just didn’t get to deal with them. We had less time of course this offseason than we would normally because of the lockout and all but there’s no re-grets and we’re going to be hav-ing discussions at some point.”

And while Steinbrenner is pretty confident that they will have meaningful talks with Judge, don’t expect to hear about it before the Yankees sea-son ends -- whenever that may be.

“No matter what happens during the season, we’re not gonna give any updates or we’re just not going to do it. I mean, I completely agreed with Aaron, and still do. that in no way shape or form can this be a distrac-tion,” Steinbrenner said. “The sole focus is winning a champi-onship, that’s all anyone needs to worry about right now.”

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preventative measures for de-Grom, they would make sure the right-hander was follow-ing it. But Hefner does like the idea that, one day, deGrom will adapt the pitching me-chanics of veterans like Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer. Both Verlander and Scherzer will sit around 94-95 mph with their fastball, and then pull out a 97-98 mph heater in a high-leverage situation or when they feel they need to get out of a jam.

“He’s a young man com-pared to those guys,” Hefner said of deGrom. “It’s just un-precedented. There’s no one who’s been able to do what he’s been able to do. So you don’t really have anything ob-jectively to say, yes you should

slow down. Yes, you should throw 96 �mph3/8.

“I would rather a guy go out and be smooth and not nec-essarily overthrow, because I don’t think he’s overthrowing. I think he’s being smooth and letting the ball come out of his hand naturally. So I think just continuing that process. His body’s going to organize itself so that hopefully we avoid any future injuries, because there’s no guarantee.” Starting strong

Chris Bassitt will return from the COVID injured list and start against the Marlins on Friday at Citi Field. Bassitt (6-5, 4.01 ERA) missed two turns through the rotation after testing positive for the vi-rus last Friday. Bassitt was able to complete his usual bullpens and workload in his week side-lined and away from the team.

“He’s been good,” Buck Showalter said. “He’s ready

to go. He’s been working very diligently.”

Bassitt’s Friday return means Trevor Williams will likely make his final start in the rotation on Thursday. The spot starter has filled in for the starting five as the club navigated its injuries and in-consistencies, but he’s had an up-and-down adventure as a starter. Williams, who flew back to New York on Wednesday ahead of the Mets to be fully rested for his outing against the Marlins, is 1-4 with a 5.86 ERA in seven starts for the Mets this season.

The Mets’ upcoming prob-ables include Carlos Carrasco (9-4, 4.64 ERA) on Saturday against Miami, Taijuan Walker (7-2, 2.86 ERA) on Sunday in the series finale and Scher-zer (5-1, 2.26 ERA) in the series opener against the Braves on Monday in Atlanta. All three pitchers will be throwing on

an extra day of rest.Showalter said his starters

will fall where they fall and he’s not interested in rejigger-ing the rotation at this point in the season so that any one pitcher will face a team over the other.

“I just think that’s usually a recipe for overlooking one thing,” Showalter said. “Re-spect everybody. You can’t make one game, at this stage of the season, more important than the other one. Sometimes those things change as you go forward, but something you think is not a challenge on pa-per presents itself completely the opposite. So you have to

be careful thinking that way.” Getaway night game

The Mets on Wednesday played their first getaway night game of the season. The Mets will fly back to New York from Cincinnati late Wednes-day night, and likely reach their homes around 5 a.m. on Thursday. All of which will be followed by a Thursday night game against the Marlins at Citi Field. Suffice to say, their manager was not happy about it.

“I don’t know how they get away with it,” Showalter said on Wednesday. “We have no say in it at all. Unfortunately, we should be playing a day

game today. You think any-body cares? Everybody’s got a tale of woe. The schedule is what it is. It’s still a great way to make a living even if you don’t sleep.

“But it’s not good. It’s not good for the game, quite frankly. Puts some guys in harm’s way and also the level of play sometimes.”

Showalter said the team will be sleepy, lethargic and more susceptible to injury on Thurs-day following their quick turnaround. The skipper said he could keep going with rea-sons, but “nobody cares.”

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here,” Kyrgios, 27, said. “The ship, I thought, was gone.”

“No, they told me I need to re-tire the match, yeah,” Nadal, 36, said of the gestures of his father and sister in the Friends Box, and of his abdominal pain.

Now they steer toward one loud semifinal coming Friday - “a mouthwatering kind of en-counter for everyone around the world,” Kyrgios called it - provided Nadal and his pro-testing abdomen make it there. “Yeah, worried now honestly, no?” Nadal said. “That’s part of the business too, no?”

In the noiseless part of the afternoon, Kyrgios told of sitting at his chair and thinking of “how things can change” and “a point where I was almost done with the sport” and the bygone “self-harm and suicidal thoughts and stuff.” He said his lawyers advised him not to comment on the recent news at hand - a court appearance next month

in Canberra on assault charges from an ex-girlfriend.

“ ‘No, he doesn’t have the mental capacity,’ “ he quoted the many as saying through the years. “ ‘He doesn’t have the fit-ness capacity, he doesn’t have the discipline,’ all that. I almost started doubting myself with all that traffic coming in and out of my mind. I just sat there to-day and soaked it all in. There’s just so many people I want to thank.”

And in the clamorous part of the afternoon and early eve-ning, Nadal traipsed to the edge of doom again, as he had in the Australian Open final trailing Daniil Medvedev by two sets and looking decrepit, and in the French Open while playing on a foot he couldn’t be sure would function. An abdominal muscle did the threatening this time, and by the second set it clearly sapped some caliber from his backhand and his serve, the lat-ter often laced with uncharac-teristic meekness.

As Nadal ventured indoors for anti-inflammatories at one point, the lot of it did confuse the still-rising Fritz, 24 years

old and No. 14 in the world, as such a thing has many a player through time.

“It definitely made me kind of think,” said a big server whose heady year includes a win over Nadal in the final at Indian Wells in February. “I kind of stopped being as aggressive. I feel like I let it kind of get to me a little bit. It looked for a bit like he wasn’t moving so well for some shots, and then obviously the serve lost some speed. But I feel like toward the end of the second, we played some really long ral-lies where I was running him side to side and he was making some gets that I don’t think a lot of normal players would be get-ting to.”

At that point, he said, “I was like, All right, from the ground I can’t treat it like he’s injured.”

Also indoors right around that time, Kyrgios spoke with-out fanfare, nothing like the mid-match and post-match circus of his second-round win over Stefanos Tsitsipas. This player, ranked No. 40 but No. 1 as an epicenter of commotion, said he’d been looking at his phone less and staying at his

house more, which has “not al-ways been the easiest thing for me over my career.” He hadn’t even tried any trick shots against Garin, and he raved about Ga-rin’s forehand return, as Garin, ranked No. 43, said, “Today he played very solid all the match. I didn’t see anything weird. Yeah, he deserved to win today because he’s also a great, great player.”

Kyrgios: “I obviously had thoughts the last year, year and a half, whether I wanted to play anymore. Lost the love, lost the fire, lost the spark.”

Nadal never had such thoughts in life, of course, so he began to feel the adrenaline or the anti-inflammatories or the esteemed court and the rowdy crowd. “I won because I played very good from the baseline,” he said, his Grand Slam record at 19-0 for this year. “Of course, I didn’t win because of the serve. It’s obvious.”

He kept thinking he might re-tire, as he has done in three pre-vious Grand Slam matches, but then, “I did it a couple of times in my tennis career. Is something that I hate to do it. So I just keep

trying, and that’s it.”By the closing strains of the

fifth set, as Nadal broke Fritz for 4-3 but Fritz broke Nadal for 4-4, Nadal’s ground game had become downright impen-etrable. Injury had gone some-where. Fritz actually felt more flummoxed by Nadal’s softer serves because he couldn’t use the pace. Fritz’s unforced errors had gone from two in the first set and three in the third to 10 in the fourth and 11 in the fifth.

“I was absolutely ripping the ball in corners,” Fritz said, “and he was running and ripping them back for winners, so …”

Yet Fritz saw no gamesman-ship. He figured Nadal felt the abdomen creak and probably worried about the severity of a possible tear. “Maybe that ex-plains how the movement for a couple of games was not as, maybe, like, explosive,” Fritz said.

By the time they made it to the tiebreaker after 7 p.m. un-der the light-blue sky of the 51 North latitude, Nadal became the player who had experienced 33 previous Grand Slam five-setters. He ripped a backhand

pass for 1-0. He went error-free all the way to 5-0. Fritz got to 5-3, but Nadal roared from there and finished on his serve with a groundstroke cross-court for a clean winner and 10-4 and fur-ther bedlam.

“I mean, it’s Nadal,” Fritz said, smiling at his fate of an un-derdog unsupported. “How can you question anybody wanting to cheer for him?” Still: “I really, really wanted this match.” And: “I’ve never felt like I could cry after a loss,” but Wednesday he came close. And: “Honestly, probably hurts more than any loss I’ve ever had.”

He had lost to Nadal’s Laza-rus role like others before him, so on went Nadal, even as he called Wednesday “the worst day” with “an important in-crease of pain and limitation,” and even as he wondered about Friday and said, “There is even something more important than win Wimbledon, that is the health,” and even as most who have witnessed his towering perseverance probably didn’t believe him all that much.

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RALEIGH, N.C. — When Oklahoma and Texas announced their intention to jump to the SEC last summer, it felt like distant thunder on the horizon in ACC country. Concerning, maybe even menac-ing, but not imminently threatening.

But when the Big Ten poached UCLA and Southern Cal from the Pac-12 last week, the call was coming from inside the house. Not only be-cause it made a final mockery of the eminently mockable Alliance between the ACC and Big Ten and Pac-12, but because if the Big 12 had been ripe to fall, the Pac-12 and ACC were supposed to be equally secure.

Now all bets are off. The ACC as we know it is under deep existential threat from not only the Big Ten and SEC, but from its partner in its name-sake network. In a world where Fox and ESPN, the unseen forces driving conference realignment at any cost, have already picked the two winners of how this is all going to turn out, the ACC isn’t one of them.

The question isn’t so much whether the ACC can be saved. It’s whether, for those schools that may have options, it’s even worth saving at this point. A tragedy for the ACC and college sports

That the latter is even a consideration is a trag-edy not only for the ACC and its fans but college athletics at large. This entire enterprise was once built on the idea of like-minded, geographically congruent institutions competing against their peers. In many ways, it’s what made college sports great in the first place, whether it was the Ivy League or the Sedgefield Seven deciding they were a better fit together than in the Southern Conference, and how right they were for almost 70 years.

But the networks don’t care about any of that, nor do the college presidents who allegedly over-see this mess and have chased the dollars even if it means cross-country flights for cross-country runners. There’s not even a vague academic pre-text to this, just hoarding of assets. As the Big Ten and SEC continue to consolidate their power, it’s

hard to conceive any way the ACC can keep up. It’s already $25 million per school per year behind, and that gap is likely only going to grow.

Notre Dame, long the ACC’s Great Golden Domed Hope, would be foolish to join as a full member now when the Big Ten can offer tens of millions more. The ACC missed its chance with the Irish during the pandemic, potentially a fatal error. Some sort of Alliance Part Deux with the Pac-12 sounds vaguely promising but doesn’t ac-tually offer that much without UCLA and USC and Notre Dame football.

ACC commissioner Jim Phillips didn’t create this mess, other than putting his misplaced faith in his Alliance peers - they looked each other in the eye and he ended up with egg on his face - but he’s

going to need a miracle to fix it. He’s going to need a miracle just to hold the ACC together as it is; the grant of rights that ties schools to the ACC through 2036 loses strength with each passing year, if it will even hold up in court. Can the grant of rights hold up?

On paper, the grant of rights is imposing, pro-hibiting schools from selling their own television rights as long as it’s in effect. In the hands of the right lawyers, or buried under enough money, it may only be paper-thin. No one really knows. If the few ACC schools with options are really smart, they weren’t teleconferencing with their lawyers last week to look for loopholes; they will have had that question asked and answered already.

North Carolina is certainly one of them, the

one ACC school that’s unquestionably attractive to the Big Ten with its national brand and public-school academic prestige. If both sides are smart, that’s only a matter of timing and logistics now - and who else goes along for the ride.

Duke’s basketball pedigree is probably worth something to Fox - those two games a year alone may be worth it - but like the Bizarro Seinfeld friends, the Big Ten already has a Duke. If the North Carolina General Assembly was really on top of things, it would have acted as news broke on the final day of the legislative session to yoke N.C. State to UNC in perpetuity, taking a lesson from the way Virginia politicians shoehorned Virginia Tech into the ACC. There may still be time in Janu-ary.

On the plus side, if UNC departs the ACC the state would be off the hook for $15 million, be-cause the handout for a new ACC office was predi-cated on a conference with four charter members in NC - in which case the South Atlantic Confer-ence should definitely move across the border from Rock Hill and send the legislature an invoice. It’s not personal. It’s strictly business.

Clemson, Florida State and Miami are all at-tractive to the SEC in different ways, never mind the irony of how Miami’s failure to remain nation-ally relevant in football helped put the ACC in this weakened position in the first place. And if Notre Dame’s off to the Big Ten as well, the ACC could potentially become a nine-team conference with Virginia and Wake Forest and Duke or N.C. State stuck with a bunch of Big East leftovers.

What’s left of the ACC will have become what it once swore to destroy.

This all isn’t inevitable at this point. It just feels that way. And love of and loyalty to the ACC aside, finding a way out of the grant of rights and into one of the two power conferences left standing would be the smart move for UNC and Notre Dame and Clemson and the others. It’s not personal. It’s strictly business.

You can’t put a price on decades of tradition, and therein lies the problem.

As Big Ten, SEC consolidate their power, the ACC finds itself under existential threat

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A general view of first quarter game action on the midfield logo during the ACC Championship game

between the Pittsburgh Panthers and the Wake Forest Demon Deacons at Bank of America Stadium

on Dec. 4 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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The August bout between YouTube star Jake Paul and Tommy Fury is off for the second time after the latter was barred entry into the United States last week.

Sports Illustrated reported that Paul is finalizing a deal with Hasim Rahman Jr. to take Fury’s spot on the card on Aug. 6 at Madison Square Garden in New York.

It’s still unclear why Fury was denied entry. He was try-ing to fly to New York to take part in a press conference to promote the fight but instead was denied entry at London’s Heathrow Airport.

Paul took to Twitter on Wednesday to say his com-pany Most Valuable Produc-tions “did everything it could 2 help him & team.”

“He wasn’t interested & he literally went into hiding,” Paul tweeted.

For his part, Fury took to Instagram still hopeful that the fight could take place somewhere else – other than

the States.“I’m gutted and disap-

pointed in regards to the is-sues I have faced with entry into the United States,” Fury posted. “This is something that myself or my team could have never anticipated hap-pening. This situation has been left with my lawyers as being denied entry into a country is obviously a very serious issue and it needs to subsequently be resolved.

“I want to clarify that I will fight in a neutral country that both parties can enter,” he went on. “This can be any time, any place, anywhere.”

Paul and Fury, the half-brother of heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, were supposed to fight in Decem-ber in Tampa, Fla., but Fury had to pull out due to a frac-tured rib.

Rahman, 31, is the son of ex-heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman. Rahman Jr. is 12-1.

Jake Paul-Tommy Fury bout is off againField Level Media

Zion Williamson put pen to paper on Wednesday, signed his name, looked up and said “I’m locked in, baby.”

That’s the phrase the New Orleans Pelicans have been waiting to hear. Williamson firmed up his commitment to the team on his 22nd birthday by signing a five-year deal that could be worth up to $231 mil-lion.

Asked where this ranks among birthdays, Williamson said, “Number one.”

The deal is worth at least $193 million with escalators for winning MVP honors, be-ing named Defensive Player of Year or making an All-NBA team.

There are no player options in the contract so Williamson will be part of the Pelicans for five seasons, barring a trade.

Williamson missed all of last season due to a broken right foot and has played in just 85 games over his first three sea-sons. He said he is eager to re-turn to the floor healthy.

“Thank y’all for believing in me,” Williamson said. “Just giving a kid like me a chance

to showcase my abilities and hopefully help bring the team multiple championships. Thank y’all for sticking with me the past year.

“On my birthday last year, I found out I broke my foot. I was out the whole year. It was a tough year. For the Pelicans to come give me this birthday gift, I’m not going to let them down. I’m not going to let my family down. I’m not going to let the city down. And most im-portantly, I’m not going to let myself down.”

The No. 1 overall pick in the 2019 NBA draft from Duke has been productive when healthy. He has averaged 25.7 points and 7.0 rebounds while shoot-ing 60.4 percent from the field.

Williamson was an All-Star in the 2020-21 season, when he averaged 27.0 points and 7.2 rebounds per game in 61 con-tests.

On June 11, Williamson expressed to reporters that he wanted to remain with the club.

Less than a month later, Pelicans owner Gayle Benson was happy to lock up the young star.

“We are building a founda-tion of sustained success. We have a wonderful mix of young talent and veteran leadership and adding Zion long-term to this roster is something that I know our fans are very excited to see come together on the floor this season and for many seasons to come,” Benson said in a statement. “Zion’s talents are not only transformative on the court, but his commitment to our community, our city and region will also be transforma-tive. What a wonderful birth-day for him and his family.”

New Orleans executive vice president of basketball opera-tions David Griffin said the best is still to come for Williamson.

“Zion is an astounding 22-year old talent, who we believe is just scratching the surface of what he is capable of, both on and off the floor,” Griffin said. “We are extremely pleased to take this next step of our collective journey to-gether.”

There was heavy specula-tion last season that William-son didn’t want to be with the Pelicans long-term. He addressed that type of talk on

Wednesday, saying it was a “roller coaster of emotions” for him and his family.

“In the beginning of the sea-son, I told the world, ‘If y’all ev-er want to know if I want to be here.’ Instead of asking me, the world just ran with narratives,” Williamson said. “So when my family was going out in pub-lic on why we don’t like New Orleans, why we don’t want to be here when that’s not the case at all. I wasn’t able to play because my foot was broke. So that sucked.

Williamson resumed bas-ketball activities on May 26 and will enter training camp fully healthy.

The Pelicans made the play-offs without him as Brandon Ingram and CJ McCollum led the way. New Orleans also has promising young players such as Herb Jones and Jose Alvara-do.

“I want to prove that I’m a winner,” Williamson said. “It’s as simple as that. I want to win with coach (Willie Green) as well as with my teammates. The ultimate goal is to win the championship. I feel like that’s what we’re all striving for.”

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who remain unaware of how their behavior is af-fecting you indirectly.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Now is no time to complain about something that no one can do anything about. Instead of pointing out the obvi-ous, work to overcome its effects.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You have one or two new tricks up your sleeve today, but you must hold them in reserve until someone has pushed you into a corner.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You’re in no mood to be in charge of anyone or anything, but you must tend to a few responsibilities be-fore taking time for yourself.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You have a bit of bad news to give to someone, but you must think of a way to soften the blow before deliver-ing the message yourself.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You are in a position to tell others how certain things are done, but you needn’t do so in a way that sparks resentment or animosity, surely!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You are plugged in to things in a way that gives you a more valu-able perspective than anyone else enjoys. Deci-sions come easily.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You needn’t lis-ten to what others say about you today. Some of it will be true, some will not, and all of it has more to do with them than you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You may be trying too hard to escape notice today, which is actually making it impossible for you not to be seen. Think of another way.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You will want to go over a certain plan at least one more time before putting it into motion. Someone in your care is depending on you.

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Dear Abby,My husband and I have inherited four

dogs from relatives. I was out of state for a month (my husband was home) when two of them were dognapped, driven 42 miles away and aban-doned in the wilderness. I suspected who had done it right away, but when I heard where the dogs had been abandoned, I knew without a doubt. We were lucky: One dog was micro-chipped, which eventually led him back to us. Both were cared for by rescue founda-tions until I could bring them home.

The person who did it is our son’s girl-friend -- and the mother of his child. We are appalled and feel betrayed and sickened. My son admitted he knew she had done it. He showed remorse and gave a heartfelt apology. She has completely avoided us, with no admission or apology.

Should we press charges for stealing our dogs and abandoning them? They live on our property in a home we own, and pay nothing to live here. She and I used to be close. Now my husband and I no longer want to have her around. All trust is gone. Please advise me how to deal with this.

Victim in Ohio

Did the dogs do anything to threaten the girlfriend or your grandchild? If the answer is yes, then those animals present a danger. If the answer is no, tell your son you plan to press charges against his girlfriend for theft and animal cruelty, and you expect him to corroborate that she was the perpetrator. If he refuses, give them a date by which they should be off your property.

Dear Abby,I recently lost my precious husband of 43

years to COVID. Needless to say, this is a very painful time for me. Since his passing, my “best friend” has been blowing me off if we have plans, and no longer calling or texting at all. I don’t get it. I have done a lot for her during our friendship.

I’m experiencing the hard-est time in my life, and I really

need a friend. Now I’m not only grieving the loss of my husband, but I am also grieving a lost friendship and don’t understand why. Aside from confronting her, is there anything I can do?

Lonely and Sad in Nevada

Please accept my sympathy for the loss of your husband. That your friend is behaving the way she has been is regrettable. Before confronting her, please let me suggest some things you can do: Join a grief support group if you don’t already belong to one. Your doctor or religious adviser can direct you to one. Stay physically and mentally active, which will give you less time to brood.

After that, you can decide whether it’s in your interest to confront this person for her inability or unwillingness to be present for you when you needed her most. Do NOT expect her to magi-cally change if you do this, but it may provide you the opportunity to get what’s bothering you off your chest, which you are certainly entitled to do.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Ange-les, CA 90069.

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