Oprah to speak to Skidmore grads
Onward to semifinals
Oprah Winfrey will give a commencement
speech at Skidmore College’s graduation.
Lady Rams top Lansingburgh in a 61-46
quarterfinal victory Thursday.
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AMSTERDAM, N.Y.
VOL. 136, NO. 163
Friday
February 24, 2017
75 CENTS
Amsterdam eyes
BOA designations
for two more sites
By JOHN PURCELL
Recorder News Staff
Amsterdam officials are looking to secure two additional
Brownfield Opportunity Area
designations to spur economic
development and investment in
the city.
Danielle Whelly, economic
development specialist for the
Montgomery County Business
Development Center, is working
with city officials to file applications for state funding to complete
nomination studies for two proposed Brownfield Opportunity
Areas for the East End and
Northern Neighborhoods area.
After the studies are completed,
the city could apply to receive
each brownfield designation from
the state.
Amsterdam Mayor Michael
Villa said securing a Brownfield
Opportunity Area (BOA) designation offers developers an
opportunity to receive tax incentives, which could help spur
investment. Villa said local officials are very confident the proposed brownfields fit the necessary criteria of the program.
“It’s just another tool for us to
try to attract businesses and continue the growth we’ve been seeing both in private and public
sector,” Villa said.
In August 2016, the state granted Amsterdam its Waterfront
Heritage Area BOA, which spans
approximately 104 acres across
the city’s South Side and downtown areas. This BOA includes
14 brownfield, vacant or underutilized sites. The former
Chalmers Knitting Mills site is
located within this designation.
Jody Zakrevsky, executive
director of the Amsterdam
Industrial Development Agency,
said receiving state grants for
projects becomes more likely,
because funding is prioritized for
projects within brownfield areas.
Zakrevsky pointed to $500,000
AIDA was awarded last month to
redevelop
the
former
Professional Wrestling Hall of
Fame building, which is located
within Amsterdam's Waterfront
Heritage Area BOA. The funds
will assist Cranesville Properties
LLC with its plan to redevelop
the building’s retail and residential usages.
Tax incentives such as new
market tax credits could spur
developers to reconstruct buildings within the brownfield area,
Zakrevsky said.
He said the tax advantages and
grant opportunities offered through
a brownfield designation helps
businesses looking to expand or
relocate into such an area.
“There’s a whole host programs
that are available and this is just
another one that would make it
Please see BOA,
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AN
John Purcell/Recorder staff
ELECTRIC
DISCOVERY
The Walter Elwood Museum
held a program for children
Thursday focused on the
invention
of
electricity.
Approximately 15 children
learned about what life was
like before electricity and saw
some of Thomas Edison’s
inventions. Participants made
their own lantern.
ABOVE: From
left,
Ann
Peconie, executive director of
the Walter Elwood Museum,
operates a military record player while Sadie Brodie, Suzanna
Hunter and Mason Meyer listen
to the music being played.
RIGHT: Ryan Wheeler, of
Amsterdam, cuts pieces of tissue paper for his lantern. See
more photos, page 6.
County planners approve Aldi expansion
By MORGAN FRISCH
Recorder News Staff
FONDA — The Montgomery
County
Planning
Board
approved a referral from the
town of Amsterdam Thursday for
an expansion project at the Aldi
on Route 30.
The site plan referral will now
be sent back to the town for final
approval.
APD Engineering & Architecture
sent the town planning board a letter stating they would like to
remodel the existing Aldi located
on 4888 Route 30, on the west side
of Perth Road and one block north
of the intersection of Perth and Golf
Course Road. The remodel would
include a building expansion of
3,366 square feet and the associated
Please see ALDI,
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Inside
Classifieds . . . . . . .10-13
Comics . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Entertainment . . . .14-15
Happenings . . . . . . . .2-3
Lottery numbers . . . . . .4
Nation/world . . . . . . .7, 9
Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . .4
Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Sports . . . . . . . . . .17-24
Rain with
highs in the
60s.
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Morgan Frisch/Recorder staff
Montgomery County Senior Planner and GIS Specialist Amanda
Bearcroft points to a site plan for an Aldi expansion project Thursday
during the Montgomery County Planning Board meeting.
Hagaman
board adopts
new noise law
By MORGAN FRISCH
Recorder News Staff
HAGAMAN — The village
board of trustees adopted an
amended noise law Tuesday which
officials say has “more teeth”.
The village held a public hearing on Feb. 13 and answered community questions about the proposal. The purpose of replacing
the existing law is to eliminate
unnecessary noise in the village.
“We hashed it over for almost
two years and it was long overdue,” Trustee Robert Palmatier
Please see HAGAMAN,
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LOCAL
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WHAT’S HAPPENING
Today
FONDA
The Frothingham Free
Library, 28 W. Main St., will
hold a Children’s Concert with
Gary VanSlyke at 2 p.m.
Registration required. For
more information, contact the
library at 853-3016 or log on
to fonlib.blogspot.com.
MINAVILLE
The Fort Hunter Free Library,
167 Fort Hunter Road, will hold
their Preschoolers Story Hour
from 10 to 11 a.m. in the
library. The event includes
story time, crafts, exercise,
music and snacks. For more
information, call 829-7258.
MINAVILLE
The Fort Hunter Free Library,
167 Fort Hunter Road, will host
a “Beat the Winter Blues” Line
Dancing event from 7 to 8 p.m.
in the former town hall next to
the library. No experience necessary, instructor will lead the
group.
Saturday
AMSTERDAM
The Amsterdam Free
Library, 28 Church St., will
hold Makerspace: Science
Lab Fossils and Paleontolgy
at 10:30 a.m.
CANAJOHARIE
The Palatine Settlement
Society will hold its annual
Antique Show and Sale at the
Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd.,
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The
admission cost is $5;
appraisals for one item is $5,
or three for $10. The show is
to benefit the restoration of
the 1747 Nellis Tavern n St.
Johnsville. For more information, call Donna Reston, show
manager, at 843-1601.
FORT PLAIN
The Fort Plain VFW, 32
River St., will hold a fundraising Chicken Barbecue from
noon until food is sold out.
FULTONVILLE
Fonda-Fultonville United
MAYFIELD
The Mayfield United
Methodist Church, 19 N. Main
St., will serve a complimentary pancake supper from 4 to
6:30 p.m. The menu includes
pancakes, sausage, bacon,
beverages and more. For
more information, call Sandy
Aesch at 725-6309.
Wednesday
Photo submitted
From left, Village Trustee Martin Callahan, FFA members Connor Countryman, Liam Sammons,
Laura Littrell, Casey Watston, Jacob Battisti and chapter advisor, Chris Smith.
St. Johnsville recognizes local FFA chapter
ST. JOHNSVILLE — National Future Farmers of
America Week kicked off on Feb. 18 and will culminate on Feb. 25. In recognition of the week, Mayor
Bernard Barnes and members of the St. Johnsville
Village Board honored and recognized the local chapter, Mohawk Valley FFA, at a recent board meeting. To
that end, Trustee Martin Callahan presented the group
and their advisor, Chris Smith, with a proclamation.
National FFA Week always runs the week encompassing Feb. 22, President George Washington’s
birthday. The weeklong tradition began in 1948 in
recognition of Washington’s legacy as an agriculturist and farmer.
Founded in 1928, the organization’s mission is to
Methodist Church, 11
Montgomery St., will hold a
corned beef and cabbage family style dinner from 4 to 7 p.m.
Tickets are $12 for adults, $5
for kids ages 6 to 12 and free
for children 5 and under.
FULTONVILLE
The annual Soup Sampler
fundraiser will be held at the
Glen Firehouse on Auriesville
Road from 4 to 7 p.m. Tickets
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prepare future generations for the challenges of
feeding a growing population. Today, FFA continues to help members develop their own unique talents while exploring their interests in a broad range
of career pathways.
The National FFA Organization provides leadership, personal growth and career success training
through agricultural education to nearly seven hundred thousand students whose members belong to
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Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands.
Mohawk Valley FFA, based at the OppenheimEphratah-St. Johnsville Central School District,
currently has 16 members drawn from grades 7-12.
are $7 for adults and $4 for children ages 6 to 12, free for children under 5. The soup sampler
will benefit the Capital Region
chapter of CURE SMA (Spinal
Muscular Atrophy) in honor of
the Kelly family. For more information, call 922-7051.
JOHNSTOWN
The First Presbyterian
Church, 37 S. Market St., will
host a Mardi Gras party from
3:30 to 6:30 p.m. with live
music by the "Dixie Land
Band." Food will be available.
For more information, call the
church, at 762-8263.
MAYFIELD
The Mayfield Community
Winter Carnival will be held at
the Mayfield Lake Pump
House Road from 8 a.m. to 3
p.m. The event includes a
youth fishing contest, frying
pan toos, broom ball, ice
bowing, polar dip and more.
MAYFIELD
The Paul Nigra Center for
Creative Arts, 2736 Route 30,
will hold a Meet the
Instructors Open House and
Soup Cook-off, from noon to
3 p.m. Admission is free but
$5 for samples of soup.
Sunday
AMSTERDAM
St. Ann’s Episcopal Church,
37 Division St., will hold its
community meal from 11:30
a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the
parish hall. The menu is macaroni and cheese with ham,
vegetable, rolls and dessert.
JOHNSTOWN
Horse Lover Unlimited 4H
Club will hold a flapjack
fundraiser at Applebees, 223
N. Comrie Ave., from 8 to 10
a.m. A pancake breakfast is
$5. The money will help buy
supplies for upcoming projects, community service
opportunities, day trips and
the end of year camping trip.
Monday
AMSTERDAM
The Amsterdam Free Library,
28 Church St., will hold
Preschool Story Hour: “If You
Give a Moose a Muffin,” by
Laura Numeroff at 10:30 a.m.
AMSTERDAM
The Horace J. Inman Senior
Center, 53 Guy Park Ave., will
hold a yoga class from 3 to 4
p.m. The cost per class for
members is $2, non-members
$3, and for one year, $30.
AMSTERDAM
The Amsterdam Free
Library, 28 Church St., will
hold a genealogy and family
tree creation class at 6 p.m.
Tuesday
AMSTERDAM
The Horace J. Inman Senior
Center, 53 Guy Park Ave., will
hold a free Tai Chi class for
arthritis from noon to 1 p.m.
AMSTERDAM
St. Stanislaus Church will hold
a chicken and biscuit dinner in
the church hall, 50 Cornell St.,
from 4 to 6:30 p.m. Menu
includes salad, chicken and biscuit, homemade cake and a
beverage. Tickets are $10 for
adults and $5 for children ages
12 and under. Tickets are available before and after all Masses
and at the parish office. For
more informatio, call 842-2771.
BROADALBIN
St. Joseph’s Church will
host bingo in the parish center at 7 p.m. Doors open at 5
p.m. and tickets are sold at
6:15 p.m.
GALWAY
The Adirondack Chapter 602
of the Experimental Aircraft
Association will hold its monthly
general membership meeting at
7 p.m. at the C&R restaurant
on Route 29. The meeting is
open to anyone with an interest
in aviation. for more information, visit www.eaa602.org
AMSTERDAM
The Horace J. Inman Senior
Center, 53 Guy Park Ave., will
hold a crafting, conversation
and ceramics painting class
from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
The cost is $20. For more
information contact Karen at
210-6715.
AMSTERDAM
The Horace J. Inman Senior
Center, 53 Guy Park Ave., will
host bingo from 1:45 to 3:45
p.m.
GALWAY
The Galway Lioness Club of
Lions District 20-Y2 will meet at
the Galway Lions Club
Building, East Street at 7 p.m.
Guest speaker Alexis Gotham,
a member of the Girl Scouts of
America, will share information
about Girl Scouts and her travels to other countries. The
Lioness Monthly Board meeting will follow.
GLOVERSVILLE
A breastfeeding support
group will meet at The
Birthing Center at Littauer, 99
E. State St., from 12:30 to 2
p.m. For more information,
contact the Birthing Center.
JOHNSTOWN
Montgomery County
Executive Matthew Ossenfort
will deliver his State of
Montgomery County Address at
Fulton-Montgomery Community
College, 2805 Route 67, from 5
to 7 p.m. Admission is free but
RSVP is required. Contact
Terry at the chamber at 7250641 or email [email protected].
Thursday
AMSTERDAM
The Horace J. Inman Senior
Center, 53 Guy Park Ave., will
have lunch available for purchase from 11 a.m. to 12:30
p.m.
AMSTERDAM
The Amsterdam Free
Library, 28 Church St., will
show “Gunfight at the OK
Corral,” as part of the second
annual Kirk Douglas Film
Festival, at 6 p.m.
AMSTERDAM
The support group sponsored
by the National Alliance on
Mental Illness of Montgomery,
Fulton and Hamilton Counties
will meet from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at
the Riverfront Center, Suite
2390. For more information,
contact Rebecca Cardinale at
843-3261.
JOHNSTOWN
The 50 Plus Club, located in
the Shirley J. Luck Senior
Center, 109 E. Main St., will
hold its monthly officers meeting at 11:30 a.m. All club officers should plan to attend. A
business meeting will follow
at 1:15 p.m. For more information call 762-4643.
NORTHVILLE
An alzheimer’s caregiver support group will meet at the
Northville Public Library, 341 S.
3rd St., from 9 to 10 a.m. For
more information, contact
Meagan DeMento at 867-4999.
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LOCAL
Friday, February 24, 2017 / 3
FARM SIDE
A damming situation Kessler, Mathewson engaged
Until a couple of weeks ago you had probably
never heard of the Oroville Dam in California. I certainly hadn’t and I end up reading a lot of California
news each week, since a great deal of our nation’s
agriculture takes place there. Around here we are
downright familiar with Gilboa Dam, having lived
through several floods that threatened its integrity,
but there was no reason for the aging California
structure to show up on our radar until recently.
Now, thanks to the wettest winter in closeup memory, plus what appears to be a serious case of
By
unwise neglect, you would have to have been napping with the groundhogs to have missed all the stoMARIANNE
ries about the dam. When water in the main spillFRIERS
way was constrained due to imminent failure, the
dirt-backed emergency spillway was not up to the
job of taking the water. It had in fact never been used before and it
seems that authorities grossly overestimated the water it could handle.
Even the Los Angeles Times, a notoriously progressive sort of paper,
published an editorial last week damning the state’s government for
lack of foresight in letting the structure reach the point of near failure.
They delivered a sound spanking indeed. “State lawmakers spend
their time obsessing over minutia: a prohibition against free grocery
bags and rules against disturbing bobcats. When they do turn their
attention to development, they tend to pick projects that serve urban
rather than rural populations — for example, that boondoggle of a bullet train whose costs keep climbing even as the project falls years
behind schedule.”
At 770 feet tall, the dam is the tallest in America, topping the Hoover
Dam by 44 feet. At the time of its completion in 1968, Ronald Reagan
was governor of California and attended the dam’s dedication. Lake
Oroville, impounded behind the shaky structure, is one of California’s
largest manmade lakes. When things are working right the dam
impounds 3.5 million acre feet of water, which is used for everything
from flushing the loo to flood control.
The spillways, which are the part of the dam that is thought to be
failing now, experienced damage in 2013, which was said to have
been repaired. In 2015 a distant visual inspection was considered sufficient and the spillways were not closely examined.
Besides the threat to hundreds of thousands of people living downstream from potential dam failure, agriculture could be heavily
impacted should the spillway, or dam itself release what is said to be
a potential 30-foot wall of water. According to Capital Press, “A large
portion of the Eastern Sacramento Valley’s $1.5 billion agriculture
industry is directly in the path of potential flood waters from Lake
Oroville if the dam or its spillway were to fail.”
Almonds, peaches, prunes, and walnuts are grown in the shadow of
the great dam. California grows roughly 80 percent of the world’s
almonds, so this is a pretty big deal. Some tree fields that were planted without the protection of levees have already flooded, although
damage is not expected to be serious.
Even the itinerant bees, which pollinate the fruit blossoms each year,
have been and may continue to be impacted by the potential floods.
The pollination of the almond trees by traveling bees is said to be the
largest managed pollination event in the world. Pollination in the
USA, by the way, is a $656 million business each year. Beekeepers are
said to make more money from pollination than from the actual honey
produced by the bees.
Because thousands of beehives are currently in place to do their
work, beekeepers have placed many on stands to keep them above
possible rising waters. Beehive Journal has simple plans for such
stands, which can consist of as little as a few boards laid between cinder blocks. I don’t suppose if that 30-foot wall of water were to materialize that they would do much good however.
Across the rest of the state dairy farmers are making plans to truck
cattle to higher ground if flooding continues along various rivers.
In case flooding persists or becomes worse Western United
Dairymen, a voluntary membership organization representing more
than 60 percent of the milk produced in California, has created a
checklist for dairies that may have to evacuate their cows and people.
Their first suggestion is perhaps the most obvious, while at the
same time the most difficult. Identify a relocation site. Imagine
having thousands of cows and needing to find a facility where they
can be housed, fed, and milked, in a region already under the pressure of extremely harsh weather? It is suggested that herds may
need to be split and a list of potential hosts is being established.
Transportation is the next sticky wicket. Trucks enough to haul those
same herds may well be problematic. Milk inspectors must be notified
and probably involved in the relocation process. Emergency inspections may be needed for unpermitted locations.
Seemingly obvious preparations, such as turning off utilities and
moving machinery to high ground may be missed in the rush to take
care of cattle. Records are important too, and it is suggested that they
be physically removed to a safer location or stored online.
A whole other list of plans has been released for dairies that may
host evacuated cattle, ranging from written agreements on the division
of costs and incomes, to hospital and milking procedures.
Then the need to return cows to their original homes after the danger is past brings its own set of challenges, ranging from inspecting
and repairing damaged facilities and equipment to documenting damage and keeping good records of expenditures for insurance purposes.
I am sure California’s dairymen and women are hoping that the
weather moderates and they don’t have to move cows.
At this point the water behind the dam has been lowered and construction crews are working around the clock to repair the spillways.
With more rain forecast for the already inundated area, we can only
hope for their success.
Fultonville dairy farmer Marianne Friers is a regular columnist. She
blogs at http://northview-diary.blogspot.com.
Photo submitted
Christopher Corey Mathewson and Karaline Elizabeth Kessler.
GLOVERSVILLE — Karalin
Elizabeth
Kessler
and
Christopher Corey Mathewson,
of Gloversville, are proud to
announce their engagement.
The future bride is the daughter of John and Linda Kessler,
of Mayfield, and the future
bridegroom is the son of Mark
and Karen Mathewson, of
Amsterdam.
The future bride is currently
employed at Fulmont WIC as a
nutritionist.
The future bridegroom is currently employed at the
Amsterdam Municipal Golf
Course as an assistant golf professional.
A wedding is planned for
Aug. 12 in Saratoga Springs.
New technology, products highlight
of Hill & Markes Trade Show
Hill & Markes Inc., a 111-year-old company located in Amsterdam, is pleased to announce their
annual trade show to be held on Friday, March 3 at
Turning Stone Resort, Verona, from 8:30 a.m. to
3:30 p.m. New products will be available to attendees in Food Service, Janitorial, School Food
Programs, and Office supplies.
Most importantly, will be the opportunity for customers to see new technology in products, as well as
our company web site and e commerce site. Ease of
ordering and obtaining information on products will
be demonstrated at seminars and with one on one
training. The company now offers one of the most
comprehensive web sites in the industry.
“As a family owned business, we are proud of the
positive reputation our Trade Show has across the
state. We know people save the date and do not
want to miss the opportunity of attending our trade
show,” stated Andrea Packer, vice president of
Marketing. “We have found due to the volume of
attendees, registration is extremely important in our
preparation. Registration is accessible at
www.HillandMarkes.com. “
• Seminar Speakers this year include:
• 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. — “Positive Impact of a
Workforce Hand Hygiene Program” — Thom
Wojtkun, GOJO
• 10:00 to 10:45 a.m. — “eCommerce Training —
Beginners” — Mike Powers, Hill & Markes, Inc.
• 11:00 to 11:45 a.m. — “eCommerce Training —
Advanced” — Mike Powers, Hill & Markes, Inc.
• 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. — “Turbo Charge” —
Eric Stewart, Taylor Freezer of Albany
Hill & Markes has partnered with Taylor Freezer
of Albany for 30 years in presenting a full package
for the ice cream customer. “We have the most com-
plete package of offerings in the state for our customers,” stated Jason Packer, VP of Operations, 3rd
generation family member.
A partnership with Tennant Floor Equipment for
20 years has enabled Hill & Markes to offer the
very latest in environmentally friendly cleaning
technology.
Over 90 vendors will be participating including:
3M, Clorox, Solo Cup, Ecolab, Food handler,
Georgia Pacific, Purell, Hershey, International
Paper, Joy Cone, Kimberly Clark, Office Supplies,
Rubbermaid, Simonize, Sylvania, Taylor Freezer,
and Tennant.
Servicing all of New York State and parts of
Vermont, the company is known for providing
excellent service, education and product mix for
universities, hospitals, schools, facility maintenance, restaurants and other food related business,
nursing homes, and other institutions.
For comprehensive information on the show and
to preregister go to www.hillandmarkes.com and
see the link for the Trade Show.
The focus of this event is to demonstrate products
distributed by Hill & Markes in many segments:
• Demonstrate to ice cream businesses how to get
their season started with the newest and the best
products.
• Showcase janitorial products for every type of
customer, with an emphasis on environmentally
friendly products.
• Healthy Living through healthy eating with our
sustainable food division focusing on School
Programs.
• Office supplies rounds out a “One Stop
Shopping “experience with the company.
Lions Club assists Association
of the Blind with free
KidSight Vision Screening
NORTHVILLE — Recently, the Northville/Sacandaga Lions Club,
assisted Kathryn Miklowitz, BS, LPN KidSight Program coordinator
from the Northeastern Association of the Blind (NABA), by providing a
free KidSight Vision Screening. The screening was conducted at the
Northville Central School and approximately 40 students were tested.
KidSight is a free vision screening service offered by the Northeastern
Association of the Blind at Albany (NABA) to detect signs of early
vision problems. Spot, the photographic visions screening device, can
immediately detect a variety of different vision problems including nearand far-sightedness, unequal refractive power, eye structure problems,
pupil size deviations and eye misalignment. It is a quick, easy and noninvasive process, requiring no dilation eye drops.
The Northville Lions Club would like to thank all those at the school
who assisted with the vision screening.
In December, the Northville/Sacandaga Lions Club, packed approximately 300 Christmas fruit and candy treats to the students at the
Northville Central School and Edinburg Common School. The club
also adopted two families at Christmas providing them with toys,
clothing and food for the holidays.
Lions Clubs International is celebrating 100 years of humanitarian service around the world. Members of the Northville Lions Club are proud to
be affiliated with Lions Clubs International and continue to provide
humanitarian service in the surrounding communities and schools. The
club is committed to the motto, “We Serve," and is proud of the past and
look to greater sight, hearing, and humanitarian services in the future.
New members are always welcome. Meetings are held at the Sport
Island Pub every second and fourth Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m.
Fort Plain’s Rouse
promoted to private
in Army National
Guard
LATHAM — Maj. Gen.
Anthony P. German, the adjutant general for the state,
announces the recent promotion of members of the New
York Army National Guard in
recognition of their capability
for additional responsibility
and leadership.
Gabrielle Rouse, from Fort
Plain, and serving with the
466th Area Support Medical
Company, received a promotion in the Army National
Guard to the rank of private.
Army National Guard promotions are based on overall
performance, attitude, leadership ability, and development
potential.
These promotions additionally recognize the best qualified soldiers and attract and
retain the highest caliber citizen soldiers for a career in
the New York Army National
Guard.
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Aldi
Lottery numbers
ALBANY (AP) — Here are
the winning numbers selected Thursday in the New York
State Lottery:
MIDDAY DAILY: 8-6-7
LUCKY SUM: 21
MIDDAY WINFOUR: 4-2-0-6
LUCKY SUM: 12
EVENING DAILY: 7-8-7
LUCKY SUM: 22
EVENING WINFOUR: 4-7-5-4
LUCKY SUM: 20
PICK 10: 5-7-10-15-20-2231-32-33-42-45-46-49-5052-54-56-57-69-71
TAKE 5: 5-8-11-20-27
CASH4LIFE: 3-24-38-43-52
CASH BALL: 3
The Recorder, Amsterdam, N.Y.
OBITUARIES
from page 1
modifications to the parking layout, minor grading and storm
sewer. It will add four additional
parking spaces.
The existing store has 15,137
square feet of space.
Amanda Bearcroft, a senior
planner and GIS specialist with
Montgomery County, answered
questions brought up by board
members. She said by looking at
the plans, it’s going to be similar
to the Johnstown Aldi’s layout.
Board member David Wiener
said the project looks pretty simple.
“It’s in the business area. The
side of the building that’s getting
pushed towards the street has
more than adequate setback,” he
said.
Board
member
Robert
DiCaprio asked about storm
water management and additional water flow from the roof.
Bearcroft referenced the paperwork, which states the grading
structures will be inspected and
repaired as needed.
Wiener said he didn’t think it
would be a problem.
Bearcroft said now that the
county has approved the referral,
the town will be responsible for
completing
the
State
Environmental Quality Review
Act (SEQR) process and voting
on the project.
She said Aldi most likely has a
construction timeline, and it’s
possible they will begin as soon
as they receive all needed
approvals.
“It’s good for the county,”
Bearcroft said. “It shows they
have the consumer impact and
need to expand.”
BOA
LOCAL
Rosalie A. Riccio
Audrey J. Nadler-Kirchofer
February 22, 2017
February 20, 2017
Rosalie A. Riccio, cherished by family and
admired by friends, passed away peacefully on
Feb. 22, 2017 at Ellis Hospital in Schenectady,
N.Y. after a brief illness. She was 88.
Rosalie was born on Sept. 2, 1928, to Judge Felix
and Rose Pipito Aulisi in Amsterdam, N.Y. She
was raised and educated in Amsterdam before
graduating in 1949 from Mount Holyoke College
in South Hadley, Mass. Rosalie treasured the lifelong friendships that she made there, and loyally
RICCIO
served the college as Class of 1949 president and
as co-chair of the 50th reunion.
After beginning her post-graduate years in advertising in New York
City with Conde Nast “House & Garden” Magazine and in
Schenectady, N.Y. with General Electric, Rosalie spent virtually all of
her years leading the life that she always wanted in her hometown.
She was a loving and dedicated wife and a wonderful and giving
mother, grandmother, daughter, sister and friend.
While raising her children, Rosalie earned a master’s degree in education at SUNY Albany and began working in the Greater Amsterdam
School District, initially as a substitute teacher and later as a full-time
guidance counselor. She contributed heavily to her community and was
generous of her time, serving as Junior Century Club president, starting the first Amsterdam Beautification Committee and volunteering as
an advisory board member of St. Mary’s Hospital; she also was
appointed in 1996 by the then New York State Governor to the Board
of Trustees of Fulton Montgomery Community College, where she
served as vice chair.
Rosalie is survived by her husband of 62 years, Judge Michael J.
Riccio; their three daughters, Maria and her husband Whitney Fast,
Rosemary and her husband Carl Gardner, and Nancy and her husband
Scott Hughes; and their two sons, Michael, Jr. and his wife Laura, and
Felix and his wife Moira. Rosalie was especially proud of her 15
grandchildren, Annie and Mike Fast, Grace, Claire and Jack Gardner,
Ryan, Christopher, Abby and Scott Hughes, Emily and Ben Riccio,
and Tommy, Andrew, Kate and Nicholas Riccio. Other survivors
include Rosalie’s sister, Nancy and her husband Judge Gene L.
Catena; her brother, Joseph G. Aulisi and his wife Marsha; and many
nephews and nieces.
Some of Rosalie’s most cherished memories were of summers spent
cooking for her extended family at the camp on Sacandaga Lake and
winter months with friends on Anna Maria Island, Fla. For the past
three years, Rosalie and Mike have resided at Coburg Village in
Rexford, N.Y., where Rosalie made numerous friends and remained
active on various committees.
Calling hours are Sunday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Riley Mortuary,
Inc., 110 Division St., Amsterdam. A Mass of Christian Burial will be
held Monday at 1 p.m.at St. Luke’s Catholic Church, 1241 State St.,
Schenectady, N.Y. Interment at St. Mary’s Cemetery, Fort Johnson,
N.Y. will be private.
In lieu of flowers, contributions in Rosalie’s memory can be made in
support of her nephew, Dr. Tom Catena, at Mother of Mercy Hospital
in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan through the African Mission
Healthcare Foundation at www.amhf.us, or alternatively, mailed to the
African Healthcare Foundation, PO Box 2236, Hicksville, NY 11802.
In each instance, please reference that contributions are being made to
support Dr. Catena at Mother of Mercy Hospital in the Nuba
Mountains.
To send online condolences to the family, go to www.rileymortuaryinc.com.
Audrey J. Nadler-Kirchofer, 62, of Perth, N.Y.,
has gone to her eternal rest on Monday, Feb. 20,
2017.
Born on Nov. 5, 1954 in Hagaman N.Y., she was
the daughter of the late Katherine Bakuzonis and
Harold Chriss. Audrey graduated from Amsterdam
High School. She spent 10 years employed by
ARC first in Amsterdam then in Schenectady. For
the last seven years, she worked for Community
Hospice in Amsterdam. She was very instrumental
NADLERin her involvement in organizing and planning
KIRCHOFER yearly events with Camp Erin in Speculator. It is a
program designed to help children cope with grief and bereavement
when faced with the loss of a loved one.
Audrey was very talented and had a passion for crafting and
painting. She traveled the country with her close friends for various arts and crafts projects. Audrey also spent time teaching one
stroke painting for Michael’s and JoAnn craft stores out of
Amsterdam and Latham. Audrey will be fondly remembered for
her warm smile and her kind and compassionate personality. She
truly was a remarkable woman who was very dependable and welcoming. She was a very special woman who would go above and
beyond not just for the children she helped but for all those
around her.
Audrey is survived by her beloved husband Roger Kirchofer; her
sons, Todd and Timothy Kirchofer; her sisters, Barbara Ann Jock and
Lynn (Lou) Hemieleski; her brother Roger Chriss; her nephew Nathan
Kirchofer; her niece Jackie (Tony) Priamo; and her nephew Stylor
Chriss. She is predeceased by her parents Katherine and Harold; and
her brother Ronnie.
A funeral service for Audrey will be held on Monday, Feb. 27, 2017,
at 12:30 p.m. at Betz, Rossi, & Bellinger Family Funeral Home, 171
Guy Park Ave., Amsterdam, NY with Rev. O. Robert DeMartinis presiding. Burial will immediately follow at Hagaman Mills Cemetery,
Hagaman, N.Y.. Family and friends are invited to attend calling hours
on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the funeral home. Those
wishing to express their condolences to the family may do so by signing our online Memorial at www.brbsfuneral.com
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more attractive to businesses in those areas,”
Zakrevsky said.
Saratoga Associates completed the pre-nomination report for the northern and eastern neighborhood brownfields in June 2015, which is the initial
step in the process to receive a BOA designation.
The proposed Northern Neighborhoods BOA is
described as being roughly bounded by Route 30
and Locust Avenue to the west, Sloan Avenue and
Forest Avenue to the east, Route 67 to the south and
Lyon Street to the north. The Northern
Neighborhoods spans about 309 acres and includes
approximately 898 individual parcels.
There were a total of 174 properties originally identified as vacant, abandoned, underutilized, or a brownfield, according to the pre-nomination report. These
properties were then reduced to 41 priority sites for
further evaluation based on property records, historic
maps and preliminary site investigations.
The report said the Northern Neighborhoods BOA
includes “some of Amsterdam’s more significant
existing and former industrial and manufacturing
properties,” such as the former Mohasco Mill complex, former Sanford Carpet Mills, former Sunoco and
Amsterdam Paper Mill along lower Forest Avenue,
former Kelloggs and Miller Linseed Oil factory, and
the vacant plaza at Five Corners. The district covers a
significant portion of the Chuctanunda Creek.
Residential and mixed-use neighborhoods, where
many factory employees once lived, are also included in the Northern Neighborhoods BOA, which the
report describes as needing economic investment.
“These neighborhoods are some of the most economically depressed areas in the city with high rates of
vacancy, property abandonment and blighted conditions,” the pre-nomination report said. “Identifying
strategies to enhance the existing and former industrial
properties is only part of the solution. Integrating reinvestment and revitalization strategies for the neighborhoods is critical to a long-term approach for the city.”
The proposed East End BOA spans about 129
acres and includes approximately 421 individual
parcels, with 58 of those properties identified as priority sites requiring further evaluation.
The pre-nomination report said unlike the proposed Northern Neighborhoods BOA, “where a significant number of vacant, underutilized and remnants of former industrial buildings spread out
along the Chuctanunda Creek, the East End’s existing industrial buildings are primarily concentrated
at the southeast corner of the proposed BOA.”
The Lower Mills Complex on DeGraff Street was
identified in the report as the primary underutilized
facility in the East End. The six-story complex, formerly the Fownes Brothers & Co. Glove Mill, was
described as “a visually dominant industrial facility
in the East End with several connected six story
buildings and one two story building.”
There were also several vacant properties in the
East End located along or near Front Street that formerly housed as an industrial facility.
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Norbert B. 'Knobby' Fryc
February 23, 2017
Mr. Norbert B. “Knobby” Fryc passed away on Feb. 23, 2017, at the
age of 92.
He was born in Amsterdam, N.Y., a son of Joseph and Catherine
Fryc. He was a lifelong area resident who was a graduate of the
Wilbur H. Lynch High School, Class of 1942.
Mr. Fryc was a World War II veteran serving in the Ardennes,
Central Europe, Northern France and Rhineland. He worked for the
General Electric Company retiring in 1987.
He was a former member of St. John’s Church. He loved playing
baseball and basketball. He coached wee men baseball and CYO basketball.
He married Lottie Sinko on Nov. 19, 1949.
Survivors include his wife, Lottie Fryc; one son, Mark Fryc, wife
Kate, Amsterdam; three daughters, Marcia Russo, husband James,
Hagaman, Deborah Fryc, husband Gwyn Thomas, West Sand Lake,
N.Y. and Dr. Carol Soucie, husband Mark, Concord, N.C.; five grandchildren Michael Russo, wife Jean, Natalie Reinardy, husband Kent,
Mallory Fryc, Jim Soucie and Lauren Soucie; nieces, nephews and
cousins.
He was predeceased by eight siblings, brothers, Jerome, Ralph and
Victor Fryc and sisters, Ceil Ross, Balbina Duma, Florence Fryc, Jane
Wickware and Genevieve Smiarowski.
The funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Feb. 27,
2017, at the Jendrzejczak Funeral Home, 200 Church St.,
Amsterdam, NY with Rev. O. Robert De Martinis officiating.
Private interment will be at the convenience of the family. The
family will receive relatives and friends from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at the
funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be
made to a charity of choice or to the American Heart Association
C/O the funeral home.
Please submit on-line condolences at www.jendrzejczakfuneral.com.
Jendrzejczak
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200 Church Street, Amsterdam, New York 12010
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5-year-old boy dies in house fire
MASSENA (AP) — Authorities in northern New York are
investigating a house fire that left a 5-year-old boy dead.
The unidentified boy was found in an upstairs bedroom of
a house in Massena that caught fire on Wednesday night.
Emergency responders were able to rescue downstairs
occupants.
The child was declared dead a local hospital later that
night.
The Recorder, Amsterdam, N.Y.
LOCAL
Mohawk town board discusses
local law to regulate solar projects
By MORGAN FRISCH
Recorder News Staff
FONDA — The Mohawk Town Board will hold a
public hearing on March 9 regarding proposed local
law adopting solar and site plan regulations.
Town Supervisor Edward Bishop said it’s setting
up regulations similar to what the town of Florida
set up in December 2015, when it entered solar stipulations into its zoning ordinance. The town of
Amsterdam also based their own solar law, which
was adopted in October, off of Florida’s.
“Just to be sure people comply with our zoning
and that kind of thing,” Bishop said.
According to proposed local law number two, the
purpose of the regulations is to balance the potential
impact on neighbors where solar collectors may be
installed near their property. This is still while preserving the rights of property owners to install solar
collection systems without excess regulation. The
regulations are not intended to override the New
York State Agriculture and Markets Law, according
to the proposed law.
The document contains information regarding
applicability, solar energy equipment and systems,
accessory structure, permitting and safety.
Once the law is approved, the requirements will
apply to all solar collector system installations modified or installed.
For example, rooftop and flush-mounted solar collectors are permitted, but building permits shall be
required for installation. They would be permitted
on all principal structures and all accessory structures that meet setbacks as required in each zoning
district, according to the document. Information
regarding feet and and height is also provided.
The purpose of the proposed site plan review law
is to promote the health, safety, and general welfare
of the town, according to the document.
“A clean, wholesome, attractive environment is
declared to be of importance to the health and safety of the inhabitants of the town and, in addition,
such an environment is deemed essential to the
maintenance and continued development of the
economy of the town and the general welfare of its
inhabitants,” the proposed law states.
It also discusses what requires site plan approval,
the application process and submission requirements.
The public hearing on March 9 will take place at 7
p.m. in the Mohawk Office Building. The regular
monthly meeting will follow.
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Hagaman
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said Thursday. “It got passed Tuesday night unanimously by the board.”
Village officials said there was difficulty getting the Montgomery
County Sheriff’s Department to enforce the previous law, which was
“unenforceable”.
One of the biggest changes in the new law is proposed jail time.
According to the amended law, “Any person violating any provision
of this chapter may, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not
more than $250, imprisonment for not more than 15 days, or both such
fine and imprisonment.”
The new law will give a judge power to put a repeat offender in jail,
if they refuse to pay fines.
Trustees mentioned during the public hearing that the sheriff’s department
will only enforce jail time if the village’s attorney is willing to prosecute.
According to the document, the board of trustees finds that unnecessary
noise degrades the environment of the village. It also mentioned that
unnecessary noise interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life, property and recreation with the conduct and operation of business.
Palmatier said during the public hearing that it’s not really a noise
law, but more of a consideration law.
Some examples of noise considered in violation according to the law
are horns for an unreasonable amount of time, loud engine exhausts
and construction noise not within the hours of 7 a.m. and 9 p.m.
The document goes into detail and has exceptions for different situations. It includes more information regarding dog barking, yelling,
music and loud machinery, but the standards that determine if the
level is in violation include factors like proximity and time of day.
When asked if the amended law will be beneficial for the village,
Mayor Robert Krom said, “We can only hope.”
“Trying to improve the quality of life in the village is always a positive,” Palmatier said.
POLICE REPORTS
Amsterdam Police
Department
• Christopher A. Grant, 45, of 115
Forest St., Gloversville, was charged
Feb. 2 with aggravated driving while
intoxicated for having a blood-alcohol
content of 0.18 percent or greater, driving while intoxicated, inadequate headlights and improper lane usage. Police
said Grant was allegedly observed
weaving in and out of his lane while
driving on West Main Street. He was
issued a ticket to appear in city court at
a later date.
• Tabitha Hepner, 31, and William B.
Skinner, 46, both of 1351 Route 5S,
were each charged Feb. 2 with endangering the welfare of a child. Police said
a 9-year-old child under their care was
found walking on the Route 30 bridge
unattended. The child allegedly told
police they were going to a friend’s
house. Hepner and Skinner were both
issued a ticket to appear in city court at
a later date.
• William F. Buczkowski, 26, of 248
Rebisz Road, Broadalbin, was charged
Feb. 2 with second-degree aggravated
unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle
and being an unlicensed driver. Police
stopped Buczkowski on Market Street
after allegedly observing him driving,
with police aware his license was suspended and there were warrants for his
arrest. Buczkowski was also charged on
a warrant for first-degree identity theft, a
felony, and second-degree criminal
impersonation. Police said the warrant
follows a complaint where Buczkowski
allegedly purchased items several times
at a local business using a former
employer’s business account at the
store. His purchases reportedly totaled
more than $5,000. Buczkowski was
held pending arraignment.
• Sydney M. Morin, 22, of 46 Pearl St.,
Gloversville, was charged Feb. 2 with
criminal possession of a hypodermic
instrument. Morin was issued a ticket to
appear in city court at a later date.
• Michelle M. Mustico, 31, of 7 Knox
Ave., Johnstown, was charged Feb. 2
with third-degree aggravated unlicensed
operation of a motor vehicle. Police
stopped Mustico on East Main Street
after she was allegedly observed driving
erratically. She was released after posting bail and is scheduled to appear in
city court at a later date.
• Elizabeth Ryan, 37, of 1668 Route 8,
Piseco, was charged Feb. 3 with second-degree harassment after she
allegedly struck someone on Jan. 23
while on Guy Park Avenue. A warrant
was issued for her arrest after the
alleged incident. She was held pending
arraignment.
• Robert J. Parillo, 76, of 13 Grieme
Ave., was charged Feb. 4 with driving
while intoxicated, having a blood-alcohol
content of .08 percent or more, and failure to keep right. Police stopped Parillo
on Route 30 for allegedly failing to keep
right. Police found him to allegedly be
intoxicated. He was issued tickets to
appear in city court at a later date.
• Michael E. Gleason, 46, of 21 Arnold
Ave., was charged Feb. 6, on a warrant
issued by the Montgomery County
Sheriff’s Office for failure to appear in
court. Gleason was turned over to the
sheriff’s office.
• Carl H. Goodwin, 33, of 427 Second
Ave., Albany, was charged Feb. 6 on two
warrants for failure to appear in city court
and was held pending arraignment.
• Karina I. Vazquez-Maldonado, 22, of 53
Stewart St., was charged Feb. 6 with operating a motor vehicle with a suspended
registration, operating an unregistered
motor vehicle, operating a motor vehicle
without insurance and improper license
plates. Police stopped Vazquez-Maldonado
on East Main Street after a license plate
check. She was released on tickets to
appear in city court at a later date.
• Emmanuel A. Gyamfi, 25, of 364
Locust Ave., was charged Feb. 6 with
unlawful possession of marijuana after
he was allegedly found to be in possession of a small amount of marijuana following a traffic stop on East Main
Street. Gyamfi was released on a ticket
to appear in city court at a later date.
• Raul J. Cruz, 35, of 12 Wilson Ave.,
was charged Feb. 7 with seventh-degree
criminal possession of a controlled substance, third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle,
being an unlicensed driver and having a
broken windshield. Police stopped Cruz
on East Main Street for the alleged broken windshield. Police found him to
allegedly be in possession of a quantity
of cocaine. He was released on a ticket
to appear in city court at a later date.
• Orlando Vasquez, 50, of Salinas, Puerto
Rico, was charged Feb. 7 was charged
with operating a motor vehicle with a suspended registration. Police stopped
Vasquez after a license plate check on
East Main Street. He was issued a ticket to
appear in city court at a later date.
• Daniel J. Solis, 28, of 31 High St.,
was charged Feb. 7 on a warrant for
second-degree criminal contempt and
second-degree harassment. Police
responded to a disturbance in
December and found Solis had allegedly harassed and threatened someone.
He was held pending arraignment.
• Ernesto M. Esteva, 38, of 20 Kline
St., was charged Feb. 7 on a warrant
for failure to appear in city court and
was held pending arraignment.
• Robert J. Morley, 24, of 45 Lincoln
Ave., was charged Feb. 8 on a warrant
for second-degree harassment. Police
responded to a disturbance on Jan. 21
and determined Morley had allegedly
punched someone. He was held pending arraignment.
• Lucas J. Miller, 27, of 104 Sunny Bay
Road, Broadalbin, was charged Feb. 8
with operating a motor vehicle with a suspended registration and having an inadequate muffler. Miller was released on tickets to appear in city court at a later date.
• Angela M. St. Andrews, 44, of 533
Paige St., Schenectady, was charged Feb.
8 on a warrant for failure to appear in city
court and was held pending arraignment.
• Cassandra A. Warrick, 20, of 112
Division St., Northville, was charged
Feb. 9 with third-degree aggravated
unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.
Warrick was released on a ticket to
appear in city court at a later date.
• Richard Perez-Santiago, 24, of 33
Milton Ave., was charged Feb. 9 on a
warrant for second-degree harassment.
Police responded to a reported fight on
Union Street in December and PerezSantiago was found to have allegedly
punched a person. He was also found
to have a warrant for failure to appear
in city court. Perez-Santiago was also
charged with seventh-degree criminal
possession of a controlled substance,
because police found him to allegedly
be in possession of several Xanax pills.
He was held pending arraignment.
• John W. Blatchford, 65, of 45 Grant
Ave., was charged Feb. 10 with driving
while intoxicated, having a blood-alcohol
of .08 or greater, passing a red traffic light
and speeding. Police stopped Blatchford
after he was allegedly observed speeding
on Church Street and passing a red light.
He was issued tickets to appear in city
court at a later date.
• David A. Gosson, 34, of 6 Hempton
St., Amsterdam, was charged Feb. 10
with third-degree aggravated unlicensed
operation of a motor vehicle and operating an uninspected motor vehicle. Police
stopped Gosson on Market Street for
allegedly having an expired inspection
sticker. He was released on tickets to
appear in city court at a later date.
• Andrew A. Aviles, 24, of 100 Charles
Lane, was charged Feb. 10 with thirddegree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle. Aviles was
released on tickets to appear in city
court at a later date.
• Raymond Rollins Jr., 55, of 200
Virginia Lane Apt. G6, was charged Feb.
11 with third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle,
unreasonable speed, improper lane
usage and failure to notify the
Department of Motor Vehicles of an
address change. Rollins allegedly struck
a parked vehicle. He was released after
posting bail and scheduled to appear in
city court at a later date.
• Adonys Telles, 21, allegedly homeless,
was charged Feb. 11 on a warrant for
second-degree burglary, a felony, petit larceny and resisting arrest, and on bench
warrant for failure to appear in city court.
Telles allegedly went onto the porch of a
West Main Street home on Nov. 28 and a
stole a package. The victim reportedly
had reordered items stolen during a prior
incident and setup a security surveillance
system before the second package was
delivered. The second package was
stolen and police identified Telles as the
alleged suspect from the recorded video
footage of the incident. A warrant was
issued for Telles stemming from the Nov.
28 incident and police observed him on
East Main Street on Dec. 6. Police
attempted to arrest Telles on the warrant,
but he allegedly fled the area. Officers
reportedly pursued him on foot behind
several homes on East Main Street.
Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office
deputies and a New York State Police
canine unit responded to assist with the
search on Dec. 6, but authorities did not
locate him. Telles reportedly turned himself in to Amsterdam police on Feb. 11
and was held pending arraignment.
• Christian E. Santana, 22, of 200
Virginia Lane, Apt. B2, was charged Feb.
12, with endangering the welfare of a
child, second-degree harassment and on
a warrant for failure to appear in city court.
Police responded to a reported disturbance and located Santana, who had a
warrant for his arrest. Santana allegedly
struck someone in the presence of children during the reported disturbance. He
was held pending arraignment.
• Mikol N. Mesko, 23, of 502 Noonan
Road, Fort Johnson, was charged Feb.
13, with operating a motor vehicle with a
suspended registration. He was issued a
ticket to appear in city court at a later date.
• Nelson J. Ruiz, 32, of 89 Wall St.,
was charged Feb. 13 on a warrant for
failure to appear in city court and was
held pending arraignment.
• Matthew P. Carter, 36, of 5 Harding
Ave., Delmar, was charged Feb. 14 on a
warrant for failure to appear in city court
and was held pending arraignment.
• Mikayla R. Noack, 19, of 42 Broad
St., was charged Feb. 14 with seconddegree harassment after she allegedly
harassed a person through text messages and an online social media network. Noack was held pending arraignment.
6 / Friday, February 24, 2017
LOCAL
Dom Blair applies glue to his jar while working to make a lantern.
THE
The Recorder, Amsterdam, N.Y.
Ann Peconie, executive director of the Walter Elwood Museum, holds up a gas lamp used on
Stephen Sanford’s carriage while discussing the item.
INVENTION OF ELECTRICITY
The Walter Elwood Museum of the Mohawk Valley held a camp for children Thursday focused on the invention of electricity. Approximately 15 children learned about
what life was like before electricity and saw some of Thomas Edison’s inventions. Participants made their own lantern using a glass jar and affixing tissue paper to it,
with a small LED light resembling a candle placed inside of it.
Photos by John Purcell/Recorder staff
Emma Peconie, of Amsterdam, applies some glue to the side of
her glass jar after placing a piece of tissue paper on it.
Amsterdam resident Nathan Covey, center, and other children listen to music played on an Edison
phonograph.
Ailani Rivera, of Amsterdam, applies glue to a piece of tissue
paper while making her lantern.
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Carter Countermine, of Pattersonville, applies glue to a piece of tissue paper on his jar.
The Recorder, Amsterdam, N.Y.
NATION
Official: President’s
adviser asked FBI to
dispute Russia reports
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
The Associated Press
The mother of 18-year-old Subway employee Javier Flores cries with family and friends at the vigil
prepared for Flores Thursday in Houston. Houston police say Flores was fatally shot as he tried to
protect his mother during an attempted robbery Wednesday night at the sandwich shop store.
Son killed protecting mom in robbery at store where they worked
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston
police say an 18-year-old sandwich shop employee was fatally
shot as he tried to protect his
mother during an attempted
robbery at the store.
Police say the Javier Flores
and his mother were the only
people working in the southeast
Houston Subway restaurant
near closing time Wednesday
night when two assailants
rushed in and pointed a gun at
the woman. Detective David
Crowder says Flores “attempted
to push (her) out of the way as
the suspect was firing, and he
was hit and the mother was not.”
The high school junior was
pronounced dead at a hospital.
The robbers fled empty-handed.
Crowder says authorities hope
Flores’ distraught mother can
help them with information
about the attackers but it’s” very
hard for her to talk about this.”
3 people critically injured in
Oklahoma gas well explosion
$9.5 million in penalties in
platform blast, Gulf violations
WAGONER, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say four
people were injured when a private natural gas
well exploded in eastern Oklahoma.
Wagoner County Emergency Manager Heath
Underwood says the explosion happened
Thursday night as contract workers were repairing a gas line near Wagoner, about 125 miles
northeast of Oklahoma City.
Underwood says three workers were critically
injured and two of them were flown from the
scene by air ambulance.
The Tulsa World reports that the gas line had
been damaged by a truck earlier in the day.
Underwood says emergency responders cut off
the gas line to the well and allowed the fire to
burn out.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An oil industry services company will pay $9.5 million in penalties for
Gulf of Mexico safety violations and for pollution
from a 2012 offshore platform fire that killed
three workers.
The penalties against Houston-based Wood
Group PSN were announced Thursday by the U.S.
Justice Department in Washington and U.S. attorneys in New Orleans and Lafayette, Louisiana,
where civil and criminal cases have been playing
out. The penalties followed plea agreements.
Wood Group will pay $7 million for falsely
reporting that safety inspections were performed
on Gulf of Mexico facilities over several years.
Another $1.8 million in penalties are for discharging oil into the gulf in the November 2012 explosion that killed three workers on a platform owned
by Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations LLC.
Wood Group also will pay $700,000 for community service projects.
The November 2012 explosion killed three
workers on a platform owned by Black Elk
Energy Offshore Operations LLC.
Crews battling wildfires in
Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma
AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — Crews are working to
contain a wildfire that’s burning in a rural area of
the Texas Panhandle while firefighters in
Oklahoma fought back several blazes that popped
up on an unseasonably warm and windy day.
Forecasters had warned that the weather
Thursday was ripe for “extremely critical” wildfire
activity in parts of New Mexico, Oklahoma and
Texas. Multiple fires broke out but there are no
reports of substantial damage or injuries.
In Texas, crews attacked a fire that had burned
nearly 11 square miles in Oldham County in the
Panhandle. Texas A&M Forest Service said early
Friday that the blaze was 50 percent contained
and that the fire’s behavior “has moderated.”
In Oklahoma, multiple fires broke out, and
Oklahoma Army National Guard helicopters
were dispatched to help battle the blazes.
Fire sweeps through New
Jersey hotel, leaves 2 injured
VINELAND, N.J. (AP) — A fire has swept
through a hotel in Vineland, New Jersey, and a
police officer is one of two people injured in the
overnight blaze.
A fire broke out at a Ramada Inn at about 2
a.m. Friday, and it took firefighters more than
two hours to get the flames under control.
Fire Chief Robert Pagnini says guests were
hanging from second floor windows and throwing their belongings out the windows when firefighters arrived.
The police officer suffered smoke inhalation
and a woman was taken to a hospital suffering
from burns and smoke inhalation.
Friday, February 24, 2017 / 7
Dozens of metal poles fall off
truck, smash cars below
NEW YORK (AP) — Dozens of metal poles got
loose from a truck in New York City and rained
onto cars, with one piercing a man’s windshield.
The Daily News says the scaffolding poles
came off a flatbed truck Thursday night and fell
from an elevated part of the Brooklyn-Queens
Expressway onto vehicles below.
Munther Abu-Hamea says the crashing poles
sounded like bombs and one went through his
windshield, narrowly missing him.
He drives for Uber and a limo firm and was on
his way home to Staten Island. The father of six
worried that he’d never see his family again.
Stampede! Drone causes 1,500
elk to charge in Wyoming snow
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Wildlife refuge officials say a man with a drone caused 1,500 elk
to stampede half a mile.
The stampede happened Monday at the
National Elk Refuge in western Wyoming. Elk
and bison often congregate at the refuge to eat
feed put out to help them survive the winter.
This winter has been especially harsh. More
than 3 feet of snow has piled up, conditions that
can be very stressful for all kinds of animals.
Disturbing wildlife is a serious offense punishable by a fine up to $5,000.
WASHINGTON (AP) — White
House chief of staff Reince
Priebus asked a top FBI official
to dispute media reports that
President Donald Trump’s campaign advisers were frequently in
touch with Russian intelligence
agents during the election, a
White House official said.
The official said that Priebus’
request came as the White House
sought to discredit a New York
Times report about the contacts
last week. As of Thursday, the
FBI had not commented publicly
on the report and there was no
indication it planned to.
The New York Times reported
that U.S. agencies had intercepted phone calls last year between
Russian intelligence officials and
members of Trump’s 2016 campaign team.
Priebus’ discussion with FBI
deputy director Andrew McCabe
sparked outrage among some
Democrats, who said that the
chief of staff was violating policies intended to limit communications between the law enforcement agency and the White
House on pending investigations.
“The White House is simply not
permitted to pressure the FBI to
make public statements about a
pending investigation of the president and his advisers,” said
Michigan Rep. John Conyers, the
top Democrat on the House
Judiciary Committee.
A 2009 memo from thenAttorney General Eric Holder
said the Justice Department is to
advise the White House on pending criminal or civil investigations “only when it is important
for the performance of the president’s duties and appropriate
from a law enforcement perspective.” When communication has
to occur, the memo said, it should
involve only the highest-level
officials from the White House
and the Justice Department.
The White House official would
not comment when asked if the
administration was concerned
about the appropriateness of
Priebus’ communications with
McCabe. The official was not
authorized to disclose the matter
publicly and insisted on anonymity.
Trump himself, however, complained early today that the “FBI
is totally unable to stop the
national security ‘leakers’ that
have permeated our government
for a long time.”
“They can’t even find the leakers within the FBI itself.
Classified information is being
given to media that could have a
devastating effect on U.S. FIND
NOW,” Trump tweeted.
The FBI would not say whether
it had contacted the White House
about the veracity of the Times
report. The official told the AP
that Priebus’ request came after
the FBI told the White House it
believed a New York Times
report last week describing those
contacts was not accurate.
CNN first reported that Priebus
had asked the FBI to weigh in on
the matter.
Trump has been shadowed by
questions about potential ties to
Russia since winning the election.
U.S. intelligence agencies have
also concluded that Russia meddled in the campaign to help Trump
defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Last week, Trump fired national
security adviser Michael Flynn
because he misled Vice President
Trump tweet
blames FBI for
failing to stop
media leaks
WASHINGTON (AP) —
President Donald Trump is
blaming the FBI for failing to
stop leaks to the media, saying the information being
reported is classified and
could have a “devastating
effect” on the country.
Trump made the remarks
in a tweet early this morning.
His tweet follows reports that
White House chief of staff
Reince Priebus had asked a
top FBI official to dispute
media reports that Trump’s
campaign advisers were frequently in touch with
Russian intelligence agents
during the election.
Trump writes, “The FBI is
totally unable to stop the
national security ‘leakers’
that have permeated our
government for a long time.
They can’t even find the
leakers within the FBI itself.”
He adds, “classified information is being given to
media that could have a devastating effect on U.S. FIND
NOW.”
Mike Pence and other White
House officials about his contacts
with the Russian ambassador to the
U.S. Flynn, who was interviewed
by the FBI about his contacts, is
said to have talked with the ambassador multiple times during the
transition, including a discussion
about U.S. sanctions policy.
Still, Trump and his advisers
have denied having had contacts
with Russian officials during the
election. Last week, Trump said
“nobody that I know of” spoke
with Russian intelligence agents
during the campaign.
Priebus alluded to his contacts
with the FBI over the weekend,
telling Fox News that “the top
levels of the intelligence community” have assured him that the
allegations of campaign contacts
with Russia were “not only grossly overstated, but also wrong.”
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said
Priebus’ comments opened the
door for FBI Director James
Comey to discuss the bureau’s
investigation publicly.
“If the White House chief of
staff can make public claims
about the supposed conclusions
of an FBI investigation, then
Director Comey can come clean
with the American people,”
Wyden said.
Justin Shur, a former Justice
Department public corruption
prosecutor, said it was imperative
that Justice Department investigations not be swayed by political considerations.
“As a general matter, investigations and prosecutions should be
about gathering the facts and the
evidence and applying the law,”
Shur said.
During the campaign, Trump
and other Republicans vigorously criticized a meeting between
then-Attorney General Loretta
Lynch and former President Bill
Clinton, husband of Trump’s
general election opponent.
8 / Friday, February 24, 2017
OPINION
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EDITORIAL
COMMENTARY
McMaster a wise
pick for national
security adviser
That’s unpresidented
President Donald Trump took an important
step Monday toward restoring a semblance of
order and competence to his national security
team, selecting a highly regarded, deeply
learned strategic thinker and Army general to
serve as national security adviser.
Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, 54, is a seasoned
battlefield commander. As a captain during the
Persian Gulf War, he commanded 140 soldiers
in nine tanks and 12 Bradley fighting vehicles
in a nighttime battle against a much larger Iraqi
force, with 30 tanks, 20 personnel carriers and
30 other trucks. By morning, every enemy
vehicle had been destroyed and McMaster’s
armored troop had not suffered a single loss.
More recently, it was his early demonstration
of counter-insurgency techniques in the Iraq
War that Gen. David Petraeus later adopted as
a central plank of what would be known as “the
surge.”
McMaster holds a Ph.D. in military history
from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill and is an author of a widely cited
critique of the military command structure’s
refusal to push back against President Lyndon
Johnson’s escalation of the war in Vietnam
called Dereliction of Duty.
McMaster wasn’t Trump’s first choice to
replace disgraced retired three-star general
Mike Flynn as his national security adviser.
Whether he can provide the leadership needed
to coordinate the many energies loose in the
Trump White House remains to be seen. How
much influence he can have in a White House
where Steve Bannon retains the ear of the president as chief strategist remains unclear.
Still, this move is a positive. In picking
McMaster, Trump has shown himself capable,
as he did with the nomination of Neil Gorsuch
to the Supreme Court, of rising above the selfcreated chaos of his administration to hire a
smart, exceptionally competent individual.
It’s encouraging, too, that some of the top
voices pushing Trump to choose McMaster
were figures who have been critical of Trump’s
foreign policy decisions to date. That list
includes Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who has
clashed with Trump repeatedly. That he was
such a strong proponent for McMaster speaks
well of the general. It also speaks well of the
president, who heeded that advice.
McMaster’s appointment deepens the president’s reliance on active-duty and recently
retired military offices in roles that have traditionally, though not exclusively, been held by
civilians. Time could prove that to be a mistake. But that discomfort aside, we look on the
selection of McMaster with relief and hope.
Coordinating America’s national security at
this moment is no small challenge. Our allies
are rattled. Our strategic rivals and foes alike
have grown bolder, in some cases because of
strategic errors many years in the making and
in some cases because of reckless and poorly
planned decisions made since January.
Into this mix, now steps an adviser who is
both scholar and doer, a man of action and
reflection. We suspect all those capacities will
be tested, and soon.
— THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
By ALLAN FALLOW
Los Angeles Times
Remembr speling?
Neither does our president. In his
first tweet as POTUS — posted at
11:57 a.m. on Jan. 21 —
@realDonaldTrump tweeted, “I am
honered (sic) to serve you, the great
American People, as your 45th
President of the United States!” (He
later deleted the message.)
He governs as he campaigned. As
the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank
pointed out in a delicious evisceration
headlined “Trump attaks and dishoners English,” Trump has managed to
mangle gimmes like “shocker”
(“shoker”) and “choker” (“chocker”),
as well as second-round spelling-bee
softballs such as “instincts”
(“insticts”) and “unprecedented”
(“unpresidented”).
Now all of Washington, perhaps
inspired by the man at the helm, is
swimming in a sea of typos.
“No dream is too big, no challenge
is to (sic) great,” reads the inauguration poster recently removed from the
online store of the Library of
Congress.
On Feb. 6, the White House
released a list of 78 terrorist attacks it
claimed the media had underreported.
The list itself was tragically underconsonantalized: Attackers had
become “attakers,” San Bernardino
was allotted a single “R,” and
Denmark got domesticated to
“Denmakr.”
Six days later, the Department of
Education tried to tweet an inspiring
quote (“Education must not simply
teach work — it must teach life”) by
civil rights activist and historian
W.E.B. Du Bois. Just one problem —
or two, depending on how strictly you
grade your students’ papers: The
Education mavens had spelled his last
name “DeBois.” Four hours later
came the predictable correction
tweet: “Our deepest apologizes (sic)
for the earlier typo.”
Does any of this matter? By devoting ink or pixels to the topic, don’t we
simply prove the populist point about
out-of-touch coastal elites?
Once you stop laughing, some useful correctives emerge:
If you can’t figure out the proper
arrangement of 26 little letters, what
does that say about your larger enterprise?
When you find yourself saddled
with a slap-dash reputation, it’s time
to slow down.
Think before you speak. And definitely before you tweet.
As a copy editor at Time-Life Books
in the early 1980s, I was made vividly aware that perpetrating — or merely perpetuating — a typo was a dismissible offense. That may sound
harsh, but excellence in publishing
extends all the way down to taking
care that “minuscule” and “desiccate”
are spelled in the quirky-but-correct
way they demand. (This mind-set
also explains why I never told my
boss about those 2 million direct-mail
brochures for Time-Life’s Civil War
series that went out with “Southern
gentlewomen” rendered as “Southern
gentilewomen.”)
Misspellings can be haunting even
for non-celebrities. New York literary
agent Lynn Johnston says she tries “to
block the worst offenders from my
mind — they’re too painful.” She’s
talking about her own career-capping
typos, mind you, not those committed
by the writers she represents. As
director of membership recruitment
for the American Bar Association in
the early 1990s, for example,
Johnston oversaw the preparation of a
marketing brochure intended to
address “public lawyers.” Instead,
Johnston rues to this day, “The ABA
appeal went out to ‘pubic lawyers.’”
Henry Fuhrmann, the retired assistant managing editor for copy desks
and standards for the Los Angeles
Times, was in the middle of teaching
a journalism class at USC when I
reached him — via Twitter — so I
couldn’t tell whether haste or mortification inspired his curt answer to my
query about erratacism: “Look,” he
typed, “just google ‘Fuhrmann butt
cracks.’”
I did. Assigned to shepherd into print
a story containing the sentence “But
cracks eventually appeared in Lamb’s
public persona,” Fuhrmann’s copy
desk experienced a conjunction dysfunction that yielded “the best typo to
ever run in The Times,” as Tessa
Stuart of LA Weekly dubbed it. (“It
makes for a fun anecdote,” Fuhrmann
later conceded. “In retrospect.”)
No one, evidently, is immune. And
messages composed in the heat of the
social-media moment routinely
betray their spontaneity — I get that.
But when you have 1.07 million
Twitter followers and run a $69.4 billion federal agency with 4,400
employees — or let’s say you have 25
million followers and run the country
— you should probably hire a proofreader to catch, at the very least, the
obvious stuff.
Mr. Precedent, now that you’ve visited CIA HQ and reassured the
spooks you have their backs, may I
offer a reciprocal guarantee? The next
time you’re tempted to express yourself online, ask an intern to scan your
Android screen before you press
“Tweet.” Cultur comes from the top.
Allan Fallow, who tweets as Conan
the Grammarian, is a writer and editor in Alexandria, Va. He wrote this
for the Los Angeles Times.
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Friday, Feb. 24, the 55th day of 2017. There
are 310 days left in the year.
ON THIS DATE:
In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII issued an edict outlining
his calendar reforms. (The Gregorian Calendar is the
calendar in general use today.)
In 1868, the U.S. House of Representatives
impeached President Andrew Johnson following his
attempted dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin M.
Stanton; Johnson was later acquitted by the Senate.
In 1938, the first nylon bristle toothbrush, manufactured by DuPont went on sale.
In 1942, the SS Struma, a charter ship attempting to
carry nearly 800 Jewish refugees from Romania to
British-mandated Palestine during World War II, sank in
the Black Sea after it was torpedoed by a Soviet submarine; all but one of the refugees on board perished.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Actor Dominic Chianese is 86.
Singer Joanie Sommers is 76. Actor Barry Bostwick is
72. Actor Edward James Olmos is 70. Singer Rupert
Holmes is 70. Singer George Thorogood is 67.
Baseball Hall of Famer Eddie Murray is 61. Actor Billy
Zane is 51. Actor Alexander Koch is 29.
— The Associated Press
DOONESBURY CLASSICS ~ 1987 / By Gary Trudeau
The Recorder, Amsterdam, N.Y.
YOUR WORLD
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Malaysia: VX nerve agent killed Kim Jong Nam
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia
(AP) — The poison used to kill
the estranged half brother of
North Korea’s leader at a crowded air terminal in Malaysia last
week was the banned chemical
weapon VX nerve agent, police
said today.
The revelation that VX nerve
agent, deadly even in minute
amounts, was used in the Feb. 13
attack boosted speculation that
Pyongyang dispatched a hit
squad to kill Kim Jong Nam, the
outcast older sibling of North
Korea’s ruler.
The case also raised questions
about public safety, although
there was no sign that any
bystanders had fallen ill. Police
said one of the alleged attackers
had been vomiting in the hours
after the attack, but there were no
reports that anyone else had been
sickened.
Police had gone more than a
week saying the airport was safe,
even though it had not been
decontaminated after a mysterious and deadly poisoning. After
the announcement that VX was to
blame, The Associated Press
asked Malaysia’s InspectorGeneral of Police Khalid Abu
Bakar in a text message whether
decontamination would take
place. He responded, “We are
doing it now.”
He later said police were
arranging for the atomic energy
agency to decontaminate the airport and “sweep all locations
which we knew that the suspects
went to.”
Attacks near Syria
town captured
from IS kill 62
The Associated Press
Passengers scan departure information at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport today in Sepang,
Malaysia. According to police today, forensics has stated that the banned chemical weapon VX
nerve agent was used to kill Kim Jong Nam, the North Korean ruler’s outcast half brother who was
poisoned last week at the airport. The announcement raised serious questions about public safety
in a building that authorities went 11 days without decontaminating.
Asked if people should avoid
the airport because of fears of
contamination, Khalid said, “No.
No. No. But I don’t know. I am
not the expert.”
Director-General
Hamrah
Mohamad Ali of the Atomic
Energy Licensing Board later
told The Associated Press in a
text message that although his
office received a police request
for technical assistance, VX
doesn’t come under his jurisdic-
tion because it’s not radioactive.
Police did not immediately return
messages seeking comment.
The airport operator said in a
statement issued today that the
KLIA2 terminal where Kim was
attacked is safe. Malaysia
Airports said workers who attended to Kim and who clean the airport are healthy, and that anyone
exposed would have shown
symptoms within 18 hours.
VX nerve agent was detected on
BEIRUT (AP) — Two attacks near a Syrian
town just captured by Turkish forces and
Syrian opposition fighters from the Islamic
State group killed at least 60 people, mostly
civilians, and two Turkish soldiers today, as
the group retreats from one of its last remaining strongholds in northern Syria, Turkey’s
news agency and Syrian activists said.
A suicide car bomb went off today outside
a security office operated by Syrian opposition north of al-Bab, killing 60 people, mostly civilians who had gathered to return home
to the town liberated from IS only a day earlier. At least six fighters were among those
killed in the attack, according to Turkey’s
Prime Minister, who spoke in Ankara.
According to Mohammed al-Tawil, a leading Syrian opposition fighter north of al-Bab,
a suicide attacker blew up his small pick-up
truck outside a security office in Sousian village, about 5 miles north of al-Bab. He said
the explosion went off as the opposition
fighters were organizing the return of civilians from al-Bab who had been displaced by
the fighting for their town.
“These people have suffered a lot,” alTawil told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Sousian. “They have
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
Budapest assembly to vote
Wednesday on revoking
Olympic bid
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The mayor of
Budapest says the city assembly will vote
Wednesday on a motion to withdraw the city’s
bid to host the 2024 Olympics.
Mayor Istvan Tarlos, Prime Minister Viktor
Orban and Zsolt Borkai, the head of the
Hungarian Olympic Committee, agreed earlier
this week on the withdrawal after it became
clear that the project would have to face a citywide referendum initiated by the Momentum
Movement, a new political group.
Los Angeles and Paris are the remaining bidders. The International Olympic Committee will
decide on the host in September.
Need a doctor in Naples? Try
tennis court, not hospital
ROME (AP) — Fifty-five employees at a
Naples public hospital, including doctors and
nurses, are under house arrest for allegedly
clocking in, then disappearing from their posts,
including one physician spotted hopping a cab
to play tennis, another suspect who allegedly
worked as a hotel chef while on duty at the hospital, and others who slipped off to go shopping.
Carabinieri police said today that 94 Loreto
Mare hospital employees are being investigated
in the fraud probe. Over two years, police trailed
suspects and filmed them, including one person
who swiped the electronic badges of as many as
20 other no-show colleagues to make it appear
they were at work.
Kim’s eyes and face, Khalid said
earlier in a written statement, citing a preliminary report from the
country’s Center for Chemical
Weapons Analysis.
According to Malaysian investigators, two female suspects coated
their hands with the liquid toxin
and wiped it on Kim’s face as he
waited for a flight home to Macau,
where he lived with his family.
Kim sought help from airport
staff but he fell into convulsions
China, France overtake US as
top German trade partners
BERLIN (AP) — New statistics show that
China and France have overtaken the U.S. as
Germany’s largest trading partners.
Germany’s Federal Statistical Office reported
today that trade between the country and China in
2016 totaled some 170 billion euros (currently
$180 billion) worth of goods. Import and export
trade with France was second at 167 billion euros.
The dpa news agency reported that the U.S.
fell from first to third place, with 165 billion euros
in overall trade.
It remained Germany’s largest market for
exports, however, with a total value of 107 billion
euros in 2016.
Swedish politician: officials
should have sex in lunchbreak
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A politician
in northern Sweden wants to list sex as an officially approved activity for civil servants during
their daily paid lunchbreak.
Per-Erik Muskos of the city council of
Overtornea on the Arctic Circle says he made “a
serious and formal” proposal Monday to add sex
to the list of acceptable activities, which also
include going to the gym or getting a massage,
as well as eating.
He said today that benefits could include
improving employee morale and increasing the
population of the town of about 4,500.
Muskos said the municipality’s 550 employees
are now assessing his proposal before it is discussed in the city council in a few months.
and died on the way to the hospital within two hours of the attack,
police said.
Malaysian police say the
women — one Vietnamese, one
Indonesian — washed their
hands immediately after the
attack as they’d been trained to
do, and had practiced the attack
in Kuala Lumpur shopping malls.
Malaysian police had initially
said no one besides Kim Jong
Nam had been sickened. But
Khalid told reporters that one of
the two women accused of wiping the toxin on Kim’s face
became sick later and suffered
from vomiting. He declined to
say which woman had been sick
but said she is no longer under
treatment.
Khalid said police were still
investigating how the lethal
nerve agent entered Malaysia.
VX nerve agent has the consistency of motor oil and can take
days or even weeks to evaporate.
It could have contaminated anywhere Kim was afterward,
including medical facilities and
the ambulance he was transported
in, experts say.
Dr. Bruce Goldberger, a leading
toxicologist who heads the forensic medicine division at the
University of Florida, said even a
tiny amount of VX nerve agent
can be fatal. An antidote can be
administered by injection. U.S.
medics and military personnel
carried kits with them on the battlefield during the Iraq war in
case they were exposed to the
chemical weapon.
been waiting for this moment” to return
home.
Al-Tawil, a member of the opposition alBab military council, said about four fighters
manning the checkpoint were killed in the
attack. Al-Tawil, who was at the security
office at the time of the explosion, said the
rest of the casualties were civilians from alBab.
Al-Bab, which had been controlled by IS
since late 2013, was captured on Thursday,
after more than two months of intense fighting led by Turkish troops supporting Syrian
opposition fighters.
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Tribune Media Services
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be reviewed by appointment
only. Appointments to review
the Assessment information
INFINITY MED SOLUTIONS
LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the
SSNY on 01/19/2017. Office
loc: Montgomery County. SSNY
has been designated as agent
upon whom process against the
LLC may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to: The LLC, 5010
State Highway 30, Ste 101,
Amsterdam,
NY
12010.
Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.
JAN - 52 1/27 2/3 2/10 2/17
2/24 3/3/17
Notice is hereby given than an
order entered by the Supreme
Court, Montgomery County, on
the 18th day of January 2017,
bearing Index Number 2016820, a copy of which may be
examined at the office of the
clerk, located at 64 Broadway,
Fonda New York, grants me the
right to assume the name of
Jennifer Luna Inaba. The city
and state of my present
address are Amsterdam New
York; the month and year of my
birth are December 1988; the
place of my birth is Springfield
Massachusetts; my present
name is Carl Stears
FEB - 71 2/24/17
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
NOTICE OF ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORTS ON FILE
Public notice is hereby given
that the Annual Report of the
Town of Canajoharie for the
year ending December 31,
2016, and the Annual Report for
the
Canajoharie-Ames
Consolidated Health District for
the year ending December 31,
2016 have been completed and
are available for public inspection. The annual reports may be
reviewed at the Town Clerk’s
office located at 12 Mitchell
Street, Canajoharie, during regular office hours (Monday
through Thursday 9:00am 2:00pm). By Order of the Town
Board Laurie M. Vroman Town
Clerk Dated: February 17, 2017
FEB- 60 2/24/17
NOTICE
OF
ANNUAL
REPORT ON FILE Public
Notice is Hereby given that; the
Annual Report for the Town of
Minden for 2016 has been completed, and available for has
been completed, and available
for public inspection. The annual report may be reviewed at the
Town Clerk’s Office located at
Notice of Conversion of a NY
Limited Liability Company.
Name: BARRETT’S TRANSMISSION LLC. Certificate of
Conversion filing date with
Secretary of State (SSNY) was
4 January 2017. Office location:
Montgomery County. SSNY has
been designated as agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served and
SSNY shall mail copy of
process to 148 Ripple Road,
Cherry Valley, NY 13320.
Purpose is to engage in any
and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.
Feb 19 2/10, 2/17, 2/24, 3/3,
3/10, 3/17/2017
NOTICE OF FORMATION of a
Limited Liability Company
(LLC). Name: Ox Bow Farm
LLC, Articles of Organization
filed with the secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on 1/9/17.
Office location: Montgomery
County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail a
copy of process to: C/O OX
BOW FARM LLC, 165 Oeser
Drive, Sprakers, NY 12166.
Purpose: any Lawful purpose.
Latest date upon which LLC is
to dissolve: No specific date.
Feb 17 2/10, 2/17, 2/24, 3/3,
3/10, 3/17/17
Notice of Formation of Gray’s
Red Dog Trucking LLC. Articles
of Organization filed with
The Recorder, Amsterdam, N.Y.
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LEGALS
Secretary of State (SSNY)
2/06/2017.
Location:
Montgomery County. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against it
may be served. SSNY shall
mail a copy of process to 173
Caswell Rd, Palatine Bridge,
NY 13428. Purpose: Any lawful
activities.
FEB - 28 2/10 2/17 2/24 3/3
3/10 3/17/17
(“SSNY”) on October 28, 2016.
Office Location: Montgomery
County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon
whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail a
copy of process to Jim Phillips,
112
Henrietta
Blvd.,
Amsterdam,
NY
12010.
Purpose: For any lawful purpose.
FEB- 67 2/24 3/3 3/10 3/17 3/24
3/31/17
LEY FARMS, LLC. The articles
of organization of the company
was filed with the Secretary of
State on February 6, 2017.
The county in which the principal place of business of the
Company shall be located is
Montgomery County, New York.
The Secretary of State has
been designated as agent of
the Company upon whom
process against it may be
served. The Secretary of State
shall mail a copy of any process
against SUNSHINE VALLEY
FARMS, LLC to the following
post office address: C/o
Laverne R. Jones Jr. &
Benedict
F.
Jones
347
Reservoir Road Fonda, New
York 12068 The term of the limited liability company shall be
perpetual. The character of the
business of the Company is to
engage in any lawful act or
activity for which limited liability
companies may be organized
under the limited liability company law, and in general to
engage in the business of
Dairy_Farm.
The company is to be managed
by its members.
FEB-72 2/24 3/3 3/10 3/17 3/24
3/31/17
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
1. The name of the limited liability company is
S & J ORCHARD, LLC
2. The articles of organization
of the limited liability company
were filed with the New York
State Secretary of State on
January 24, 2017.
3. The county within New York
State in which the office of the
limited liability company is to be
located is Montgomery.
4. The New York State
Secretary of State has been
designated as agent of the limited liability company upon whom
process against it may be
served and the post office
address within or without this
state to which the Secretary of
State shall mail a copy of any
process against it served upon
him or her is 217 Shafer Road,
Sprakers, NY 12166.
5. The character or purpose of
the business of such limited liability company is to engage in
any lawful act or activity for
which limited liability companies
may be organized under the
Limited Liability Company Law
of the State of New York.
Feb 8 2/3, 2/10, 2/17, 2/24, 3/3,
3/10/17
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
(“LLC”).
NAME:
Assunta
Properties, LLC. Articles of
Organization were filed with the
Secretary of State of New York
NOTICE OF FORMATION of
Limited Liability Company
(LLC). Articles of Organization
filed with NYS Department of
State (NYSD) on January 21,
2014, for ALEXANDER REALTY MANAGEMENT, LLC, Office
location: Montgomery County,
NYSDS, Secretary of State, has
been designated as gent of the
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
NYSDS, Secretary of State,
shall mail a copy of any process
to ALEXANDER REALIY MANAGEMENT, LLC, at its address
for service, namely: ALEXANDER REALTY MANAGEMENT,
LLC, 16 Crane St., Amsterdam,
NY 12010. Purpose of LLC is
engage in any lawful act or
activity.
JAN - 33 1/20 1/26 2/3 2/10
2/17 2/24/17
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
SUNSHINE VALLEY FARMS,
LLC DATED: February 8, 2017
347 Reservoir Road Fonda,
New York 12068 Notice is hereby given of the formation of the
above named limited liability
company for the transaction of
business in the State of New
York and elsewhere. Pursuant
to Limited Liability Company
Law Section 206 ( C ); your
attention is directed to the following facts:
The name of the limited liability
company is SUNSHINE VAL-
LEGALS
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: 160 Enterprise,
LLC. Articles of Organization
were filed with the Secretary of
State of New York (SSNY) on
12/27/2016. Office location:
Montgomery County. SSNY has
been designated as agent of
the LLC upon whom process
against it may be served. SSNY
shall mail a copy of the process
to the LLC c/o Lynn M. Coles,
Esq., Cioffi Slezak Wildgrube
P.C., 1473 Erie Boulevard, 1st
floor, Schenectady, NY 12305.
Purpose: For any lawful purpose.
JAN - 47 1/27 2/3 2/10 2/17
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Notice of Formation of Zakra
Fortuna LLC, Art. of Org. filed
with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on
12/30/16.
Office
location:
Montgomery County. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against it
may be served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to Yik Cheng,
262 E. Main St, Amsterdam, NY
12010. Purpose: any lawful
activities.
Feb 12 2/3, 2/10, 2/17, 2/24,
3/3, 3/10/17
Notice of Formation of: Ox
Bow
Farm,
LLC
Office
Location:, Montgomery County,
NY Articles of Organization filed
with the Secretary of State of
New
York
(“SSNY”)
on
1/19/2017. SSNY is designated
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served, and SSNY shall mail
process to Linda E. Logan, 165
Oeser Dr., Sprakers, NY 12166.
Purpose: any lawful purpose.
FEB - 20 2/10 2/17 2/24 3/3
3/10 3/17/17
Notice of Formation of: Valley
Housewares,
LLC
Office
Location:, Montgomery County,
NY Articles of Organization filed
with the Secretary of State of
New York (“SSNY”) on 1/9/2017.
SSNY is designated agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served, and
SSNY shall mail process to
Daniel O. Stoltzfus, 788 Sanders
Road, Fort Plain, NY 13339.
Purpose: any lawful purpose.
FEB - 22 2/10 2/17 2/24 3/3
3/10 3/17/17
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF
ADK Property & Restoration,
LLC, Articles of organization
filed with the Secretary of State
of NY(SSNY) on January 3,
2017.
Office location Fulton
County NY. SSNY has been
designated as agent upon
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LEGALS
LEGALS
whom process it may be
served. The post office address
to which the SSNY shall mail a
copy of process against the
LLC served upon him is: 129
Woodland Ave, Gloversville, NY
12078
Jan 58 1/27, 2/3, 2/10, 2/17,
2/24, 3/3/2017
Montgomery and State of NY,
Section 39.20 Block 2 Lot 57.
Approximate amount of judgment $84,925.87 plus interest
and costs. Premises will be sold
subject to provisions of filed
Judgment Index# 2015-1091.
Gerard
DeCusatis,
Esq.,
Referee Shapiro, DiCaro &
Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the
Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing
Boulevard Rochester, New York
14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated:
January 4, 2017
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FEB - 1 2/10 2/17 2/24 3/3/17
NOTICE OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY The name of he
limited liability company is
NARE FARMS, LLC, The Article
of Organization were filed effective February 8, 2017. The
Office of the LLC is located in
Montgomery County, New York.
The secretary of State is designated as agent of the limited
liability company upon whom
process against it may be
served. The Post Office
address to which the Secretary
of State shall mail a copy of any
process served against it is
2023 Hickory Hill Road, Fonda,
New York 12068. NARE
FARMS, LLC is eligible to register as an LLC and shall engage
in the business of all lawful
activities.
FEB - 70 2/24 3/3 3/10 3/17
3/24 3/31/17
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME
COURT COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY Wells Fargo Bank,
NA, Plaintiff AGAINSTEdward
Kurtzner a/k/a Edward L.
Kurtzner; et al., Defendant(s)
Pursuant to a Judgment of
Foreclosure and Sale duly dated
November 10, 2016 I, the
undersigned Referee will sell at
public
auction
at
the
Montgomery County Office
Building, Fonda, New York on
March 14, 2017 at 9:00AM,
premises known as 6 Meadow
Street, Amsterdam, NY 12010.
All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings
and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the City of
Amsterdam,
County
of
PARILLO’S ARMORY GRILL,
LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the
SSNY on 02/07/2017. Office
loc: Montgomery County. SSNY
has been designated as agent
upon whom process against the
LLC may be served. SSNY shall
mail process to: The LLC, 67
Bridge Street, Amsterdam, NY
12078. Purpose: Any Lawful
Purpose.
FEB- 33 2/10 2/17 2/24 3/3 3/10
3/17/17
The Board of Directors of the
Montgomery County Sanitary
District No.1 has cancelled their
Saturday, February 18th monthly board meeting. The meeting
has been rescheduled for
Saturday, February 25th at 8:30
am.
FEB - 65 2/24/17
The Jmax Enterprise, LLC
Articles of organization filed on
10/31/2016. the LLC will be
located in Montgomery county.
process against this LLC. may
be served with SSNY for any
Legal purpose. SSNY. shall mail
a copy of any process against
the LLC. served upon him or
her to James Maxham at 88
Glen ave. Amsterdam NY.
12010. This LLC has no determined date to dissolve.
JAN - 38 1/20 1/27 2/3 2/10
2/17 2/24/17
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MENDING & ALTERATIONS
Zippers • Hems • Etc.
Garages • Additions • Kitchens
Carpentry • Bathrooms •
Masonry • Roofing and Siding
Fully Insured ~ Free Estimates
843-5684 or
729-8827
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843-2578
MEGHAN’S
• Reasonable Rates •
BUILDING & REMODELING LLC
HEATING
HOME IMPROVEMENT
Doug Guisti
Home Improvement
Joe’s
Refrigeration & Air Conditioning
• Furnaces • Boilers
• Water Heaters
• Central Air • Window AC
Sales & Service • Rebates Available
859-0164 or 858-9930
518-883-7390
ROOFING
Siding• New Garages • Kitchens & Bathrooms
Decks • Replacement Windows & Doors
Additions • General Carpentry
Serving the area since 1982
Fully insured - Free estimates
518-265-8471
FIREWOOD
CARS
(518) 627-0011 • (518) 857-2448
Emergency Services Include
Lockout’s • Battery Boost’s
Gas Delivery’s • Flat Tire Change’s
Winchout’s • Flat Bed Service’s
261 East Main Street
Amsterdam, NY
sampsonmotorcar.com
ROOFING & SIDING
J. BERNARDO
CONTRACTING
• Snow Removal from Roofs,
Walks, Driveways
• Emergency Roof Repairs
• Booking for Interior Work
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843-9703
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FIREWOOD
FOR SALE
ALTERI’S
TREE SERVICE
Home #: 883-7329 • Cell #: 424-8045
alteristreeservice.com
SNOWPLOWING
Ken Hanson
Paving
Commercial & Residential
Now Accepting New Customers
Snowplow/Sanding
Cement * Septic Systems
Trucking * Excavation * Paving
Free Estimates & Insured
829-7231 or 378-2982
New Service Directory begins on the1st of each month.
Deadline is three business days prior to the end of each month at 2pm.
CLASSIFIED
LEGALS
SERVICES
The
Town
of
Mohawk
Assessor’s Office has available
for review assessment and
inventory data for all parcels in
the Town of Mohawk. The
Assessor’s Office is open
Monday 9:00 - 3:00 and
Wednesday, 11:00 - 2:00 and
4:00 - 7:00. An appointment
may be made with the assessor
for those wishing to review this
information.
Stella
Gittle,
Assessor. 518-853-3031
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Town of Minden In accordance
with New York State Real
Property Tax Law 501, notice is
hereby given that the Town of
Minden Assessor has assessment inventory and valuation
data available for review. This
information will be available on
Tuesdays from 3 PM to 7 PM at
the Assessor’s Office located at
134 State Hwy 80, Fort Plain,
NY 13339. Telephone number:
518-993-4844 Janet Trumbull,
Town Clerk Dated: 2/14/2017
Feb 43 2/17, 2/24/17
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GROWING LOCAL COMPANY
SEEKING:
Human
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Supervisor.
Full-time
Human
Resources professional. Bachelor’s
degree plus a minimum of 5 years of
previous experience. Must be proficient in the areas of benefits management and payroll processing/administration for 85+ employees. Must have
previous experience with payroll systems, unemployment insurance and
workers compensation. The ideal candidate will be organized, detail-oriented, professional, able to develop and
maintain excel spreadsheets, be
experienced with recruitment, employee relations and disciplinary process.
Experience with Paychex a plus.
To be considered: please email your
cover letter, resume, and salary
requirements to:
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NEED CASH Buying toys, costume
jewelry, coins and antiques. Call
518-705-9028
CDL CLASS A DRIVER Home
Daily, Full Benefits. Call Mon - Fri
(9am - 5pm) Greene Trucking Amsterdam, NY (518)843-3220
SERVICES
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$39.99/mo. Plus $14.99/mo Internet
(where avail.) FREE Streaming.
FREE Install (up to 6 rooms.) FREE
HD-DVR. Call 1-800-399-8952
HELP WANTED
2 TEMP FARMWORKERS needed
4/1/17 - 11/5/17. Workers will perform duties associated w/ planting,
cultivating & harvesting hay straw &
vegetables according to supervisor’s
instructions. Must have 3 months
verifiable experience operating 50
+hp farm equipment & affirmative
verifiable job references. Random
drug testing at employer’s expense.
Guaranteed æ of contract hours.
Work tools, supplies, equipment provided at no cost. Conditional housing provided for non-commuting
workers. Transportation & subsistence reimbursed to worker upon
completion of 50% of contract or
earlier if appropriate. $12.38/hr or
current
applicable
AEWR.
Raise/bonus at employer discretion.
EOE. Worksites in Montgomery Co.,
NY. Report or send a resume to the
nearest NY DOL or call 877-4669757 & ref job #NY1195604. Allhay
Farms-Amsterdam, NY
NTI GLOBAL has immediate openings for the following positions: 1st
shift industrial sewing associate, FT
and 1st shift machine operator, FT.
Please apply within or send resume
to [email protected].
RN/LPN’S NEEDED Full time and
Substitutes. Send Resume to
Amsterdam School, PO Box 309,
Amsterdam, NY 12010, Attn. M
Downing.
INDUSTRIAL
ELECTRICIAN
Seeking an experienced Industrial
Electrician with 3-phase, 480V, and
industrial troubleshooting experience
to assemble, install, test, and maintain
electrical or electronic wiring, equipment, appliances, apparatus, and fixtures, using hand, power, and precision measuring tools. Qualifications : Four years journey level electrical
experience; OR, Completion of a fouryear federally approved technical
training program in electrical repair
and maintenance and two years electrical experience; OR, Any equivalent
combination of experience and/or
education. - High School diploma or
equivalent. Full Time Position M-F 7
AM-4 PM. Pay based on experience.
Please send resume to [email protected]
BUILDING
MATERIALS
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advantage of our 50/50/50 Sale on
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Laminate, Vinyl and Tile. Call 855401-7965 for details!
APARTMENTS FOR
RENT
368 DIVISION STREET Upper 3
bdrm, no pets, month plus security,
credit check. 646-539-9153
CANAJOHARIE, 2 BDR APT., spacious, 1st mo/sec req’d $575. A&M
Prospect Properties LTD 518-7738457
LARGE
4
BDRM
UPPER,
Gloversville, kitchen, lvgrm, dngrm,
washer/dryer hookup, no pets. $775.
first, last, security and 1 yr lease.
518-894-8842
LARGE CONVERTIBLE 4 bedroom, $850, No Pets, No Utilities
Bckgrnd/Credit Chck, 3mths to
move Amsterdam, Jess 646-8017641
LINCOLN AVENUE 3 Bedroom
Lower, w/ garage, no pets/smoking,
$700 month plus security, references needed, call 518-928-1725
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APARTMENTS FOR
RENT
UNIQUE 2ND FLOOR 2 BEDROOM, with additional Mother - in
law
Suite,
Union
Street,
Amsterdam, $750 month, security
plus 1st month, No smoking / no
pets, references required. 315-3160035
WE OFFER 1-4 bedroom apts. From
$425 - $600. Apartments are good
condition and located in Good
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MISC. FOR SALE
(PERSONAL ITEMS)
186 SQ. FT. Bamboo Flooring, new
in boxes, paid $785 asking $500
Call 518-842-8866
4 NEW TIRES and Mags, Mounted.
MS 245/35 R20 95Y, 6 spokes for
mags, 10 hole bolt pattern. $500.
takes all. 518-842-8352
CONN SERENADE ORGAN Self
contained with 4 built in speakers
and bench. Nice for home use. Pick
up only. $1200. OBO. 661-6355
ELECTRIC WHEEL CHAIR 350 lb
capacity, joy stick control, used one
month, New $1300 / selling $700
obo. Call 518-842-6874
MISC. FOR SALE
OPTELEC, AN AUTO focus desktop
video
magnification
system
designed to assist people with low
vision enjoy reading, writing, viewing
photos doing hobbies and lots more.
I paid $2600 for this system. Its user
has passed so I will sell it for $600 .
I will include manual, set up posters
to help you to use it to its full potential, I will include the table and a
chair. Contact me at 518 707 6283
PLAID COUCH $50., umbrella
stroller $10. 843-3010
TOMTOM GPS $20, girls bicycle
$30, old records, books, magazines, newspapers, sports cards,
foot stools, autograph baseballs &
pictures, Russian Souvenirs 1980’s.
call 518-774-1331 / 518-842-7954
TREADMILL folding, elevates, New
$1399., Sale $400. Nine Speeds.
Call for more info 518-829-7338.
GE SPACE-MAKER MICROWAVE
bisque in color, excellent condition
$25. Call 518-843-3932
LADIES CLASSIC GOLF CLUBS
Full set $160.00, 2 pair of ladies golf
shoes size 8 1/2 medium, $40. each.
All like new. Call 518-661-6355
WINTER TIRES Goodyear Ultra Ice
235-60R-16. Set of four. No measurable wear. Call (518)842-9166.
NOKIAN SNOW TIRES Set of 4.
225/55/R/18. Like new. 518-8297703
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HOUSEHOLD CONTENTS SALE
Final Day. Saturday 2/25 9 AM - 3
PM. Loads of stuff left for bargain
hunters. Several new items added.
(reclining sofa, bar stools, etc) 125
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TV NEWS & NOTES
Oscars look to ‘La La
For Miranda Otto, role in new
Land,’ host Kimmel
‘24’ is the right kind of challenge
for ratings boost
LOS ANGELES (AP) — If the Oscars had doubled down on nominating films with actors named Ryan, the ceremony’s chances for a ratings bounce might be as likely as host Jimmy Kimmel’s Trump jokes.
Saluting a blockbuster like Ryan Reynolds’ “Deadpool” is the surest
way to lure viewers. But there’s optimism
afoot that the Ryan Gosling-Emma Stone
charmer “La La Land,” combined with popstar performances and Kimmel’s agile wit,
will make Sunday’s ceremony on ABC (8 p.m.
EST) a winner.
“The fact that ‘La La Land’ is a musical, it’s
a feel-good movie, it’s a romantic movie, it
does bode well for the ratings this year,” said
Paul Dergarabedian, senior analyst with media
research firm comScore.
The modern reimagining of a classic
Hollywood musical received a record-tying 14
KIMMEL
nominations, including for best picture, its
stars and writer-director Damien Chazelle. “La La Land” has dominated other awards, including the Golden Globes and Screen Actors
Guild.
Among the eight other competitors are “Moonlight,” “Manchester
by the Sea” and “Fences.” Missing in action despite an unfilled 10th
slot: superhero romp “Deadpool.” That means the ceremony, which
last year posted its smallest audience in eight years (34 million), can’t
ride the movie’s $363 million box-office coattails to ratings glory.
The comparable North American take for “La La Land,” $134 million and counting, is far from shabby. The same goes for the topgrossing nominee, “Hidden Figures,” which has surpassed $144 million, according to comScore.
And there will be no shortage of high-wattage star power in the
three-hour ceremony. The nominees include heavyweights Denzel
Washington (”Fences”) and Meryl Streep (”Florence Foster Jenkins”),
with presenters ranging from newcomers (Felicity Jones, Riz Ahmed)
to veterans (Samuel L. Jackson, Shirley MacLaine).
The tunes are courtesy of top-tier musicians performing nominated
songs, including John Legend (”Audition” and “City of Stars” from
“La La Land”) and Justin Timberlake (”Can’t Stop The Feeling” from
“Trolls”).
With Washington among several African-American nominees, the
“OscarsSoWhite” protests that marked last year’s event — and gave
host Chris Rock ample comedy fodder — are absent. Instead, as with
other recent awards shows, President Donald Trump could be a prime
target of Kimmel’s quips and those seeking to vent.
The president “absolutely” will be mentioned during the show,
Kimmel said, but how much depends on the news of the day. The comedian downplayed the possibility of backlash from Trump supporters.
“I think smart people know funny is funny,” Kimmel said.
“Everybody, for some reason, has decided that they have to pick a
side, and I think people would be a lot happier if, when they heard a
joke, they enjoyed the joke and didn’t attach some kind of rooting
interest to it.”
But scattered and competing calls have already arisen for a boycott
of the telecast or the ceremony itself, from those fed up with
Hollywood’s activism and industry insiders seeking to make a statement about Trump’s policies.
Whatever the evening’s tone, an inescapable truth is that bigger
movie grosses mean better Oscar ratings: “Titanic,” which brought in
more than $600 million domestically, holds the record with 55 million
viewers in 1998. The ceremony also boasted audience favorite Billy
Crystal as host.
“Selfishly, we’d love to have ‘Rogue One’ nominated for best picture, or ‘Jungle Book’ nominated for best picture,” ceremony producer Michael De Luca said. He waxed nostalgically about years past, in
which popular hits including 1975’s “Jaws” and 1977’s “Star Wars”
were contenders.
“We’re a little envious of that that era because it means more eyes
on the telecast. .... But you play the hand you’re dealt,” he said.
In the cynical view of one Oscar watcher, that hand reflects the
increasingly entrenched attitude of movie academy members about
which films are worthy of honors.
“The individual (Oscar) voters aren’t thinking of the ratings. They’re
simply invested in being snobs,” said Tom O’Neil, editor of the
awards-prediction website GoldDerby.com. “In recent years, they’re
embracing art-house films and message movies, specifically indie
films. They automatically perceive that as art.”
Even the expansion of the best-picture category to 10 potential nominees, which followed the snubbing of 2008’s critically acclaimed
blockbuster “The Dark Knight,” has largely failed to dent voter resistance to box-office champs.
“Titanic” filmmaker James Cameron put it bluntly in an interview
last month. The movie academy considers its “patrician duty to tell the
great unwashed what they should be watching,”’ not rewarding what
viewers pay to see, Cameron told The Daily Beast. “And as long as
the academy sees that as their duty, don’t expect high ratings. Expect
a good show, and do that duty, but don’t whine about your ratings.”
Yet ABC, De Luca and fellow producer Jennifer Todd remain upbeat.
“This is our Super Bowl,” said Marla Provencio, ABC
Entertainment’s executive vice president for marketing. The ceremony is traditionally the network’s most-watched program and television’s top-rated non-sports event.
Advertisers remain game despite a 7 percent decline in viewers last
year, with ads going at about the same rate as 2016’s $2.15 million per
30-second spot and for up to $2.5 million, according to Advertising
Age. (TV’s undisputed blockbuster, the Super Bowl, reportedly
brought up to $5.5 million for 30-second ads on Fox this year.)
By LUAINE LEE
Tribune News Service
PASADENA, Calif. — While her
school mates were watching soccer
matches and British soaps on the
telly, Australian actress Miranda
Otto was viewing surgical procedures. “That fascinated me,” she
says. “I used to watch all these
operations on TV and thought it
would be really cool to do that.”
A bright kid, Otto was on her
way to becoming a doctor when
she was kidnapped by acting.
She should’ve known better. Her
father, Barry Otto, is a wellknown actor Down Under, and
she used to spend hours watching
him perform.
“The level of energy and passion in the conversations I’d see
at dinner about it, that’s what was
so seductive about it — to be so
engaged with what you were
doing,” she says.
“It seemed like such a great way
to live your life rather than being
a job where it’s ‘What time do we
knock off?’ You never knock off
when you’re in that world. It was
the passion of the actors that I
saw … I wanted to be living in
the height of that passion with
other people engaged together. It
really got me going. It’s that
magic that really sucked me in,
coming together and doing something together,” she says.
It’s a mesmerizing field, she
says, seated at a small, round
table in a dark lounge here. “I
was cast in a film toward the end
of high school. Even then I wasn’t sure. I got into medicine at
university, then deferred a year to
see. Then I started acting and just
never went back to university.”
She says the more formidable
the role, the more she likes it, as
she proved when she played the
evil Allison Carr in “Homeland,”
and now in “24: Legacy,” Fox’s
spinoff of its series, “24.”
The role of the former chief of
Washington’s counter intelligence
unit on “Legacy” agitates those little gray cells, she says. “What I’ve
enjoyed so much about working on
this show and ‘Homeland’is sometimes in acting you start to feel like
your brain starts to atrophy, in
terms of are you challenging yourself intellectually,” she says.
“A lot of roles are from an emotional base, and what I enjoyed
about this is that I’m actually learning new things and have research to
do and there’s a level of ideology
that’s involved in these shows.”
Still she confesses sometimes
she questions her decision to forsake medicine for acting. “I ask
myself, ‘What is the value of acting and the attention that actors
get? And yet there are so many
people in the world doing incredible things for mankind and they
don’t get much attention.’ I do
question about that, but I don’t
think I would’ve been a great doctor. I think I would’ve been a good
surgeon. That fascinated me.”
Otto, 49, is married to actor
Peter O’Brien and they have a
daughter, 11. When Miranda was
5 her parents divorced. She thinks
that experience left her with the
sense of life’s fragility. “As much
as it felt totally normal because I
didn’t know anything different,
but when I was at school other
kids found it weird that my parents were separated,” she recalls.
“But I can’t help but think what
would it be like to be in a family
that stays together, to have that
confidence that the world is really
Fox broadcasting
Australian actress Mirando Otto plays the former chief of
Washington's intelligence unit in Fox's reboot of its “24” premise
in the new series, “24: Legacy.”
stable? I think … it gives you a
certain sensitivity, you don’t think
everything’s going to stay the same
and be what you want it to be. My
parents were great, and they’re
really good friends. So there’s no
animosity, but there’s that thing,
that awareness: Don’t get used to
something because it can change.”
Becoming a mother also altered
her perceptions. “My daughter
has changed how I see the world
and how I live my life,” says Otto.
“It affects everything, obviously the love that you feel and all
those things, but just also from
the priorities that you have and
the things that you enjoy and the
things you realize about yourself.
“It’s the same as getting married, it’s confrontational at
times,” she says. “The things you
can get away with. The ideas you
have of yourself when you’re
single and no one can challenge
them, are really different when
you’re in a marriage and get a
stronger view of yourself. What
your weaknesses are, where
you’re failing, where you’re
strong. That’s the same with
being a mother. I start to hear
myself saying things and think,
‘Wow, that was a really crap
thing I just said. “Just because.”
Why am I not explaining it?’ It
makes you see where you’re
strong and where you’re weak.”
Otto wishes she were more selfassured. “I would like to be more
confident about everything; to
not doubt,” she says.
ANIMATRONIC ANIMALS
SPY IN THE WILD
Just when you think wildlife
photographers have done it all,
along comes a new technique that
reveals animals up close and personal as never before. PBS’
“Nature” is employing animatronic animals with cameras hidden
behind their eyes to snag a closer
look in its miniseries, “Spy in the
Wild,” airing Wednesday nights.
It turns out that situating a fake
animal among the pack wasn’t
enough to convince the wily creatures that this interloper is one of
them. “You have to think of various methods to get these spy creatures accepted within an animal
group,” says producer Pete Dalton.
“And meerkats is a good example. We worked quite closely with
the scientists to make sure we
were making the right decisions
before deploying (the fake) in
amongst the wild meerkats. And
he suggested to me that it would
be a good idea to get the smell of
the group of the meerkats we were
going to film on our spy meerkat.
So I thought this was probably a
very good idea. We need all the
help we can get to ensure that it’s
accepted. So I asked him, ‘What’s
the smell?’And he said, ‘Phil, I’m
afraid it’s fresh poo, meerkat
droppings. That’s essential.’
“So I went out with him, and we
gathered the droppings and we
anointed our spy meerkat very
delicately with the poo. And then
we deployed it. And the group at
first saw it from a distance. They
were a little bit suspicious. They
came in quite tentatively, but as
they got closer, they got a whiff
of our spy meerkat, and they visibly relaxed. They knew that the
smell was familiar. It was from
their own group. So therefore, our
spy creature was not threatening.
And then they went in, and they
sniffed, and then from that point
on, they accepted it pretty rapidly.
And it was actually so successful
that when the group decided to go
off hunting, to go off foraging,
they left our spy meerkat behind
to babysit the youngsters.”
BILL PAXTON
TURNS ROGUE
We’re so used to seeing Bill
Paxton as the sweet, sometimes
misled guy in shows like “Big
Love,” and “Texas Rising,” it’s
refreshing to find him the antagonist in CBS’ new “Training
Day.” “I think the thing that I
really dug about this whole thing
— besides that it has been a lot of
fun to play such a rakish, rogue
character — it kind of plays to all
of my strengths,” he says.
“I like to be entertaining. That’s
what I do. I’m an entertainer.
And Frank Rourke, if he’s anything, he is at least entertaining
… There’s a real Western ethic
involved in this character, ethos,
I should say. He’s a throwback.
He’s a gunfighter. He’s almost
been pulled out of a time-capsule
and put in modern times, because
he has this old kind of gunslinger
code of honor. He’s tough, but
he’s fair. And he’s kind of woken
up in this digital age, and he
doesn’t really know quite what to
make of it. I can relate to that as
Bill. And it’s just a lot of fun.”
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MacGyver “Ruler” The team is Hawaii Five-0 McGarrett and
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Politics and Public Policy Today (In Stereo) Å
Politics and Public Policy Today Å
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Unit Beating/rape. Å
Unit “Care” (In Stereo) Å
Unit Sexual assault by women. Unit “Monogamy” Å
infiltrates a brokerage firm.
committing fraud. Å
Break-Up”
KORRES Beauty (N) Å
Vince Camuto Collection (N) Vince Camuto Collection (N) IMAN Global Chic Fashions
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HSN 5 / Vince Camuto Collection (N) Minnetonka Moccasins (N)
House to Home by Valerie Å
Quacker Factory, Jeanne Bice H by Halston Å
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Perricone MD Cosmeceuticals orYANY Bags
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Weatherscan Local From The Weather Channel
TWC 7 A Weatherscan Local From The Weather Channel
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NBA Basketball: Dallas Mavericks at Minnesota Timberwolves. (N) (Live)
NBA Basketball: San Antonio Spurs at Los Angeles Clippers. (N) (Live)
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College Basketball: Dayton at Davidson. (N) (Live)
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Bring It! (N) Å
The Rap Game (N) Å
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Bring It! Å
LIFE > ; Bring It! Å
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Rihanna is named Harvard’s
Humanitarian of the Year
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Rihanna has been
named the 2017 Harvard University Humanitarian of
the Year.
The Grammy Award-winning singer will receive the
Harvard Foundation’s Peter J. Gomes
Humanitarian Award at a ceremony
scheduled for Feb. 28.
Rihanna is being honored for several philanthropic efforts. She built a
state-of-the-art center for oncology
and nuclear medicine to diagnose and
treat breast cancer in her home nation
of Barbados. She created the Clara
RIHANNA
and Lionel Foundation Scholarship
Program — named for her grandparents — for students
attending college in the U.S. from Caribbean countries.
She also supports the Global Partnership for
Education and Global Citizen Project to provide children with access to education in more than 60 developing countries.
Previous winners include actor James Earl Jones,
activist Malala Yousafzai and four U.N. secretaries general.
Reeves to direct ‘The Batman’
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Cloverfield” director Matt
Reeves has stepped in to direct “The Batman” for
Warner Bros. just a few weeks after star Ben Affleck left
the post. Warner Bros. said Thursday that Reeves
would also produce the stand-alone film.
Reeves is known for directing “Dawn of the Planet of
the Apes.
Affleck, who is also writing the screenplay, dropped out of
directing the project in late January citing the focus required
to play the superhero. He’ll appear next as Batman in
“Justice League” which comes out in November. There is
no release date set for “The Batman.”
Nick Cannon names son ‘Golden’
The “America’s Got Talent” host posted a picture of
himself Wednesday on Instagram holding son Golden
“Sagon” Cannon. He writes in the caption, “No matter
how hard the world may hit you, God always reminds
us of our purpose!” He adds: “Welcome to Earth Son!”
The 36-year-old Cannon announced in November that
he was expecting a baby with his ex-girlfriend, Brittany
Bell, a former beauty queen.
The baby is Cannon’s third child. He also has 5-yearold twins with ex-wife Mariah Carey.
Oprah Winfrey slated to address
Skidmore, Smith colleges
SARATOGA SPRINGS (AP) — Oprah Winfrey has
agreed to give commencement speeches at colleges
in Massachusetts and New York.
Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and
Skidmore College in Saratoga
Springs, both say Winfrey will
address students at their spring
graduation ceremonies.
One of Smith’s graduating
students and another from
Skidmore previously attended
the Oprah Winfrey Leadership
Academy, a boarding school
that the media mogul opened in
WINFREY
2007 for poor girls in South
Africa.
Winfrey, a graduate of Tennessee State University,
is scheduled to speak May 20 at Skidmore and a day
later at Smith.
Each school says it will award her an honorary
degree.
Winfrey also was at Skidmore in October 2013 to
visit two graduates of her South African school.
16 / Friday, February 24, 2017
YOUR LIFE
The Recorder, Amsterdam, N.Y.
GARFIELD / By Jim Davis
DILBERT / By Scott Adams
JEFF MACNELLY’S SHOE / By Chris Cassatt & Gary Brookins
B.C. / By Mastroianni & Hart
HAGAR THE HORRIBLE / By Chris Browne
BLONDIE / By Dean Young & Denis LeBrun
MUTTS / By Patrick McDonnell
LUANN / By Greg Evans
Fiance wrongly blamed for break-up
DEAR ABBY: My
fiancee and I plan to be
married next year. I met
her after she left her
husband because he had
cheated on her twice.
She refuses to tell her
daughters that she left
their dad because he
cheated, so I am
By
doomed to be the “bad
ABIGAIL
guy” for eternity. They
think I’m “the man who
VAN BUREN
stole Mama from
Daddy.” Her youngest
(age 25) thinks I’m the devil incarnate
and is unbelievably rude to me, no matter
who is around. I’m thinking marriage will
be hell because she and her mother interact every day. What am I to do? –
BLAMELESS IN THE SOUTH
DEAR BLAMELESS: This is not a question of what “you” should do. It’s a question
of what you and your fiancee should do
together. While it may not be necessary for
her to tell her adult daughters that their
father was a cheater, and that’s the reason
she left him, she should definitely call a
family meeting and clear the air by telling
them that you were not the reason the marriage ended. She should also insist that you
be treated with respect – if not affection.
However, if she’s unwilling to do that, then
you should seriously consider calling off the
wedding because a marriage under those
conditions would be miserable for you. Her
daughters would guarantee it.
DEAR ABBY: This is in response to
“Another Husband in Oregon” (Sept. 3)
who wondered about the “man cave”
behavior he had observed in his neighbors. I can tell you from personal experience that the appeal of spending long
hours working on mechanical things in a
garage or workshop in total solitude is
strong for many men. Regarding the guy
who rebuilt an antique truck from the
DEAR ABBY
ground up, if you go to any car show featuring restored cars, you can’t help but
admire the time, energy, skill and commitment some men put into a restoration.
These can be works of art.
Balance is very important to a successful
marriage. Before a wife complains about
too much time spent in the “cave” (and
not all do complain), she should consider
the upside. He is safe, he’s not blowing
family money in a bar or at a blackjack
table, and he’s not chasing other women.
And he just may be creating something
unique that will give him great pride and
satisfaction. – PAUL IN WISCONSIN
DEAR PAUL: When I put the question
about “garaged husbands” out to my readers,
they were forthcoming with their views. The
responses – predominantly from men, but
also some of their wives – were overwhelmingly positive.
While the theory of spending too much
time in the garage as a result of being
“frozen out of the bedroom” was raised,
most readers affirmed the value of having
separate time from a spouse – as long as it is
only “spare” time. Wives wrote that it
enables them to catch up on reading, shopping, a project with the kids or grandkids, or
watch a favorite TV show or movie.
Both spouses extolled the results produced
in the “cave” – restored vintage cars, woodworking items and various repairs. Visiting is
permitted, and there’s learning to be had for
the kids. And, as a number of readers reminded us, “At least you know where he is.”
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 Angeles, CA 90069.
HOROSCOPE
BY FRANCIS DRAKE
King Features Syndicate
For Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017
ARIES
(March 21 to April 19)
Listen to someone older, especially
in a group, because this person will
have advice for you. This also is a
good day to discuss your future goals
with someone.
TAURUS
(April 20 to May 20)
In discussions with bosses, parents
and VIPs, you look solid and reliable.
People respect you today. Just go
with the flow and reap these benefits.
GEMINI
(May 21 to June 20)
You’re in the right frame of mind for
some serious studying today. You
have the concentration, focus and
attention to detail to accomplish a lot.
Discussions about religion, politics
and relationship issues might take
place.
CANCER
(June 21 to July 22)
This is an excellent day to deal with
disputes about inheritances and
shared property. People are cautious,
conservative and results-oriented.
LEO
(July 23 to Aug. 22)
You are ready to cooperate with
others today, because the Moon is
opposite your sign. This means you
have to give a little. Accept that you
should defer to someone older who is
pulling the strings.
VIRGO
(Aug. 23 to Sept. 22)
There is a lovely, practical influence
today that will help you get a lot
done, especially at work. Today also
favors any activity related to pets.
LIBRA
(Sept. 23 to Oct. 22)
Vacations, sports events and fun,
social occasions require planning and
work. Today is the day to do this sort
of thing. You have vision, and you will
not overlook any details.
SCORPIO
(Oct. 23 to Nov. 21)
Family discussions about home
repairs will be a positive thing today.
A female family member probably will
be in charge. (“Hi, Mom.”)
SAGITTARIUS
(Nov. 22 to Dec. 21)
You are motivated, clear-headed
and personally ambitious today,
which is why you have a serious todo list. Get on it, and get things done.
CAPRICORN
(Dec. 22 to Jan. 19)
This is a good day for financial discussions, business and commerce.
You won’t overlook details. You will
be open-minded, but also cautious.
AQUARIUS
(Jan. 20 to Feb. 18)
Today the Moon is in your sign,
playing nicely with Saturn. This is
why you are willing to accept your
duties and obligations. It also is why
you want to do things in a practical,
orderly way.
PISCES
(Feb. 19 to March 20)
Any work that you do behind the
scenes today will be productive.
Consider it practical preparation for
what is to come later.
YOU BORN TODAY You are gentle,
compassionate and very intuitive.
You like a peaceful environment. You
also like to be able to work with your
imagination. A new nine-year cycle is
now starting for you; and this will
open up many possibilities. You
might start a new business activity or
change residences. Open any door,
because your future is in your hands.
Birthdate of: Eugenie Bouchard,
tennis player; George Harrison, musician; Nancy O’Dell, TV host.
The Recorder, Amsterdam, N.Y.
SPORTS
Friday, February 24, 2017 / 17
LaJoie uses wreck,
Johnson pitch to land
spot in Daytona 500
The Associated Press
Joey Logano celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Clash auto race Sunday at
Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla.
Logano looking for second Daytona
500 win; charity close to his heart
By JOHN ALTAVILLA
The Hartford Courant
One of the ways auto racing distinguishes itself from other major
sports is that it holds its signature
event at the beginning of the season and not the end.
Yes, there has been the Chase
for the Championship — this
year NASCAR is calling it the
playoffs — that decides the
NASCAR champion, but the
Daytona 500 rolls around in winter, an appetizer that helps build
momentum and excitement for
the upcoming campaign.
“There are some very intense
moments during the week, but
there are relaxing moments as
well,” Joey Logano said
Wednesday. “You have meetings
and media day and it’s a crazy
couple of weeks in many ways.
But the biggest moment comes at
the end, with the race, the thing
we’ve been preparing for since
we arrived.”
This year’s race is Sunday at
Daytona International Speedway,
and Logano, the pride of
Middletown, Conn., will be there
in hopes of getting the 2017 season off to a memorable start, like
he did in 2015, when he won.
“It’s a definitely a different vibe
than any other place,” Logano
said. “It’s great to win anywhere,
but the Daytona 500 is the
Daytona 500. It’s such a big deal
to go out there and win this race.
It’s the biggest one of the year for
us. And after winning it once,
you get the feel for it and it
makes you want to win it again.”
Logano is a 17-time winner in
the Monster Energy NASCAR
Cup Series and has 14 wins in the
last three years, which is tied
with Jimmy Johnson among
active drivers in that span.
During his career he has won 17
Hamlin
pole positions and has finished in
the top five 81 times.
Logano also has advanced to
the championship final at
Homestead-Miami Speedway
twice in the last three seasons and
finished second in the standings
in 2016.
He drives for Team Penske,
winners of six of the last nine
restrictor plate races. The team
won three of four plate races in
2016; Logano won the chase race
at Talladega and finished in the
top five in the last race at
Daytona.
“I wouldn’t say winning the
Daytona 500 changed my life
dramatically, but it was a gamechanger for a while,” Logano
said. “Look, you don’t want to be
someone who trips over your
press clippings. Roger Penske
always tells us it’s great to win it,
but you’ve got to come out and
win again next week. The feeling
doesn’t last forever. It just makes
you want to win it again and
again.”
What Logano remembers most
of all about winning the Daytona
500 is a gift he received from
Mario Andretti.
“The coolest thing that happened to me, hands down, was I
got a picture from Mario Andretti
of when he won the race and it
said, ‘Finally, another Italian won
the Daytona 500.’ ” Logano said.
“He signed it, I have it framed,
and I have it right next to my trophy. It’s Mario Andretti. It’s
something I will also cherish and
keep.”
Logano comes to this Daytona
500 already familiar with the
winner’s circle this season. He
won the Advance Auto Parts
Clash at Daytona on Saturday,
the 75-lap exhibition at Daytona
International Speedway that
kicked off the 2017 Monster
Energy Cup series.
On the last lap of the race,
leader Denny Hamlin attempted
to block Brad Keselowski but
ended up making contact and losing control, which allowed
Logano and his No. 22 Team
Penske Ford to win the Clash for
the first time.
“It was very important to win
that race,” Logano said. “To get a
victory right off the bat is a big
momentum builder for the race
team. Also, it helps knock some
of the rust off after sitting around
for three months. It gets us back
in the rhythm. It gets you whole
team back in the rhythm.”
What’s at stake now for Logano
would be the another Daytona
win for the Penske team, which
has two victories in the last eight
races, the 50th anniversary race
(Ryan Newman) in 2008 and
Logano’s win in 2015 when he
was 24 years old, the second
youngest to win it, behind Trevor
Bayne. Only 11 drivers have won
the race more than once.
“It’s not easy to do, that’s for
sure” said Logano, who will be
27 in May. “What worked last
year or the year before isn’t going
to work this year. It all keeps
changing. But I look forward to
the challenge every year and I
feel like we’ve got a great shot,
as good as ever to make it happen
again this year. We’ll take it one
step at a time and hopefully
everything works out.”
What’s also close to Logano’s
heart is the Joey Logano
Foundation, which started in
2013 with a mission is to inspire
and assemble the NASCAR community to assist those in need of a
second chance due to natural or
human disaster. The foundation is
hosting its fourth annual charity
golf tournament, auction and dinner in Connecticut July 12-13.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP)
— Corey LaJoie’s pitch to BK
Racing for a ride in the Daytona
500 was going nowhere.
LaJoie texted a friend — just
seven-time NASCAR champion
Jimmie Johnson — to help give
his cause a needed boost.
Johnson was happy to put in a
good word and called the decision-makers at BK Racing to
lobby on LaJoie’s behalf.
Imagine that, the champ’s call
carried some weight.
“Two days later, the call came
to me,” LaJoie said. “Hey, this is
the call you’ve been waiting for.
Let’s go.”
LaJoie is now ready to go race
Sunday in the Daytona 500.
LaJoie earned one of the open
positions in “The Great
American Race,” but it came
with controversy. He ran into the
back of Reed Sorenson, one of
the drivers he was racing for a
slot in the 500. It caused
Sorenson to wreck.
“I know it looked like I meant
to do it but I didn’t,” LaJoie said
over his radio. “I was running the
middle and he came down on
me.”
He would have preferred not to
have wrecked Sorenson, but
noted the race was his first time
in a Cup car at a restrictor-plate
track.
The 25-year-old LaJoie will
drive the No. 83 Toyota in only
his third career Cup start and first
since 2014. He’s the son of Randy
LaJoie, a two-time champion in
NASCAR’s second-tier series.
“I know I can do it in the right
opportunity,” Corey LaJoie said.
He tagged along as a kid with
his dad to Daytona, though he
found navigating the infield
trickier than the track.
“I didn’t even know where to
go for the drivers meeting or
nothing,” he said. “But it’s pretty
cool being here as a Cup driver
making my first Daytona 500.”
BK Racing was the surprise of
last year’s Daytona 500 when it
placed four cars in the starting
lineup. LaJoie and Joey Gase are
in the 40-car field Sunday. BK
Racing President Ron Devine has
a history of giving younger drivers a chance.
LaJoie proved BK — and
Johnson — made the right call.
“It’s still only part time,”
LaJoie said. “BK is working hard
to try to sell sponsorship to fill
more races, but right now all I
care about is Sunday.”
He wasn’t going to let anything
stand in his way of making
NASCAR’s signature race.
“I didn’t want to be sipping
margaritas on the beach on
Sunday. I wanted to be out there
racing,” LaJoie said. “If that was
my mom, I would probably spin
her out to make the Daytona 500,
too. That’s just frank. I’m sure
I’m not going to be on Reed’s
Christmas card list this year, but
that’s all right.”
Sorenson was not pleased.
“I guess he felt like he did what
he had to do to make the race,”
Sorenson said. “I hope he’s proud
of that part of it. There’s a lot of
pressure going in to making this
race. It’s a very big deal for a
small team like ours.”
Here are some things learned
Thursday night at the pair of 150mile qualifying races at Daytona
International Speedway:
CHASE FORMAT: Chase
Elliott already had the top starting spot the Daytona 500. But
Elliott, who fell short time and
again during last year’s rookie
season to secure a win, wanted a
trophy. He got it by earning the
first of the two races.
“I know this was just a Duel
win, and doesn’t mean a lot for
the playoffs, but it still means
something to me,” Elliott said.
PAY DIRT: Denny Hamlin
charged past Dale Earnhardt Jr.
with one lap remaining to win the
second 150-mile qualifying race.
Hamlin had his contract extension with Joe Gibbs Racing
announced hours before the race.
DAYTONA, EH: Canadian
driver D.J. Kennington earned
the final transfer spot and will
race Sunday in the No. 96 Toyota
for Gaunt Brothers Racing.
“The hard part’s over. We can
go have some fun now,” said
Kennington, the first Canadian to
make the Daytona 500 field since
Trevor Boys in 1988.
Sorenson and Timmy Hill did
not qualify for the race.
BACK OF THE PACK:
Johnson’s No. 48 Chevrolet suffered right-side damage and he
will be forced to start the
Daytona 500 in the rear of the
field in his backup car.
POINTS COUNT: This was the
first time NASCAR awarded
points for an exhibition race, but
most drivers didn’t think the reward
had any effect on the racing.
Under a new format for this
season, races are split into segments and in Thursday night’s
Duel’s, points were awarded 10to-1 for the top 10 finishers in
each race.
“I would say that everyone
raced as hard as they could. I
did,” said Jamie McMurray, who
finished second in the first race.
“I think any time we get in the
cars, you start driving, you race
as hard as you can.”
Kevin Harvick finished third
and said earning points had never
crossed his mind.
“I forgot about that,” he said.
“So we got some points, and
that’s a good thing.”
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in his career. The twin 150-mile races are
used to set the field for Sunday’s seasonopener, and Hamlin got this win on the
same day he announced a contract extension with Joe Gibbs Racing and sponsor
FedEx.
Chase Elliott won the first qualifier, but he
had already earned the top starting spot for
Sunday’s race based on speed. He and
Hendrick Motorsports teammate Earnhardt
will start on the front row in “The Great
American Race.”
There were two open slots for the Daytona
500 and they were claimed by Corey LaJoie
and Canadian driver D.J. Kennington.
LaJoie had the harder road to race into the
Daytona 500.
He ran into the back of Reed Sorenson,
one of the drivers he was racing for the slot
in the 500. It caused Sorenson to wreck.
“I know it looked like I meant to do it but
I didn’t,” LaJoie said on his radio. “I was
running the middle and he came down on
me.”
He said he would have preferred not to
have wrecked Sorenson, but insisted it was
unintentional and noted the race was his first
time in a Cup car at a plate track. LaJoie had
to politic through December to get this ride,
but still asked Jimmie Johnson to put in a
good word for him to help him get a chance
to race in the Daytona 500.
So, he wasn’t going to let anything stand in
his way of making Sunday’s race.
“I didn’t want to be sipping margaritas on
the beach on Sunday. I wanted to be out
there racing,” LaJoie said. “If that was my
mom, I would probably spin her out to make
the Daytona 500, too. That’s just frank. I’m
sure I’m not going to be on Reed’s
Christmas card list this year, but that’s all
right.”
Sorenson was not pleased.
“I guess he felt like he did what he had to
do to make the race,” Sorenson said. “I hope
he’s proud of that part of it. There’s a lot of
pressure going in to making this race. It’s a
very big deal for a small team like ours.”
Elliott, meanwhile, was thrilled with his
first Cup victory.
“I know this was just a Duel win, and
doesn’t mean a lot for the playoffs, but it still
means something to me,” said Elliott.
Indeed, this was technically just an exhibition race. But new rules for this season
earned Elliott 10 points with the win.
NASCAR’s new format this year including
a provision that awards points on a 10-to-1
declining scale to the top-10 finishers in
Thursday night’s races.
18 / Friday, February 24, 2017
SPORTS
The Recorder, Amsterdam, N.Y.
Wesley Bryan, Cody Gribble share lead at Honda
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP)
— One reason Martin Kaymer enjoys the
Honda Classic is because he doesn’t feel
as though he has to make a bunch of
birdies.
On such a serene Thursday at PGA
National, that was required to keep pace.
A pair of PGA Tour rookies who last
played this course at Q-school for the
Web.com Tour, Cody Gribble and Wesley
Bryan, each opened with a 6-under 64 in
the morning and it stood the rest of the day.
The wind never really materialized. The
greens remained soft from a big rain the
day before.
More than half of the field was at par or
better.
Kaymer, a two-time major champion
from Germany playing on a sponsor
exemption, chipped in from behind the
17th green for birdie and closed with a
two-putt birdie from 40 feet for a 65. He
was one shot behind, along with Anirban
Lahiri of India.
“I felt very calm over the ball,” Kaymer
said. “I enjoy the golf course. When you
stand on the first tee, you don’t feel like
you need to make five or six birdies. It’s a
ball-striking golf course, but even level par
or 1-over par is a very good round.
“It was very soft and there was not much
wind,” he said. “Once you miss the fairway, it was actually OK from the rough
because the greens are soft. I’ve not played
the golf course in easier conditions.”
Rickie Fowler and Ian Poulter found it
the same way. They were part of a large
group at 66. Sergio Garcia was headed in
that direction until he pulled his tee shot
left on the par-3 fifth hole and made double bogey, added a pair of other bogeys
and recovered with a birdie on his final
hole for a 68. He was in the group with
defending champion Adam Scott.
“If the weather stays good and it’s able to
dry out, I don’t see the golf course getting
any easier,” Fowler said.
It was an important start for Poulter, who is
playing on a medical extension from a foot
injury last year and has only six PGA Tour
The Associated Press
Wesley Bryan acknowledges the crowd after putting on the eighth hole Thursday
during the first round of the Honda Classic golf tournament, Thursday in Palm
Beach Gardens, Fla.
events left to earn either $220,301 or 154
FedEx Cup points to retain his full status.
“I’m on borrowed time,” said Poulter,
who has slipped to No. 206 in the world.
“A win would be nice. I have to think that
I’ve got a chance, I really do. The situation
I’m in, I have to be aggressive, but I’ve got
to be careful. I can’t make many mistakes.”
Tomorrow’s weather
Forecast for Saturday, February 25, 2017
CANADA
Watertown
61/26
Toronto
49/23
Rochester
58/27
Syracuse
62/28
Lake Placid
58/24
VT.
N.H.
Albany
62/32
Binghamton
56/25
Buffalo
55/26
MASS.
New York
64/38
PA.
Montauk
52/38
Mohawk Valley forecast
Today: A slight chance of showers between 3 and 4
p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 64. A slight chance
of showers after 11 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a low
around 51.
Saturday: A slight chance of showers, then rain and
possibly a thunderstorm after 1 p.m. High near 61.
Southeast wind 9 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 24
mph. Chance of precipitation is 100 percent.
Saturday night: Chance of rain and snow showers
between 1 and 4 a.m., then a chance of snow showers
after 4 a.m. Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly
cloudy, with a low around 29.
Sunday: A slight chance of rain and snow showers.
Partly sunny, with a high near 38. Breezy, with a west
wind 15 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 37 mph.
Sunday night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 26.
Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 45.
Monday night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 28.
Moon
phases
First
March 5
Full
March 12
Last
March 20
New
Feb. 26
Bryan is coming off his best tournament,
a tie for fourth at Riviera in which he got
within two shots of Dustin Johnson toward
the end of the third round. It took him
awhile to get going in warm, calm weather, and he finished with a 30 on the front
nine.
Gribble already has won this season at
the Sanderson Farms Championship last
fall while the top players were in
Shanghai. He missed four straight cuts on
the West Coast and finally got his swing
back to where he wants it. Along with
birdies on three of the par 3s, he hit all 18
greens in regulation.
Bryan, still more known for the trickshot videos he makes with his brother, can
feel his confidence starting to grow.
And it helped to be on familiar turf.
“I think the comfort out here this week ...
yeah, I got into some pretty good form, but
out here on the golf course, I got through
Q-school just about 14 months ago, and
it’s a place that I’m comfortable at and a
golf course I know,” he said.
He picked up a rare birdie on the sixth
hole, one of two that have been converted
from par 5s to par 4s for the Honda
Classic, followed that with a 12-foot par
save and then a 10-foot birdie on No. 8 to
join Gribble in the lead.
Gribble’s PGA Tour journey started a
year earlier than Bryan’s. He tied for
eighth at Q-school in December 2014 to
get onto the Web.com Tour. He did well
enough in the final event to earn his card,
and a month later he was a PGA Tour winner.
“This is one of the tournaments I like to
play,” Gribble said. “I played it well in Qschool a couple years ago. I’ve got some
good memories.”
There weren’t a lot of good memories
over the last month, missing the cut in
three straight events starting with the
Phoenix Open. But the Texan has been
grinding away with his coach the last few
weeks and it’s starting to take hold.
“We both know exactly how we want the
ball to come out. We want less curve. I
tend to draw it too much,” Gribble said. “I
know we wanted more a cut swing, but
kind of finally ... it’s hard to explain. It
clicked today, but it could be lost again
tomorrow. You never know. It was a great
start, and hopefully I can build on it.”
It helped to have a birdie putt on every
hole. His lone bogey was a long three-putt
on the 16th hole.
The Recorder, Amsterdam, N.Y.
SPORTS
Friday, February 24, 2017 / 19
F-MCC men outlast MVCC in overtime, 84-80
JOHNSTOWN — Nigel Hemingway led
five players in double figures with 19 points
and also grabbed nine rebounds as the FultonMontgomery Community College team
pulled out an 84-80 overtime win Thursday
against Mohawk Valley Community College.
Kerome Grant added 14 points for the
Raiders, who also got 12 points from Ricardo
Santiago and 11 points apiece from Brandon
Cooper and Dante Morgan. Saquan Goland
had a big game on the inside with 13
rebounds and seven blocked shots.
Marquis Gilbert scored 19 points, Jarell
Cowell scored 12, Isaiah Brinkley finished
with 11 points and Jason Puello scored 10 to
lead MVCC.
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Mohawk Valley CC 62,
Fulton-Montgomery CC 59
Cheyenne Clark had a monster game with
29 points and 20 rebounds as MVCC
outscored F-MCC 22-16 in the fourth quarter
to pull out the win.
The Hawks also got 17 points, seven
rebounds and four blocks from Kadijah Jones
and an eight-point, eight-rebound effort from
Tiffany Jackson.
Moet Jenkins scored 13 points and My’eesa
Grant finished with 12 points, 16 rebounds
and four blocks to lead the Lady Raiders.
Kaina Martinez added 11 points and Rylie
Smith scored 10 for F-MCC, but the team
shot just 21-of-65 from the field, 2-of-10
from 3-point range and 15-of-28 at the free
throw line.
— Staff report
AREA SPORTS
CALENDAR
TODAY
BOYS BASKETBALL
Section II Playoffs
Class B
Broadalbin-Perth vs.
Voorheesville, at
Shenendehowa HS, 5 p.m.
Class C
Canajoharie vs. Granville,
at Hudson Valley CC, 5 p.m.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Section II Playoffs
Class D
Northville at Heatly, 7:30 p.m.
OESJ at North Warren, 7:30
p.m.
WRESTLING
NYSPHSAA
Championships, at Times
Union Center, 10 a.m.
SATURDAY
BOYS BASKETBALL
Section II Playoffs
Class D
OESJ vs. Whitehall, at
Stillwater HS, 1 p.m.
Northville vs. Germantown,
at Stillwater HS, 2:30 p.m.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Section II Playoffs
Class B
Fonda-Fultonville at Glens
Falls, 7:30 p.m.
WRESTLING
NYSPHSAA
Championships, at Times
Union Center, 10 a.m.
SUNDAY
BOYS BASKETBALL
Section II Playoffs
Class A
Amsterdam vs. Mohonasen,
at Hudson Valley CC, 1 p.m.
AREA SPORTS BRIEFS
Adam Shinder/Recorder staff
ABOVE LEFT: Amsterdam’s Giluiana Pritchard, left, and Lansingburgh’s Kalissa Genthner (14) fight for a rebound during a Section II
Class A girls basketball quarterfinal game Thursday at Amsterdam High School. ABOVE RIGHT: Amsterdam point guard Lucia Liverio
runs the floor
Lady Rams
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Adam Shinder/Recorder staff
Amsterdam’s Grace Catena drives to the basket during a Section
II Class A girls basketball quarterfinal game Thursday at
Amsterdam High School.
sixth-seeded Queensbury team that pulled off a 59-56 upset of No. 3
seed Mohonasen in the first game of Thursday’s doubleheader at AHS.
Though Lansingburgh’s tenacious full-court defense forced Amsterdam
into stretches of sloppy play, the Lady Rams took the lead for good when
Fedullo made it 24-23 with 2:01 left in the second quarter. Amsterdam
pushed the lead to double digits early in the third quarter and never let
the Lady Knights get closer than four points the rest of the night.
“We definitely worked hard. Shots weren’t falling, so we had to find
another way to make baskets,” Fedullo said.
Pritchard and Fedullo did the bulk of the scoring, but senior Grace
Catena — who got the start ahead of sophomore Elena Fedullo in
anticipation of Lansingburgh’s tough man-to-man defense — made a
major contribution by scoring all 10 of her points in the second half.
“Grace works very hard down low,” Nina Fedullo said. “We all do.
We work hard, share the ball. We played very well as a team tonight.”
Nylasia Sutton, coming off a 27-point performance on eight 3-pointers in Lansingburgh’s first-round win over South Glens Falls, scored
15 points Thursday before becoming one of three Knights (10-12) to
foul out in the fourth quarter.
Cassandra Bessette added 10 points for Lansingburgh, but Amsterdam
broke out a new defensive look — a 1-2-2 half-court trap with Nina
Fedullo using her considerable wingspan to wreak havoc at the top of
the key — that constantly keep the Knights’ backcourt off-balance.
“We’ve been saving that (defense) for sectionals,” Duemler said.
“They’re guards are good, but they’re small, so we wanted to take
them out of their rhythm.”
Amsterdam also controlled the glass, grabbing 44 rebounds —
including 18 on the offensive end. Those offensive boards and putback
opportunities were a major reason the Lady Rams were able to overcome a night where they knocked down just two shots from 3-point
range.
“Once our shots weren’t falling, the fact that we didn’t give up and
worked harder on the rebounds, driving, putbacks, that says a lot about
us,” Pritchard said.
Now, the Lady Rams will prepare for Tuesday’s semifinal against
Queensbury, with the winner advancing to the championship game
against the winner of the other semi between Averill Park and
Gloversville.
Amsterdam is hopeful of a second straight trip to the sectional final,
but is wary of a young and improving Queensbury team that knocked
off Mohonasen on Meghan O’Connor’s 3-pointer with five seconds
left in regulation. The Lady Rams beat the Spartans 63-34 when the
two teams met Dec. 19 at AHS.
“They definitely look better now than they did at the beginning of the
season,” Pritchard said. “We can’t take any team lightly.”
Contact ADAM SHINDER at
[email protected]
AGSA registration
set for Feb. 25
The Amsterdam Girls
Softball Association will be
holding in person sign-ups for
the 2017 at Amsterdam City
Hall on Saturday, Feb. 25
from 9 a.m. to noon.
Cost is $60 for one child,
$90 for two or $120 for three
or more. The league is open
to girls ages 5 to 18 residing
in Fulton or Montgomery
Counties. Mail and online
registration information can
be found by visiting the
AGSA website at www.amsterdamgirlssoftball.org.
AYBL registration
set for Saturday
Online registration for the
Amsterdam Youth Baseball
League is now open for the
2017 spring season.
To register log on to amsterdamyouthbaseball.org.
In-person registration for
children ages 4-12 as of May
1 is scheduled for Saturday
from 9 a.m. to noon. at
Amsterdam City Hall.
Cost is $70 for Majors and
Minors Division and $55 for
Rookie and T-Ball. The
league will be offering $20 in
raffle tickets to each child this
season. All proceeds for the
sale of the raffle tickets will
go to the child so a youngster
can play for $50 in Majors
and Minors and $35 for
Rookie and T-Ball.
Also, the league will hold a
general meeting on
Thursday, March 2 in
Common Council chambers
at City Hall at 7 p.m.
All coaches, assistant
coaches and volunteers
encourged to attend the general meeting.
Officers will meet before the
general meeting at 6 p.m.
20 / Friday, February 24, 2017
SPORTS
The Recorder, Amsterdam, N.Y.
The big names stay in place on NBA trade-deadline day
MIAMI (AP) — Paul George stayed put.
So did Jimmy Butler, Carmelo Anthony
and Derrick Rose.
And as the trade deadline passed
Thursday, the NBA landscape seemed
remarkably unchanged. In all, seven deadline-day trades were put together by the 3
p.m. Eastern deadline — but no lastminute blockbusters. All-Star DeMarcus
Cousins was traded to New Orleans by
Sacramento a few days earlier, yet every
trade that followed paled in comparison.
“You know where all those big dominoes
are? They’re still home, with the exception
of one,” Miami President Pat Riley said.
“I’m sure there were people that probably
made some pretty significant offers. ...
When you have that kind of player ... it
takes a lot to say, ‘OK, we’re going to let
this guy go.’ You stay with the sure thing
there.”
George remained with the Indiana
Pacers, even though the four-time All-Star
knew other teams sought his services.
Jimmy Butler stayed with the Chicago
Bulls, and the New York Knicks held onto
Rose and Anthony — the latter of whom
would have had to waive his no-trade
clause to make any deal occur anyway.
“I wasn’t concerned,” George said. “At
the end of the day, I’m in a good situation.
... I heard the rumors, different rumors, but
I can’t control what was going to happen
one way or another.”
The biggest moves of this trade season
came long before deadline day.
Toronto getting forward Serge Ibaka from
Orlando last week for Terrence Ross figures
to improve the Raptors’ chances in the
Eastern Conference, and Thursday’s move
to land P.J. Tucker from Phoenix gives them
another outstanding on-the-ball defender.
And the deal for Cousins that went down on
All-Star Sunday — in New Orleans, no less
— gives the Pelicans a frontline like no
other in the NBA with him now alongside
Anthony Davis. Plus, Cleveland snagged
Kyle Korver last month.
But contenders mostly stayed quiet
Thursday. An earlier agreed-upon trade of
note was officially completed, the one that
sent Lou Williams to Houston from the
Los Angeles Lakers and adds more serious
scoring to the Rockets’ bench.
Boston, currently No. 2 in the East, has
the right to swap picks with Brooklyn in
this year’s draft, and the Nets right now
would be favored to win the lottery and the
No. 1 pick — something the Celtics would
grab. Any big addition made Thursday
almost certainly would have cost the
Celtics that chance.
“It is a delicate balance of short-term
goals and long-term goals,” Boston general manager Danny Ainge said.
Perhaps the most interesting moves
Thursday were not trades at all. Dallas put
five-time All-Star point guard Deron
Williams on waivers, and a person briefed
on the situation told The Associated Press
that when Williams clears he plans to sign
with the Cleveland Cavaliers, which
would give LeBron James the extra playmaker he covets for the looming title
defense.
“Obviously we have a great deal of interest, and we’ve said it for a long time, in a
playmaker,” Cavaliers general manager
David Griffin said. “I won’t speak to specific names just because nobody’s free currently that’s out there for us to talk about.
But, obviously the need for a playmaker
still exists ... and we feel that we’ll be
competitive in that market for sure.”
Another notable player who may get to
choose his next spot is Andrew Bogut,
who was traded by Dallas to Philadelphia
— and figures to be a buyout candidate.
Bogut’s injury in last season’s NBA Finals
coincided with the start of Golden State’s
wasting of a 3-1 series lead against
Cleveland, and he’s still considered an
elite rim protector.
Of the players traded Thursday, only Roy
Hibbert — traded for the second time this
month, this time from Milwaukee to
Denver — has been an All-Star in the past.
Philadelphia kept Jahlil Okafor and
instead moved Nerlens Noel to Dallas as
part of the deal that sent Bogut to the
76ers.
The backlog of big men in Philadelphia
— Noel, Okafor, Joel Embiid, newly
acquired Tiago Splitter and No. 1 overall
pick Ben Simmons presumably at some
point — made it seem like moves were
going to happen, and Noel wound up being
the one to go.
“Gonna miss my best friend,” Embiid
said, “but I’m happy for him.”
So whether players stayed or went, when
3:01 p.m. arrived there was plenty of
exhaling around the league. The All-Star
break ended Thursday night, and now for
the most part everyone knows where
they’ll finish the season.
“We’re professionals,” said Minnesota
point guard Ricky Rubio, the subject of
many rumors in recent days. “But we’re
human beings, too. We have feelings.”
Curry flurry: MVP’s
huge third quarter
propels Warriors
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) —
Well-rested on fresh legs,
Stephen Curry found his 3-point
touch during one phenomenal
flurry in one game-breaking
quarter.
Draymond Green got hit with a
technical while walking away
and let his usual fire fly at coach
Steve Kerr in the aftermath. They
laughed about it later.
Kevin Durant brought some
postgame comedy — “I got a
couple of jokey jokes.” The
Golden State Warriors returned to
full strength and sure look poised
to play for the long haul.
Curry scored 17 of his 35 points
in a 3-point barrage over the final
3:37 of the third quarter, and the
two-time reigning MVP also had
seven rebounds, five assists and
four steals as the Warriors used a
big second half to beat the Clippers
123-113 on Thursday night.
“I’m not sure what needed to
happen but I know we took that
quarter over, and it was pretty
spectacular,” Green said. “It was
a fun night.”
Oh, and they have put up 400
points over the past three games
against Los Angeles.
Curry’s four-point play with
30.7 seconds left in the third and
buzzer-beating 3 to punctuate the
one-sided period propelled
Golden State. Curry and KD
combined for eight of their
team’s nine 3-pointers in the
third.
The Warriors scored 50 points
in the quarter after trailing 61-49
at halftime. It was the NBA’s first
50-point quarter since the Lakers
had 51 against the Knicks on
March 25, 2014.
“That’s a lot of points. Is that
the most we’ve had all season in
a quarter?” Klay Thompson said.
“Being down 12 was good for us
because it really pushed our focus
to be better.”
Durant scored 15 of his 25
points in the third and also contributed 15 rebounds and seven
assists as the NBA-best Warriors
(48-9) began the stretch run with
a downright dominant second
half.
Austin Rivers and Jamal
Crawford scored 19 points apiece
and DeAndre Jordan had 17 and
11 rebounds as the Clippers
missed Chris Paul for a 14th
straight game as he recovers from
surgery last month for a torn ligament in his left thumb. Los
Angeles had its four-game winning streak snapped.
“They amped up the pressure a
little bit and then we kind of fell
back a little bit, like, ‘All right,
let’s relax,’ instead of just play-
Knicks
The Associated Press
Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry, right, drives past Los
Angeles Clippers’ Blake Griffin during Thursday’s game in
Oakland, Calif.
ing,” Rivers said.
Thompson scored 18 points and
had his streak of eight straight
games scoring 20 or more points
snapped. It matched the longest
such streak of his career, also
done Dec. 2-16, 2014.
Golden State welcomed back
starting center Zaza Pachulia
after he missed eight games with
a right shoulder injury and backup big man David West, who
missed 14 games with a non-displaced fracture in his left thumb
Pachulia had three blocked
shots in five minutes of the first
quarter and finished with a
career-best four.
After the Clippers took a 14498 beating in their last visit to
Oracle Arena on Jan. 28, they
controlled the game for the first
two quarters. That 46-point win
matched the largest margin of
victory in the series.
So, how did Los Angeles feel
about facing the NBA’s best team
immediately out of the All-Star
break?
“I kind of like jumping back in,
personally,” Clippers coach Doc
Rivers said of starting with the
Warriors. “I did as a player. I
would rather get going.”
PAUL UPDATE
While Paul’s return Friday
against the Spurs was “iffy” in
Rivers’ mind, the point guard is
likely to be back in the next couple of games — with Sunday’s
home game against Charlotte
sounding like a real possibility.
Paul went through an intense
workout Thursday.
“He’s really close,” Rivers said.
“He looked good the last two
days but I thought he was a little
hesitant.”
Williams, Rockets spoil Cousins’ Pelicans debut
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Reserve Lou
Williams hit seven 3-pointers and scored 27
points in his Rockets debut after a trade from
the Lakers, and Houston crushed New
Orleans 129-99 on Thursday night in
DeMarcus Cousins’ first game with Anthony
Davis.
Davis had 29 points, and Cousins finished
with 27 points and 14 rebounds after he was
acquired from Sacramento during the break.
But New Orleans turned the ball over 20
times couldn’t keep pace with the firepower
of the Rockets, who hit 20 3-pointers.
Eric Gordon scored 19 points and Ryan
Anderson added 17 in both players’ first game
in New Orleans since leaving the Pelicans.
James Harden had 13 points and 14 assists.
Houston led by as many as 35 points when
Gordon’s free throws made it 100-65 late in
the third quarter.
PISTONS 114, HORNETS 108, OT
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) —
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope scored 33 points,
including three 3-pointers late in the fourth
quarter during a pulsating Detroit rally, and
the Pistons outlasted Charlotte.
Caldwell-Pope scored Detroit’s last 11
points of regulation, and his 3-pointer with
18.2 seconds to play tied the game at 100.
Kemba Walker scored Charlotte’s final nine
points of the fourth, but the Pistons forced
him to give up the ball on the last possession,
and Marco Belinelli missed a 3-pointer that
could have won it.
TRAIL BLAZERS 112, MAGIC 103
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Damian Lillard
scored 33 points, C.J. McCollum added 22
and Portland beat Orlando to snap a threegame losing streak.
After trailing for much of the game, the
Trail Blazers rallied in the fourth quarter
behind Lillard’s 17 points. Recently acquired
center Jusuf Nurkic also had 12 points and 12
rebounds during the much-needed win for the
Portland.
The Trail Blazers spoiled Terrence Ross’
debut with the Magic after being traded last
week for Serge Ibaka. Ross, who is supposed
to added athleticism and a scoring punch,
managed just 13 points on 4-of-17 shooting
with his new team.
KINGS 116, NUGGETS 100
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Willie
Cauley-Stein had a career-high 29 points and
10 rebounds to help Sacramento, playing for
the first time since trading DeMarcus
Cousins, beat Denver.
Newcomers Buddy Hield scored 16 points
and Tyreke Evans had 15 for the Kings,
Darren Collison had 15 points and 10 assists.
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Kyle Korver scored 20 points
for Cleveland, which is 8-1 in
February and has beaten New
York 10 straight times. The
defending NBA champions were
7-8 in January.
“We got back to playing our
type of basketball,” James said.
“I’ve always felt good about our
team, but it was just about the
way we were playing. I feel really good about the way we’re
playing right now.”
Courtney Lee had 25 points for
New York, which has lost six of
seven and is 12th in the Eastern
Conference playoff race.
Knicks forward Kristaps
Porzingis, the team’s secondleading scorer, left the game with
a sprained right ankle in the second quarter and didn’t return. He
left the arena in a walking boot
and will be re-examined Friday.
New York took an early lead in
the first game since the All-Star
break for both teams, but the
Cavaliers closed the first half on
a 25-8 run. Cleveland built the
lead to 72-51, but Anthony
scored eight points in the third
quarter and kept New York in the
game.
The Knicks trailed 87-79 entering the fourth, but the Cavaliers
quickly regained control. James
scored on two layups while
Korver and Channing Frye each
hit two 3-pointers, pushing the
lead to 110-91.
“The rest paid dividends for
us,” James said. “A couple of
possessions guys got a little tired
because we hadn’t played in a
week, but it was a good start for
us after the break.”
James, who had eight assists in
the fourth, also turned in two
outstanding defensive plays. He
swatted Rose’s layup attempt
into the courtside seats in the
second quarter and pinned Lee’s
breakaway drive against the
backboard in the fourth.
Rose, another subject of trade
rumors
as
the
deadline
approached, scored 13 points.
OAKLEY RETURNS
Former Knicks forward Charles
Oakley watched his former team
in his hometown. Oakley sat next
to Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert
in a front row seat adjacent to
Cleveland’s bench.
Oakley attended his first Knicks
game since being arrested after
getting into an altercation with
security guards at Madison
Square Garden earlier this month.
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SPORTS
Friday, February 24, 2017 / 21
Rangers outlast Leafs in shootout
TORONTO (AP) — Mika
Zibanejad helped the New York
Rangers continue their strong
play in February.
Zibanejad scored the shootout
winner and the New York
Rangers with a 2-1 victory over
the Toronto Maple Leafs on
Thursday night.
Henrik Lundqvist made 32
saves and J.T. Miller scored the
game-tying goal in the third period for the Rangers, who
improved to 8-1-1 this month.
New York moved into third
place in the Metropolitan
Division with 80 points.
“We were definitely playing the
right way,” Rangers coach Alain
Vigneault said.
“I thought we had a great first
period. Had a few Grade A
opportunities. Their goaltender
made some big saves.”
Connor Brown scored for
Toronto, which fell to 1-7 in
shootouts this season. Frederik
Andersen had a stellar performance in defeat with 37 saves.
The Leafs hold the third playoff
spot in the Atlantic Division (68
points), two points back of
Ottawa (70) and four back of
Montreal.
Lundqvist passed Chris Osgood
for sole possession of 11th place
on the NHL’s wins list with No.
402. In addition, Lundqvist is one
win away from tying Grant Fuhr
for 10th place.
In his past 14 appearances,
Lundqvist is 10-2-1 with a 1.91
goals-against average.
Struggling in the new year and
coming off an especially rough
start (and win) against Winnipeg
on Tuesday, Andersen was locked
in early.
“This is how I want to be playing,” Andersen said. “I know I
can play like this.”
After Auston Matthews turned
the puck over in the neutral zone,
Andersen was there to stop Rick
Nash, making a left pad save off
Brandon Pirri in transition and
then
shut
down
Mats
Zuccarello’s attempt in tight.
“It’s nice to make the first few
saves obviously, make you feel
the crowd is behind you,”
Andersen said. “The team knows
you’re feeling good and you start
playing well.”
Later, with the Leafs up 1-0 on
the 15th goal of the season by
Brown, Andersen came up with
the biggest of 14 first-period
saves, stretching to make a left
pad stop on former Leaf Michael
Grabner. Grabner had stolen the
puck with Toronto on a power
play, racing in to lead an odd-
The Associated Press
New York Rangers left wing J.T. Miller (10) scores the game-tying goal on Toronto Maple Leafs goalie
Frederik Andersen (31) during the third period of Thursday’s game in Toronto.
man Rangers rush.
The puck eventually found its
way to New York captain Ryan
McDonagh who fed Grabner
cross-ice to his right, his attempt
denied by the 27-year-old netminder.
“We need him to be good,”
Leafs coach Mike Babcock said
of Andersen before the game.
“We make mistakes so we need
him to be good.”
Andersen entered the game with
an .894 save percentage since
Jan. 1 and .913 overall on the season, his first with the Leafs.
New York was the better team
for the first 20 minutes, generating a number of scoring opportunities in transition while capitalizing on Toronto’s mistakes in the
defensive zone.
At one point, Toronto failed
with two chances to clear a puck,
leading to sustained offensive
zone time for the Rangers.
Brown, who got the opening
goal, was filling in for 19-yearold Mitch Marner (48 points)
alongside veterans James van
Riemsdyk and Tyler Bozak.
Marner was sitting out his fourth
consecutive game with an upperbody injury.
The Leafs had a scare late in the
first when No. 1 defenseman
Morgan Rielly showed some dis-
comfort after defending Jimmy
Vesey’s rush. Rielly exited for the
dressing room just before the
period was through, but returned
for the second and totaled almost
25 minutes.
Alexey Marchenko, picked up
off waivers from Detroit earlier
this month, logged just under 14
minutes in his Leafs debut.
Lundqvist kept New York within one early in the second when
he denied Matthews after a
Rangers neutral zone turnover.
“I knew after the first, after
(Andersen) made some big saves
— he looked on top of his game
— that it was going to be a tight
game and tough for us to score a
lot of goals,” Lundqvist said.
Andersen continued to shine at
the other end as the Leafs struggled to handle the Rangers attack,
which came into the night ranked
game in the NHL in goals pergame (3.32).
Of particular trouble for
Toronto was the line of
Zuccarello, Chris Kreider and
Zibanejad, the trio pushing 80
percent puck possession after 40
minutes while primarily going up
against the Leafs’ top matchup
line of Nazem Kadri, Leo
Komarov and Josh Leivo.
Even strength shot attempts
were 54-33 favoring the Rangers
after the second with a number of
those attempts coming in tight
around Andersen. New York had
also won 27 of 38 faceoffs at that
point.
The Leafs’ No. 1-ranked power
play generated next to nothing
with three opportunities.
The Rangers had a fine chance
to even the game at one near the
midway point of the third when
Zuccarello broke in alone on
Andersen only to be tripped up
by Nikita Zaitsev.
But New York managed to capitalize, Miller scoring just as the
ensuing power play expired. He
banged in Pirri’s shot that
bounced off the end-boards after
going wide of the net.
It was Miller’s 19th goal this
season, three off the career-high
22 he managed in 82 games last
season.
Rielly nearly put the Leafs back
in front in the waning minutes of
regulation only to have his shot
ring off the post.
Both goaltenders shined in the
overtime with Lundqvist stopping breakaways on both
Matthews and Komarov.
NOTES: New York leads the
NHL in road wins this season
with 20. ... The Rangers also lead
the NHL in third-period goals
this season with 82.
Bruins blast Kings 4-1, continue strong start for Cassidy
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Boston Bruins
figured their road swing against the NHL’s
three tough California teams would be a
strong indication of their ability to contend
for a playoff spot.
Interim coach Bruce Cassidy thinks the Bruins
are leaving the Golden State in great shape.
Brad Marchand and David Pastrnak scored
their 26th goals of the season, and the Bruins
improved to 5-1-0 under Cassidy with a 4-1
victory over the Los Angeles Kings on
Thursday night.
Anton Khudobin made 27 saves in his second
start since Christmas for the Bruins, who nursed
an early lead to their first win in Los Angeles
since March 24, 2012. The Bruins won two of
three in California, with a competitive loss to
Anaheim sandwiched between wins over the
Sharks and Kings.
“It’s not easy to do in this league, playing big,
heavy teams like this back-to-back,” said
Cassidy, who played under Kings coach Darryl
Sutter with the IHL’s Saginaw Hawks and
Indianapolis Ice from 1988-90. “We did what
we had to do. These are three tough buildings to
win in, and I know the Bruins have had their
struggles out here.”
Pastrnak punctuated a strong all-around game
with his seventh power-play goal of the season
early in the second period. Dominic Moore
ended his 26-game goal drought with an emptynet score, and David Krejci added another
empty-netter with 7.2 seconds left.
“This trip is a really good indicator of how we
match up against certain types of teams,”
Marchand said. “They play a really difficult
style of game ... and we responded to it really
well.”
Boston’s unbeaten start under Cassidy ended
one night earlier in Anaheim, but the Bruins
responded with another strong defensive game
in front of their backup goalie. Khudobin was
solid in just his ninth start of the season for the
Bruins, who have relied heavily on All-Star
Tuukka Rask in net.
“I got tired in the second, and (the Bruins)
picked it up for me,” Khudobin said. “And then
(Los Angeles) didn’t have many shots in the
third period. Perfect game for me.”
Kevin Gravel scored his first NHL goal and
Peter Budaj stopped 21 shots for the Kings, who
have lost six of eight. Los Angeles’ playoff
hopes have taken a hit during the rough stretch
including just five goals in its last four games.
“Can’t chase the lead,” Sutter said. “(Giving
up an) early goal is just a constant theme. Chase
the lead. Put some production on the top end of
your lineup to overcome that.”
The Kings have a home-heavy schedule down
the stretch, but they’ve lost seven of 11 at
Staples Center.
After Marchand put the Bruins ahead early on
a 2-on-1 rush, Gravel scored on a rebound of
rookie Adrian Kempe’s shot. Gravel’s goal was
the defenseman’s first of his 45-game career
with the Kings, who drafted him in the fifth
round in 2010.
“It was a long time coming on that one,”
Gravel said. “I had nothing but net to shoot at,
so I just basically tapped her in. Obviously, I
want that one to come in a win, but the first goal
is a special moment, for sure.”
Pastrnak reclaimed the lead for Boston early in
the second. He broke his stick on the one-timer,
but the changeup effect on the puck fooled
Budaj just enough. The 20-year-old Czech forward tied Patrice Bergeron for the team lead in
power-play goals.
NHL ROUNDUP
Islanders blank
Canadiens, 3-0
MONTREAL (AP) — Rookie
Anthony Beauvillier scored in
the first period, Thomas
Greiss made 24 saves, and
the New York Islanders beat
the Montreal Canadiens 3-0
Thursday night.
Anders Lee scored in the
second period and John
Tavares added an empty-netter in the final minute to seal
the Islanders’ third straight
win. New York has won the
first two games on a crucial
nine-game road swing and
improved to 12-4-2 since
interim coach Doug Weight
replaced the fired Jack
Capuano.
Josh Bailey and Brock
Nelson each had two assists,
and Greiss got his third
shutout of the season.
FLAMES 3, LIGHTNING 2
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Sean
Monahan scored his 100th
NHL goal, Brian Elliott made
23 saves, and Calgary kept
up its strong play.
Dougie Hamilton had a goal
and two assists, and Mikael
Backlund also scored to help
the Flames improve to 7-2-1
over their last 10 games.
Tampa Bay, which entered
with a seven-game points
streak (5-0-2), got goals
from Vladislav Namestnikov
and Nikita Kucherov. Andrei
Vasilevskiy stopped 22
shots.
After Blacklund scored 5:04
into the second, Monahan
put the Flames up 2-1 just
1:21 later on his 20th goal
this season.
PREDATORS 4,
AVALANCHE 2
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) —
Filip Forsberg scored his second straight hat trick, and
Nashville completed a sweep
of the five-game season
series with Central Divisionrival Colorado.
Forsberg, who now has a
team-high 22 goals, has five
goals combined in his last
two second periods.
Forsberg, who scored three
times in the second period of
Tuesday night’s overtime loss
to Calgary, got the hat trick
with an empty-net goal with
36.5 seconds left.
Viktor Arvidsson also scored
a goal, and Roman Josi and
Ryan Johansen each added
two assists as Nashville won
its fifth and final game
against Colorado this season.
Goalie Pekka Rinne made
20 saves for the win after
being pulled Tuesday night.
BLACKHAWKS 6,
COYOTES 3
CHICAGO (AP) — Patrick
Kane scored three goals for
his third career hat trick to
lead Chicago to its third
straight win and eighth in
nine games.
Kane has 23 goals to lead
the Blackhawks, who closed
three points behind first-place
Minnesota in the Central
Division and Western
Conference.
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MLB players union head says 2020 Olympics difficult
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — The head of
the Major League Baseball Players
Association says it will be difficult for big
leaguers to participate at the 2020 Tokyo
Olympics.
Baseball returns to Olympics after a 12year absence for the Tokyo Games, which
are scheduled for July 24-Aug. 9 — in the
middle of baseball’s season.
“There are challenges with the schedule,
and there are challenges with major leaguers being involved,” Clark said
Thursday at the Baltimore Orioles’ spring
training camp.
In 2008, players on major league 25-man
rosters and disabled lists on June 26 were
ineligible to play. The U.S. roster included 17
players from Triple-A, seven from Double-A
and college pitcher Stephen Strasburg, now
with the Washington Nationals.
“It doesn’t mean that we are not continuing to have dialogue. We have going back.
We will going forward. Where we land, I
don’t know,” Clark said. “One of the things
we were able to discuss during this round of
bargaining were some additional flexibility
in the schedule moving forward. Maybe
there are some opportunities for a broader
discussion than there have been a year ago.
We’ll have to wait and see. We haven’t had
that kind of substantive sit down yet.”
Many players are preparing for the fourth
edition of World Baseball Classic, an international tournament launched in 2006 that
is co-owned by Major League Baseball
and the union. Clark hopes to see a fifth
edition in 2021.
“I see no reason at this point why it
wouldn’t,” he said. “I’m hopeful it continues, understanding that the world we live
in four years from now may be different
from the one we’re in now.”
On another international topic, Clark felt
Tampa Bay’s exhibition at Havana last
spring was a positive experience. The
Rays were the first major league team to
play in Cuba since Baltimore in 1999.
“The feedback that we got was that it was
an experience that they’re not soon going
to forget,” he said. “We also appreciate
that the world we were in last year is a little bit different now. We have to determine
what any or all international travel looks
like as a result. There’s no doubt the
respect for the game internationally is
growing and trying to do our best to broaden our footprint makes sense as well,”
Clark said.
The union has agreed to pitchless intentional walks this season and talks are
ongoing on video review regulations.
“Instant replay is another one that some of
the details we’re still working through,”
Clark said. “We’re continuing to have dialogue and we’ll continue to have open dialogue on some of the things in the near term
as well as some things in the long term.”
Clark believes players are sensitive to
MLB’s concern that games are too long —
the average for nine-inning games was 3
hours last year.
“I think there’s an understanding as to
game length, and there’s an appreciation
for game pace,” Clark said. “In our game
more than any other, it’s hard to dictate a
particular game-time ending.”
Yankees’ Ellsbury
must start earning
his $21M salary
By DAVID LENNON
Newsday
The Associated Press
New York Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia during a spring training baseball workout Feb. 14 in Tampa, Fla.
Yanks’ Sabathia thinking
about 2018 and beyond
By BOB KLAPISCH
The Record (Hackensack, N.J.)
TAMPA, Fla. — It amuses CC
Sabathia to hear he’s running out
the clock on his career, just taking
up roster-space and $25 million the
Yankees are itching to spend elsewhere. Make no mistake — the
Yankees love the big man, but
everyone around the game
assumes the countdown has begun.
This is news to Sabathia, 36, who
has no intention of retiring after
2017. His contract is expiring but
says, “as long as I’m healthy” he’ll
be pitching next year, even if it’s
not for the Bombers.
“I realize this is a business,
man, whatever happens, happens,” is what Sabathia was saying one morning this week.
There’s no defiance in his voice,
no hint of a Take-That or I’llShow-You vibe. The left-hander
just disagrees with the unspoken
belief that it’ll soon be time to
move on.
There are three reasons why.
His right knee: Sabathia says it
couldn’t be better. He’s running
on the treadmill, participating in
pitchers’ drills and working off
the mound without pain. That’s
practically a miracle considering
he has no cartilage left.
Sabathia’s joints are in bone-onbone crisis, but are holding up.
His fastball: It’s diminished
but still highly effective now
that it’s been coupled with a cutter and change-up. Few pitchers
have made the transition from
pure power to finesse as seamlessly as Sabathia.
His lifestyle: Sabathia has battled alcoholism to a standoff,
staying sober 24 hours at a time.
He is rarely alone in spring training or on the road anymore —
that’s when he’d surrender to the
urge to drink. Sabathia’s was an
inverted disease, since for many
alcohol abuse starts with buddies
in a bar and goes nuclear from
there.
Today the veteran spends his
free hours with family or friends,
“just hanging out, watching
sports or playing video games,”
he said.
One look at Sabathia suggests a
life that’s indeed cleaner and
more honest than it was in 2015.
Those were the dark days; he told
the Yankees he couldn’t pitch in
the wild-card shootout against
the Astros because booze had
swallowed up his life.
Sabathia was sick of being
drunk, sick of being hung over,
sick of lying about the never-ending cycle. Instead of helping the
Yankees get to the division
series, he retreated to rehab. The
decision made no sense to anyone who knew Sabathia, the warrior. But it was the only logical
path for Sabathia, the alcoholic.
He returned to the Yankees
last spring completely sober for
the first time since 2012. That’s
all the Bombers wanted for that
big
bear
—
happiness.
Whatever happened on the field
would be a bonus. Much to their
surprise, Sabathia delivered,
pitching to a respectable 3.91
ERA last year. His 1.319 WHIP,
while not great, was the lowest
it’d been since 2012.
Understand this about Sabathia:
he’s turned into an illusionist on
the mound. His fastball, down to
89.4-mph last year according to
Fangraphs, has never been slower. Watch him from the stands or
on TV and it appears he’s serving
up one meatball after another.
Yet, the line-drive rate against
Sabathia dropped to its lowest
level since 2010.
Sabathia has succeeded because
he’s traded in his ego for outs.
He’s lost a full 10-mph from
prime-era fastball, enough to
depress any former power pitcher. It’s a not so subtle reminder to
Sabathia that he’s aging (37 in
July) and that almost 3300 career
innings have taken their revenge
on his arm.
Yet, Sabathia survives with precision on the corners and a nearperfect sequencing of his pitches.
“It shows you what kind of athlete CC is, how smart he is,” said
Dellin Betances. “Me? I don’t
know if I could pitch at 88-90
mph like he does. It’s pretty
amazing if you think about it.”
I raised the same question to
Aroldis Chapman, asking if he
could subtract 10-12 mpg from
his four-seamer and still get by.
We both knew the answer. The
Indians, after all, lit up the Cuban
reliever when he lost a mere 4mph in Game 7 of the World
Series last October.
If Chapman was vulnerable at
97-mph, could he possibly survive at 88? “Yes, I could do it,
I’m sure of it.” And then the closer laughed.
TAMPA, Fla. — Back in 2011,
the season Jacoby Ellsbury finished runner-up to Justin
Verlander for the American
League MVP, he was a first-year
arbitration player earning $2.4
million from the Red Sox.
Ellsbury batted .321 with 32
home runs and a .928 OPS, a
stat line that now looks like an
egregious misprint on his
resume, as useful as it was two
years later to get him a sevenyear, $153 million contract from
the Yankees.
Since that dark day Ellsbury’s
pen was put to paper, he’s produced a slash line of
.264/.326/.382 for the tidy annual sum of $21 million, the same
amount Alex Rodriguez is being
paid to be a spring-training
instructor and special adviser to
Hal Steinbrenner.
If A-Rod is as valuable a mentor as Steinbrenner claims, and
can help develop Gleyber
Torres, Jorge Mateo and Clint
Frazier into All-Stars, we dare
say he’s a better buy than the
underachieving Ellsbury, who’s
been behaving like a Boston
double-agent.
It’s supposed to work in
reverse. Wade Boggs, Roger
Clemens, Johnny Damon. Each
one changed their Sox for pinstripes and won a ring, thereby
cementing favored-son status in
the Bronx. While Ellsbury doesn’t deserve all the blame for the
Yankees’ recent downturn, he
makes a convenient scapegoat
for the discontent. And when the
front office starts making noise
about wanting more bang for its
buck — as Brian Cashman mentioned last week — it’s safe to
say Ellsbury is wearing a target
on his back heading into the
2017 season.
Not that he’s going anywhere.
Ellsbury is signed through 2020,
has a full no-trade clause, and
still is guaranteed $89 million
(we’ll assume the Yankees will
pass on the 2021 option). If he
doesn’t pick it up a bit at the
plate, and get more aggressive
on the basepaths, the Bronx
could start feeling more toasty
for the centerfielder.
Good thing for Ellsbury he’s
the kind of guy that seems completely unfazed by it all. Or at
least gives that impression.
Ellsbury was a late arrival to
Steinbrenner Field this week
because of the birth of his
daughter, Crew, and spent roughly seven minutes Wednesday dispassionately swatting away
numerous variations of the
“underperforming” question.
If Ellsbury was disappointed,
or frustrated, or just felt plainold guilty about not playing up
to his past MVP-caliber potential, he didn’t express one ounce
of that. Despite the repeated
attempts at squeezing it out of
him. When told that Cashman
thought “there was more in the
tank” from him, Ellsbury barely
flinched.
“Last year, I hoped to have a
little bit better overall season, so
that’s how I look at it,” Ellsbury
said. “But yeah, just continue to
work hard, that’s all I can do.
You’re going to have seasons
where you’re a little better. Just
continue to put the time in.”
The one question that did seem
to tweak Ellsbury a smidge was
the idea of Joe Girardi moving
him down in the lineup, perhaps
even much lower than he’d consider comfortable, in the bottom
third. After three seasons of subpar Ellsbury, at a premium cost,
the Yankees’ decision makers
probably aren’t too concerned
about rattling him. And the notion
of getting dropped down appeared
to strike a nerve. Sort of.
“I’m going to talk to Joe first,”
Ellsbury said. “I haven’t talked
to Joe about that. Hadn’t really
thought about it yet. In the offseason, it’s about you working
on your skills and then coming
into camp. I’m sure Joe and I
will have a conversation at some
point.”
How does Ellsbury think that
chat is going to go? His .703
OPS last season ranked 48th
among the 54 outfielders with
enough qualifying plate appearances, and the 20 stolen bases in
148 games was a stunningly low
rate by his standards. Another
problem — Ellsbury isn’t getting
any younger. He’s 33, the age
when downward trends begin,
especially for players that rely on
their legs to impact a game. As
you might expect, Ellsbury
brushed aside the suggestion.
“I don’t even let that enter my
mind,” he said. “I still have
speed, still have explosiveness,
so that’s how I view it. I try not
to look at age. Just how the body
feels. And the body feels good.”
Great. That’s what the Yankees
are looking for. Now Ellsbury
just has to deliver what they’re
paying for.
The Recorder, Amsterdam, N.Y.
AUTO RACING
THE SCOREBOARD
Friday, February 24, 2017 / 23
BASKETBALL
HOCKEY
Daytona 500 lineup
NHL standings
Section II boys playoffs Section II girls playoffs
NBA standings
Race: Sunday, Feb. 26
At Daytona International Speedway
Daytona Beach, Fla.
Lap length: 2.5 miles
(Car number in parentheses)
1. (24) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet.
2. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr.,
Chevrolet.
3. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet.
4. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota.
5. (4) Kevin Harvick, Ford.
6. (14) Clint Bowyer, Ford.
7. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford.
8. (41) Kurt Busch, Ford.
9. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota.
10. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet.
11. (6) Trevor Bayne, Ford.
12. (10) Danica Patrick, Ford.
13. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford.
14. (31) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet.
15. (22) Joey Logano, Ford.
16. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet.
17. (72) Cole Whitt, Ford.
18. (13) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet.
19. (19) Daniel Suarez, Toyota.
20. (38) David Ragan, Ford.
21. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota.
22.
(95)
Michael
McDowell,
Chevrolet.
23. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford.
24. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet.
25. (32) Matt DiBenedetto, Ford.
26. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet.
27. (34) Landon Cassill, Ford.
28. (96) DJ Kennington, Toyota.
29 (23) Joey Gase, Toyota.
30. (15) Michael Waltrip, Toyota.
31. (83) Corey LaJoie, Toyota.
32.
(33)
Jeffrey
Earnhardt,
Chevrolet.
33. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet.
34. (77) Erik Jones, Toyota.
35. (78) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota.
36. (21) Ryan Blaney, Ford.
37. (37) Chris Buescher, Chevrolet.
38. (47) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet.
39.
(75)
Brendan
Gaughan,
Chevrolet.
40. (7) Elliott Sadler, Chevrolet.
Failed to Qualify
(55) Reed Sorenson
(51) Timmy Hill
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
GP W LOTPtsGF GA
Montreal
61 32 21 8 72 169 158
Ottawa
58 32 20 6 70 158 153
Toronto
60 28 20 12 68 187 179
Boston
61 31 24 6 68 166 162
Florida
59 28 21 10 66 152 166
Tampa Bay
60 27 25 8 62 166 170
Buffalo
60 26 24 10 62 147 168
Detroit
60 24 26 10 58 150 178
Metropolitan Division
GP W LOTPtsGF GA
Washington
59 40 12 7 87 199 127
Pittsburgh
59 37 14 8 82 207 166
N.Y. Rangers 60 39 19 2 80 200 156
Columbus
58 37 16 5 79 187 143
N.Y. Islanders 60 29 21 10 68 180 175
Philadelphia
60 28 25 7 63 155 183
New Jersey
60 25 25 10 60 139 172
Carolina
56 24 24 8 56 142 165
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
GP W LOTPtsGF GA
Minnesota
59 39 14 6 84 198 138
Chicago
61 38 18 5 81 183 157
St. Louis
60 31 24 5 67 170 173
Nashville
60 29 22 9 67 173 167
Winnipeg
63 28 29 6 62 184 199
Dallas
60 23 27 10 56 165 193
Colorado
59 16 40 3 35 116 196
Pacific Division
GP W LOTPtsGF GA
San Jose
60 35 18 7 77 166 144
Edmonton
61 33 20 8 74 176 159
Anaheim
62 32 20 10 74 161 157
Calgary
61 31 26 4 66 162 174
Los Angeles
60 29 27 4 62 146 150
Vancouver
60 26 28 6 58 142 172
Arizona
59 21 31 7 49 143 189
CLASS AA
FIRST ROUND
Feb. 21
No. 9 Green Tech 87, No. 8 Shaker 81
No. 4 Saratoga 75, No. 13 Niskayuna
46
No. 5 Schenectady 60, No. 12 CBA 53
No. 7 La Salle 76, No. 10 Guilderland
69 (OT)
No. 3 Bethlehem 91, No. 14 Catholic
Central 45
No. 11 Albany 49, No. 6 Troy 44
QUARTERFINALS
Feb. 25
at Hudson Valley CC
No.
5 Schenectady vs. No. 4
Saratoga, 2 p.m.
No. 11 Albany vs. No. 3 Bethlehem, 4
p.m.
No. 7 La Salle vs. No. 2
Shenendehowa, 5:30 p.m.
No. 9 Green Tech vs. No. 1 Colonie, 7
p.m.
SEMIFINALS
Feb. 28
at Glens Falls Civic Center, 6:30 and
8 p.m.
FINAL
March 4
at Glens Falls Civic Center, 8 p.m.
CLASS A
FIRST ROUND
Feb. 22
No. 9 Burnt Hills 72, No. 8
Gloversville 58
No. 7 Hudson Falls 91, No. 10 Bishop
Maginn 82 (OT)
No. 6 Queensbury 54, No. 11 South
Glens Falls 41
QUARTERFINALS
Feb. 26
at Hudson Valley CC
No. 5 Mohonasen vs. No. 4
Amsterdam, 1 p.m.
No. 6 Queensbury vs. No. 3 Averill
Park, 2:30 p.m.
No. 7 Hudson Falls vs. No. 2 ScotiaGlenville, 4:30 p.m.
No. 9 Burnt Hills vs. No. 1
Lansingburgh, 6 p.m.
SEMIFINALS
March 1
at Glens Falls Civic Center, 6:30 and
8 p.m.
FINAL
March 4
at Glens Falls Civic Center, 4 p.m.
CLASS B
PLAY-IN ROUND
Feb. 17
No. 16 Coxsackie-Athens 56, No. 17
Tamarac 37
No. 15 Johnstown 75, No. 18 Corinth 44
FIRST ROUND
Feb. 21
No. 1 Glens Falls 82, No. 16
Coxsackie-Athens 55
No. 8 Schalmont 64, No. 9 Watervliet
60
No. 4 Ichabod Crane 65, No. 13
Schuylerville 54
No. 5 Hudson 92, No. 12 Bishop
Gibbons 78
No. 2 Mekeel Christian 72, No. 15
Johnstown 50
No. 10 Catskill 59, No. 7 Hoosick Falls
52
No. 3 Voorheesville 54, No. 14 Ravena
40
No. 6 Broadalbin-Perth 55, No. 11
Cohoes 37
QUARTERFINALS
Feb. 24
at Hudson Valley CC
No. 5 Hudson vs. No. 4 Ichabod
Crane, 6:30 p.m.
No. 8 Schalmont vs. No. 1 Glens Falls,
8 p.m.
at Shenendehowa HS
No. 6. B-P vs. No. 3 Voorheesville, 5
p.m.
No. 10 Catskill vs. No. 2 Mekeel
Christian, 6:30 p.m.
SEMIFINALS
Feb. 27
at Glens Falls Civic Center, 6:30 and
8 p.m.
FINAL
March 3
at Glens Falls Civic Center, 7:45 p.m.
CLASS C
PLAY-IN ROUND
Feb. 17
No. 16 Middleburgh 75, No. 17
Rensselaer 54
No. 13 Cambridge 70, No. 20
Waterford 38
No. 12 Saratoga Catholic 68, No. 21
Galway 49
No. 14 Maple Hill 53, No. 19
Greenwich 46
No. 18 B-K-W 77, No. 15 Berlin 61
FIRST ROUND
Feb. 21
No. 1 Granville 92, No. 16
Middleburgh 63
No. 9 Canajoharie 50, No. 8 Hoosic
Valley 48 (OT)
No. 4 Lake George 65, No. 13
Cambridge 39
No. 5 Schoharie 69, No. 12 Saratoga
Catholic 63
No. 2 Stillwater 80, No. 18 B-K-W 64
No. 7 Duanesburg 79, No. 10 HadleyLuzerne 72
No. 14 Maple Hill 61, No. 3 Greenville
52
No. 11 Mechanicville 53, No. 6
Mayfield 47
QUARTERFINALS
Feb. 24
at Hudson Valley CC
No. 9 Canajoharie vs. No. 1 Granville,
5 p.m.
at Shenendehowa HS
No. 5 Schoharie vs. No. 4 Lake
George, 8 p.m.
Feb. 25
at Hudson Valley CC
No. 14 Maple Hill vs. No. 11
Mechanicville, 11 a.m.
No. 7 Duanesburg vs. No. 2 Stillwater,
12:30 p.m.
SEMIFINALS
March 2
at Glens Falls CC, 6 and 7:30 p.m.
FINAL
March 4
at Glens Falls CC, 2 p.m.
CLASS D
FIRST ROUND
Feb. 21
No. 5 OESJ 57, No. 12 Salem 26
Feb. 22
No. 9 Fort Edward 62, No. 8 Heatly 54
No. 7 North Warren 65, No. 10 New
Lebanon 61
No. 6 Northville 77, No. 11 Loudonville
Christian 45
QUARTERFINALS
Feb. 25
at Stillwater HS
No. 5 OESJ vs. No. 4 Whitehall, 1 p.m.
No.
6
Northville
vs.
No
3
Germantown, 2:30 p.m.
No. 7 North Warren vs. No. 2 Argyle,
4:30 p.m.
No. 9 Fort Edward vs. No. 1 Fort
Ann, 6 p.m.
SEMIFINALS
Feb. 27
at Glens Falls Civic Center
Top bracket semifinal, 5 p.m.
Feb. 28
at Glens Falls Civic Center
Bottom bracket semifinal, 5 p.m.
FINAL
March 3
at Glens Falls Civic Center, 6 p.m.
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W L Pct
GB
Boston
37 20 .649
—
Toronto
33 24 .579
4
New York
23 35 .397 14 1/2
Philadelphia
21 35 .375 15 1/2
Brooklyn
9 47 .161 27 1/2
Southeast Division
W L Pct
GB
Washington
34 21 .618
—
Atlanta
32 24 .571 2 1/2
Miami
25 32 .439
10
Charlotte
24 33 .421
11
Orlando
21 38 .356
15
Central Division
W L Pct
GB
Cleveland
40 16 .714
—
Indiana
29 28 .509 11 1/2
Chicago
28 29 .491 12 1/2
Detroit
28 30 .483
13
Milwaukee
25 30 .455 14 1/2
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W L Pct
GB
San Antonio
43 13 .768
—
Houston
41 18 .695 3 1/2
Memphis
34 24 .586
10
New Orleans
23 35 .397
21
Dallas
22 34 .393
21
Northwest Division
W L Pct
GB
Utah
35 22 .614
—
Oklahoma City 32 25 .561
3
Denver
25 32 .439
10
Portland
24 33 .421
11
Minnesota
22 35 .386
13
Pacific Division
W L Pct
GB
Golden State
48 9 .842
—
L.A. Clippers
35 22 .614
13
Sacramento
25 33 .431 23 1/2
L.A. Lakers
19 39 .328 29 1/2
Phoenix
18 39 .316
30
GOLF
PGA Honda Classic
Thursday
At PGA National
(Champions Course)
Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
Purse: $6.4 million
Yardage: 7,140; Par 70 (35-35)
First Round
Cody Gribble
31-33 —
Wesley Bryan
30-34 —
Martin Kaymer
31-34 —
Anirban Lahiri
33-32 —
Ben Crane
35-31 —
Graham DeLaet
31-35 —
Sean O’Hair
33-33 —
C.T. Pan
32-34 —
Rickie Fowler
33-33 —
Ryan Palmer
34-32 —
Ian Poulter
31-35 —
Ryan Blaum
34-33 —
Scott Stallings
36-31 —
Jhonattan Vegas
33-34 —
Jim Herman
31-36 —
Brian Harman
32-35 —
Kelly Kraft
34-33 —
Brandon Hagy
33-34 —
Jon Curran
32-35 —
Seung-Yul Noh
33-34 —
Marc Leishman
34-33 —
Blayne Barber
34-33 —
Joey Garber
35-32 —
Francesco Molinari
34-34 —
Tyrone Van Aswegen
34-34 —
Emiliano Grillo
34-34 —
Tyrrell Hatton
35-33 —
Sergio Garcia
36-32 —
Zach Johnson
34-34 —
Paul Casey
34-34 —
Brian Gay
32-36 —
Adam Scott
34-34 —
Russell Henley
36-32 —
Rafa Cabrera Bello
34-34 —
Morgan Hoffmann
34-34 —
Luke List
33-35 —
Billy Hurley III
35-33 —
Brian Stuard
36-32 —
John Peterson
34-34 —
Seamus Power
34-34 —
J.J. Spaun
37-31 —
Harold Varner III
35-34 —
Charles Howell III
36-33 —
William McGirt
35-34 —
Mackenzie Hughes
35-34 —
John Senden
34-35 —
Mark Wilson
34-35 —
Lucas Glover
37-32 —
Dominic Bozzelli
36-33 —
Sung Kang
34-35 —
Patton Kizzire
33-36 —
Si Woo Kim
35-34 —
Kevin Kisner
34-35 —
Stewart Cink
36-33 —
Luke Donald
34-35 —
Danny Lee
33-36 —
Hudson Swafford
34-35 —
Danny Willett
33-36 —
David Hearn
34-35 —
Daniel Summerhays
37-32 —
Johnson Wagner
35-34 —
J.T. Poston
36-33 —
Ollie Schniederjans
36-34 —
Cameron Tringale
35-35 —
Whee Kim
34-36 —
Alex Cejka
36-34 —
Greg Chalmers
35-35 —
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BOWLING
SCORES BY LEAGUE
Thursday Night Men’s Legue
Mike Miseno 279-781; Chris Kelly
279-707; Mark Altieri 248
Thursday Senior Mixed
Men
Jim Hayden 221-616; Bob Peeke 235614
Women
Bea Abraham 208-551; Monie Peeke
184-496
Wednesday Night Wildcats
Women
Tavia Hoover 197-533; Laurie
Schroeder 429; Kelly Rubscha 157
Men
Jay Schroeder 189-486; James
Meehan 170-417
Alley aces
MEN
Mike Miseno
279 266 236
Chris Kelly
213 279 215
Mike Meliosky
257 203 226
Mark Altieri
184 224 248
Steve Barhydt
249 192 199
Tom Taylor
220 239 181
Jeremy McGaffin 222 205 203
Stu Minch
211 179 232
Joe Bell
174 214 223
Dave Tollner
210 246 155
Jon Wolff
174 201 236
Bob Douglas
193 192 223
WOMEN
Tavia Hoover
197 157 179
SENIORS - MEN
Jim Hayden
185 210 221
Bob Peeke
154 225 235
Dick Jackson
201 184 191
Jim Frolke
192 175 174
Pete Bozek
160 175 191
Joe Vainauskas
156 213 154
SENIORS - WOMEN
Bea Abraham
208 174 169
Monie Peeke
184 159 153
Lee Zyskowski
170 135 161
Rose Schmidt
159 149 153
781
707
686
656
640
640
630
622
611
611
611
608
533
616
614
576
541
526
523
551
496
466
461
NOTE: Two points for a win, one
point for overtime loss.
Wednesday’s Games
Edmonton 4, Florida 3
Washington 4, Philadelphia 1
Anaheim 5, Boston 3
Thursday’s Games
N.Y. Islanders 3, Montreal 0
Calgary 3, Tampa Bay 2
N.Y. Rangers 2, Toronto 1, SO
Nashville 4, Colorado 2
Chicago 6, Arizona 3
Boston 4, Los Angeles 1
Today’s Games
Edmonton at Washington, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Florida, 7:30 p.m.
Ottawa at Carolina, 7:30 p.m.
Arizona at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Saturday’s Games
Anaheim at Los Angeles, 4 p.m.
N.Y. Rangers at New Jersey, 5 p.m.
N.Y. Islanders at Columbus, 5 p.m.
Washington at Nashville, 5 p.m.
Montreal at Toronto, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 8 p.m.
Buffalo at Colorado, 10 p.m.
San Jose at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Sunday’s Games
Boston at Dallas, 12:30 p.m.
Calgary at Carolina, 3 p.m.
Edmonton at Nashville, 5 p.m.
Columbus at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.
St. Louis at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.
Ottawa at Florida, 7:30 p.m.
Buffalo at Arizona, 8:30 p.m.
Rangers 2,
Maple Leafs 1 (SO)
N.Y. Rangers
0 0 1 0 — 2
Toronto
1 0 0 0 — 1
N.Y. Rangers won shootout 2-1.
First Period—1, Toronto, Brown 15
(Gardiner, Bozak), 10:56. Penalties—
Kreider, NYR, (hooking), 13:02.
Second Period—None. Penalties—
Gauthier,
TOR,
(interference),
11:34; Miller, NYR, (tripping), 19:20.
Third Period—2, N.Y. Rangers,
Miller 19 (Pirri, Hayes), 10:50.
Penalties—Nash, NYR, (tripping),
1:20; Zaitsev, TOR, (tripping), 8:48.
Overtime—None. Penalties—None.
Shootout—N.Y.
Rangers
2
(Zuccarello G, Zibanejad G), Toronto
1 (Nylander NG, Matthews G, Kadri
NG).
Shots on Goal—N.Y. Rangers 14-11-85—38. Toronto 9-9-13-2—33.
Power-play
opportunities—N.Y.
Rangers 0 of 2; Toronto 0 of 3.
Goalies—N.Y. Rangers, Lundqvist
28-14-2 (33 shots-32 saves). Toronto,
Andersen 24-13-11 (38-37).
A—19,175 (18,819). T—2:40.
Referees—Brad
Meier,
Kyle
Rehman.
Linesmen—Ryan
Galloway, Trent Knorr.
Bruins 4, Kings 1
Boston
1 1 2 — 4
Los Angeles
1 0 0 — 1
First Period—1, Boston, Marchand
26, 3:16. 2, Los Angeles, Gravel 1
(Kempe, Martinez), 18:12 (pp).
Penalties—Moore, BOS, (tripping),
16:44.
Second Period—3, Boston, Pastrnak
26 (Bergeron, Spooner), 4:43 (pp).
Penalties—Clifford, LA, (tripping),
3:19; Mcquaid, BOS, (interference),
5:29; Chara, BOS, (slashing), 15:31;
Marchand, BOS, (cross checking),
18:08; Mcnabb, LA, (cross checking),
18:08.
Third Period—4, Boston, Moore 9
(Mcquaid, Marchand), 18:58. 5,
Boston, Krejci 15 (Krug), 19:52.
Penalties—None.
Shots on Goal—Boston 11-7-7—25.
Los Angeles 10-15-3—28.
Power-play opportunities—Boston 1
of 1; Los Angeles 1 of 3.
Goalies—Boston, Khudobin 3-5-1 (28
shots-27 saves). Los Angeles, Budaj
27-20-3 (23-21).
A—18,230 (18,118). T—2:35.
Referees—Marc Joannette, Steve
Kozari.
Linesmen—Matt
MacPherson, Mark Wheler.
TRANSACTIONS
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
BROOKLYN NETS — Waived G
Marcus Thornton. Acquired G-F K.J.
McDaniels from Houston for a future
draft pick.
DALLAS MAVERICKS — Acquired
F Nerlens Noel from Philadelphia for
C Andrew Bogut, G Justin Anderson
and a protected first-round draft
pick. Waived G Deron Williams.
DETROIT PISTONS — Recalled F
Henry Ellenson and G Michael Gbinije
from Grand Rapids (NBADL).
MILWAUKEE
BREWERS
—
Traded C Roy Hibbert to Denver for
a future second-round pick.
NEW ORLEANS PELICANS —
Waived F Terrence Jones. Signed G
Hollis Thompson to a 10-day contract.
OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER —
Acquired Fs Taj Gibson and Doug
McDermott from Chicago for G
Cameron
Payne,
C
Joffrey
Lauvergne, G Anthony Morrow and a
2018 second-round draft pick.
PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Waived
G Chasson Randle.
PHOENIX SUNS — Traded F P.J.
Tucker to Toronto Raptors for F
Jared Sullinger and 2017 and 2018 second-round draft picks. Acquired F
Mike Scott, the rights to G Cenk
Akyol and cash considerations from
Atlanta for a 2017 second-round pick.
CLASS AA
FIRST ROUND
Feb. 17
No. 9 Troy 53, No. 8 Colonie 47
No. 7 Bethlehem 49, No. 10
Niskayuna 42
No. 6 Catholic Central 54, No. 11
Guilderland 30
QUARTERFINALS
Feb. 22
at Shaker HS
No. 4 Saratoga 72, No. 5 Albany 49
No. 1 Shaker 64, No. 9 Troy 30
at Shenendehowa HS
No. 3 Columbia 62, No. 6 Catholic
Central 52
No. 2 Shenendehowa 68, No. 7
Bethlehem 45
SEMIFINALS
Feb. 27
at Guilderland HS
No. 3 Columbia vs. No. 2
Shenendehowa, 6 p.m.
No. 4 Saratoga vs. No. 1 Shaker,
7:30 p.m.
FINAL
March 4
at Glens Falls Civic Center, 6 p.m.
CLASS A
FIRST ROUND
Feb. 17
No. 9 Hudson Falls 53, No. 8 Holy
Names 38
No. 5 Scotia-Glenville 72, No. 12
Bishop Maginn 24
No. 7 Lansingburgh 54, No. 10 South
Glens Falls 40
No. 6 Queensbury 66, No. 11 Albany
Leadership Charter 55
QUARTERFINALS
Feb. 23
at Averill Park HS
No. 4 Gloversville 61, No. 5 ScotiaGlenville 50
No. 1 Averill Park 65, No. 9 Hudson
Falls 45
at Amsterdam HS
No. 6 Queensbury 59, No. 3
Mohonasen 56
No. 2 Amsterdam 61, No. 7
Lansingburgh 46
SEMIFINALS
Feb. 28
at Colonie HS
No. 2 Amsterdam vs. No. 6
Queensbury, 6 p.m.
No. 1 Averill Park vs. No. 4
Gloversville, 7:30 p.m.
FINAL
March 3
at Hudson Valley CC, 7:45 p.m.
CLASS B
FIRST ROUND
Feb. 21
No. 8 Fonda-Fultonville 65, No. 9
Voorheesville 64
No. 4 Hoosick Falls 56, No. 13
Schuylerville 30
No. 5 Hudson 46, No. 12 Emma
Willard 24
No. 2 Tamarac 75, No. 15 Ravena 31
No. 10 Johnstown 57, No. 7
Cobleskill-Richmondville 49
No. 3 Watervliet 76, No. 14
Schalmont 50
No. 6 Cohoes 65, No. 11 Catskill 23
QUARTERFINALS
Feb. 25
at Glens Falls HS
No. 5 Hudson vs. No. 4 Hoosick
Falls, 6 p.m.
No. 8 Fonda-Fultonville at No. 1
Glens Falls, 7:30 p.m.
at Tamarac HS
No. 6 Cohoes vs. No. 3 Watervliet, 6
p.m.
No. 10 Johnstown at No. 2 Tamarac,
7:30 p.m.
SEMIFINALS
March 1
at Averill Park HS, 6 and 7:30 p.m.
FINAL
March 4
at Hudson Valley CC, 12:45 p.m.
CLASS C
PLAY-IN ROUND
Feb. 17
No. 16 Cambridge 55, No. 17 CairoDurham 32
No. 13 Mayfield 50, No. 20 Granville
25
No. 18 Rensselaer 47, No. 15 Bishop
Gibbons 42
No. 14 Chatham 38, No. 19
Canajoharie 23
FIRST ROUND
Feb. 21
No. 1 Mekeel Christian 61, No. 16
Camrbridge 37
No. 9 Greenwich 48, No. 8 Maple
Hill 38
No. 4 Warrensburg 44, No. 13
Mayfield 39
No. 5 B-K-W 75, No. 12 Stillwater 63
No. 2 Hoosic Valley 69, No. 18
Rensselaer 36
No. 7 Mechanicville 64, No. 10
Greenville 52
No. 3 Middleburgh 56, No. 14
Chatham 46
No. 6 Lake George 57, No. 11
Galway 48
QUARTERFINALS
Feb. 24
at Mekeel Christian HS
No. 5 B-K-W vs. No. 4 Warrensburg,
6 p.m.
No. 9 Greenwich at No. 1 Mekeel
Christian, 7:30 p.m.
at Hoosic Valley HS
No.6 Lake George vs. No. 3
Middleburgh, 6 p.m.
No. 7 Mechanicville at No. 2 Hoosic
Valley, 7:30 p.m.
SEMIFINALS
Feb. 28
at Cohoes HS, 6 and 7:30 p.m.
FINAL
March 3
at Hudson Valley CC, 6 p.m.
CLASS D
FIRST ROUND
Feb. 21
No. 8 OESJ 56, No. 9 Loudonville
Christian 39
No. 13 Whitehall at No. 4 Fort Ann,
n
No. 12 Salem 49, No. 5 Germantown
35
No. 10 Northville 41, No. 7 Fort
Edward 34
No. 6 Hartford 52, No. 11 New
Lebanon 24
QUARTERFINALS
March 1
at North Warren HS
No.
12
Salem
vs.
Fort
Ann/Whitehall winner, 6 p.m.
No. 8 OESJ at No. 1 North Warren,
7:30 p.m.
at Heatly HS
No. 6 Hartford vs. No. 3 Argyle, 6
p.m.
No. 7 Northville at No. 2 Heatly,
7:30 p.m.
SEMIFINALS
March 1
at Queensbury HS, 6 and 7:30 p.m.
FINAL
March 4
at Hudson Valley CC, 11 a.m.
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Thursday’s Games
Portland 112, Orlando 103
Detroit 114, Charlotte 108, OT
Cleveland 119, New York 104
Houston 129, New Orleans 99
Golden State 123, L.A. Clippers 113
Sacramento 116, Denver 100
Today’s Games
Memphis at Indiana, 7 p.m.
Washington at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Boston at Toronto, 8 p.m.
Dallas at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
L.A. Lakers at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.
Miami at Atlanta, 8 p.m.
Phoenix at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Utah at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.
Brooklyn at Denver, 9 p.m.
San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 25
Charlotte at Sacramento, 5 p.m.
Atlanta at Orlando, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia at New York, 7:30 p.m.
Indiana at Miami, 8 p.m.
Chicago at Cleveland, 8:30 p.m.
New Orleans at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Minnesota at Houston, 9 p.m.
Brooklyn at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.
Cavaliers 119,
Knicks 104
NEW YORK (104)
Anthony 9-25 0-0 20, Porzingis 4-10 00 8, Hernangomez 4-9 3-4 11, Rose 6-14
1-1 13, Lee 10-15 2-2 25, Thomas 3-7 22 9, Kuzminskas 0-0 0-0 0, N’dour 0-0
0-0 0, O’Quinn 2-6 0-1 4, Jennings 2-9 22 7, Vujacic 1-1 0-0 3, Baker 0-0 1-2 1,
Holiday 1-4 1-3 3. Totals 42-100 12-17
104.
CLEVELAND (119)
James 7-11 4-6 18, Frye 5-14 2-2 14,
Thompson 5-7 0-0 10, Irving 9-16 4-5
23, Shumpert 2-9 0-0 5, Jefferson 5-6 22 14, Williams 4-8 0-0 10, Felder 0-1 00 0, Jones 0-0 0-0 0, Korver 7-12 0-0 20,
McRae 1-1 0-0 3, Liggins 1-2 0-0 2.
Totals 46-87 12-15 119.
New York
33 18 28 25 — 104
Cleveland
34 35 18 32 — 119
3-Point Goals—New York 8-26 (Lee
3-5, Anthony 2-8, Vujacic 1-1, Thomas
1-2, Jennings 1-4, Hernangomez 0-1,
Holiday 0-1, Porzingis 0-4), Cleveland
15-38 (Korver 6-10, Jefferson 2-3,
Williams 2-5, Frye 2-7, McRae 1-1,
Irving 1-4, Shumpert 1-6, James 0-2).
Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—New
York 49 (Hernangomez, O’Quinn 10),
Cleveland
45
(Thompson
14).
Assists—New York 24 (Anthony, Lee
5), Cleveland 29 (James 15). Total
Fouls—New York 19, Cleveland 16.
A—20,562 (20,562).
Warriors 129,
Clippers 113
L.A. CLIPPERS (113)
Mbah a Moute 1-5 0-0 2, Griffin 3-13
5-9 12, Jordan 6-12 5-8 17, Redick 4-10
2-2 12, Rivers 7-16 1-2 19, W.Johnson
0-1 0-0 0, Speights 3-7 1-1 8, B.Johnson
0-1 0-0 0, Bass 4-6 3-4 11, Felton 4-7 44 13, Crawford 6-15 5-7 19. Totals 38-93
26-37 113.
GOLDEN STATE (123)
Durant 8-15 5-6 25, Green 2-4 2-2 7,
Pachulia 3-3 0-0 6, Curry 10-16 9-10 35,
Thompson 7-12 2-2 18, West 2-4 0-0 4,
McAdoo 2-4 0-0 4, McGee 1-3 2-2 4,
Livingston 4-7 0-0 8, Weber 0-1 0-0 0,
Clark 1-3 0-0 2, Iguodala 2-6 4-4 8,
McCaw 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 43-81 24-26 123.
L.A. Clippers 24 37 26 26 — 113
Golden State 31 18 50 24 — 123
3-Point Goals—L.A. Clippers 11-28
(Rivers 4-9, Crawford 2-4, Redick 2-6,
Griffin 1-2, Felton 1-2, Speights 1-3,
Mbah a Moute 0-1, W.Johnson 0-1),
Golden State 13-25 (Curry 6-10,
Durant 4-6, Thompson 2-5, Green 1-1,
Clark 0-1, Iguodala 0-2). Fouled Out—
None. Rebounds—L.A. Clippers 38
(Jordan 11), Golden State 53 (Durant
15). Assists—L.A. Clippers 23 (Griffin
8), Golden State 31 (Durant 7). Total
Fouls—L.A. Clippers 16, Golden State
27.
Technicals—Jordan,
Green,
Golden State team, Iguodala. A—
19,596 (19,596).
College scores
EAST
CCSU 62, St. Francis Brooklyn 53
George Washington 83, UMass 67
James Madison 70, Drexel 64
Marist 87, Quinnipiac 74
NJIT 88, SC-Upstate 87
St. Francis (Pa.) 73, Sacred Heart 64
Wagner 69, Bryant 66
SOUTH
Charlotte 83, W. Kentucky 77
Coll. of Charleston 78, Delaware 65
E. Kentucky 68, Jacksonville St. 65
Florida Gulf Coast 80, Stetson 70
Gardner-Webb 81, UNC-Asheville 76
Georgia 60, Alabama 55
High Point 59, Campbell 49
Hofstra 96, William & Mary 82
Houston Baptist 81, McNeese St. 79
Liberty 61, Longwood 45
Lipscomb 85, Kennesaw St. 74
Morehead St. 73, Tennessee Tech 68
North Florida 73, Jacksonville 69
Northeastern 105, Elon 104, 2OT
Old Dominion 86, Marshall 65
Radford 59, Presbyterian 57
UNC-Wilmington 83, Towson 78
UT Martin 76, Austin Peay 72
UTEP 60, FAU 55
UTSA 69, FIU 67
MIDWEST
Cincinnati 87, Memphis 74
IUPUI 83, Fort Wayne 82
Michigan St. 88, Nebraska 72
Ohio St. 83, Wisconsin 73
SE Missouri 82, Murray St. 69
Seattle 86, Rio Grande 77
South Dakota 92, W. Illinois 81
SOUTHWEST
Louisiana Tech 85, North Texas 67
Nicholls 77, Incarnate Word 68
Rice 72, Southern Miss. 71, OT
Tulsa 82, South Florida 68
FAR WEST
Arizona 90, Southern Cal 77
ON THE AIR
TELEVISION
Auto racing
NASCAR, Xfinity Series, PowerShares QQQ 300,
practice, at Daytona Beach, Fla., FS1, noon
NASCAR, Monster Energy Cup Series, Daytona
500, practice, at Daytona Beach, Fla., FS1, 1 p.m.
NASCAR, Xfinity Series, PowerShares QQQ 300,
final practice, at Daytona Beach, Fla., FS1, 2 p.m.
NASCAR, Monster Energy Cup Series, Daytona
500, practice, at Daytona Beach, Fla., FS1, 3 p.m.
NASCAR, Camping World Truck Series, NextEra
Energy Resources 250, qualifying, at Daytona Beach,
Fla., FS1, 4:30 p.m.
NASCAR, Camping World Truck Series, NextEra
Energy Resources 250, at Daytona Beach, Fla., FS1,
7:30 p.m.
Boxing
Chris Pearson vs. Justin DeLoach, middleweights;
Andrew Tabiti vs. Quantis Graves, cruiserweights;
Lionell Thompson vs. Steve Lovett, light heavyweights, at Temecula, Calif., SHO, 10 p.m.
College basketball
Cent. Michigan at Toledo, CBSSN, 6 p.m.
Siena at Monmouth, ESPN2, 7 p.m.
Oakland at Green Bay, ESPNU, 7 p.m.
Akron at Buffalo, CBSSN, 8 p.m.
Dayton at Davidson, ESPN2, 9 p.m.
Manhattan at Iona, ESPNU, 9 p.m.
Oregon St. at California, FS1, 10 p.m.
Golf
PGA Tour, Honda Classic, second round, at Palm
Beach Gardens, Fla., GOLF, 2 p.m.
LPGA Tour, Honda LPGA Thailand, third round, at
Chonburi, Thailand, GOLF, 1 a.m. (Saturday)
Major League Baseball
Spring training, Philadelphia vs. N.Y. Yankees, at
Tampa, Fla., MLB, 1 p.m.
National Basketball Association
Boston at Toronto, ESPN, 8 p.m.
San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, ESPN, 10:30 p.m.
Women’s college basketball
Creighton at Xavier, FS2, 7 p.m.
Road warriors
Not done yet
Rangers get past Maple Leafs in shootout
to notch NHL-best 20th away victory.
Yankees’ Sabathia says he’s set
on pitching in 2018 and beyond.
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Sports
Friday, February 24, 2017
Lady Rams move on
Fedullo,
Pritchard
help AHS
top ’Burgh
By ADAM SHINDER
@RecorderShinder
TOWN OF AMSTERDAM —
On a night where the shots
weren’t falling, the Amsterdam
Lady Rams did everything else to
make sure their run in the Section
II Class A girls basketball tournament wouldn’t end in one-anddone disappointment.
Despite going through long
stretches of offensive struggles,
second-seeded Amsterdam dominated the offensive glass and
used an added wrinkle on defense
to keep No. 7 seed Lansingburgh
away as Giuliana Pritchard finished with 22 points and nine
rebounds and Nina Fedullo posted 19 points, 12 boards and eight
steals Thursday in the Lady
Rams’ 61-46 quarterfinal win
Thursday at Amsterdam High
School.
“We didn’t shoot well, but we
played super-hard,” Amsterdam
coach Eric Duemler said. “We
played pretty good defense, we
dominated the boards. High
school kids are gonna miss
layups sometime, they’re gonna
miss foul shots. We still scored in
the 60s missing layups and foul
shots.”
With the win, Amsterdam (174) advances to Tuesday’s semifinals at Colonie High School,
where the Lady Rams will meet a
Please see LADY RAMS,
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Adam Shinder/Recorder staff
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Cavaliers
roll past
Knicks,
119-104
CLEVELAND
(AP)
—
Carmelo Anthony was still a
member of the New York Knicks
when he awoke from his afternoon nap Thursday.
Once the game started, the
Cleveland Cavaliers made sure
the Knicks’ nightmarish season
continued.
LeBron James recorded his
48th career triple-double and
Kyrie Irving scored 23 points,
leading the Cavaliers to a 119104 victory over the Knicks, who
hung on to Anthony and Derrick
Rose at the trade deadline.
James scored 18 points and had
13 rebounds with 15 assists for
his sixth triple-double of the season.
Anthony, the subject of trade
rumors because of a strained relationship with Knicks President of
Basketball Operations Phil
Jackson, scored 20 points, going
9 of 25 from the field.
“I’m at peace,” Anthony said.
“I’ve been at peace. I’m happy I
won’t be talking about trades or
any of this stuff the rest of the
season.”
Anthony anticipated he would
remain with the Knicks.
“Nobody likes to be in limbo,
especially when it’s involving you,
but that’s not the way it is in this
sport,” he said. “Obviously, we all
knew kind of what was going on
out there, but nothing happened.”
Please see KNICKS,
Page 20
Amsterdam’s Nina Fedullo, right, and Lansingburgh’s Kemanni Gang fight for a rebound during a
Section II Class A girls basketball quarterfinal game Thursday at Amsterdam High School.
Hamlin spoils Earnhardt return with last-lap pass
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP)
— Denny Hamlin didn’t need a
Toyota teammate to grab another
win at Daytona International
Speedway.
Hamlin charged past Dale
Earnhardt Jr. with one lap
remaining Thursday night to
deny Earnhardt a victory a 150mile qualifying race that
Earnhardt dominated. Earnhardt
led 53 of the 60 laps in the second
qualifying Duel, but couldn’t
hold off a Hamlin charge at the
end.
Hamlin got a push from
Chevrolet driver Austin Dillon to
gather the momentum needed to
get past Earnhardt. Typically, the
Toyota drivers have teamed
together to navigate through traffic in restrictor plate races.
In the qualifying race, Hamlin
The Associated Press
Dale Earnhardt Jr. (88) leads Denny Hamlin (11), Clint Bowyer (14)
and Kasey Kahne (5) in the closing laps of the second of two
NASCAR qualifying races held Thursday for Sunday’s Daytona
500 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla.
didn’t need his fellow Toyota
drivers and even overcame a pit
road penalty to get the win.
“I don’t know what I could have
done differently to defend that,”
Earnhardt said. “Denny is so
smart, he knows what he’s doing
out there. Any which way I went,
I knew he was going to go the
other way and probably get by
me. If it’s the Daytona 500, it’s
the same thing, ain’t nothing you
can do about that.”
It was Earnhardt’s first race in
his return from a concussion that
caused him to miss the second
half of last season. He faded to
sixth.
Hamlin is the defending
Daytona 500 winner and has won
a Duel qualifying race three times
Please see HAMLIN,
Page 17
The Associated Press
New York Knicks’ Carmelo
Anthony, right, blocks a pass
to Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron
James in the first half of
Thursday’s game in Cleveland.