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the campaign of James Skoufis, who is Senate looking to succeed retiring GOP Sen. William Larkin in a Hudson Valley dis- Continued from Page 1A trict against Republican Tom Basile. And Democrats have spent even and ethics reforms are all among the is- more on several of the nine Long Island sues that could be affected depending seats it hopes to pick up. on who wins the Senate majority on “Senate Republicans have held New Election Day. York back for too long, and the oncom- Gov. Andrew Cuomo is also helping ing blue wave will elect a functional Democrats try to win the majority for Democratic Majority in November,” the first time since 2010 and only the Senate Democratic Leader Andrea second time since the 1960s. Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, said in a The high stakes have led to a high- statement last month. priced battle in about a half-dozen Sen- The money is going out the door Arctic League directors Tom Bruner, left, and Tom Seem haul the tree donated ate races on Long Island, upstate and quickly. by Sophia Rhode, of Elmira, for the 2017 annual broadcast. FILE PHOTO the Hudson Valley as Republican go Senate Democrats had just into the critical election with just a one- $705,408 left in their coffers earlier this seat majority. month, while Senate Republicans still That GOP majority is solely because had $2.3 million. Arctic League seeks a a Democrat, Brooklyn’s Simcha Felder, Meanwhile, political action commit- caucuses with Republicans. tees have put about $5 million of their Christmas tree for broadcast That’s how tenuous the Senate con- own money into New York races, main- trol is. ly in the Senate. Jeff Murray Anyone interested in donating a tree The Senate GOP has already spent That spending has been led by the Elmira Star-Gazette can contact Arctic League board mem- $2 million on a handful of races, with $1.4 million spent by the New York USA TODAY NETWORK ber Tom Seem at 607-562-8082 or the most — $338,000 — funneled to the State United Teachers union through [email protected]. campaign of Long Island incumbent its committee called Fighting for our The Arctic League is looking for a Prospective donors should provide a Elaine Philips, who is running against Future to help Democratic candidates. Christmas tree to grace the main stage of description of the tree, its location and Democrat Anna Kaplan. The union on Friday added another the Clemens Center during its annual their telephone number. Nominations The GOP then spent another $1 million to its political group as it tries broadcast Dec. 2. must be made by Nov. 16. $117,000 on her campaign’s behalf, rec- to help Democrats. The tree should be about 10 to 12 feet The Arctic League broadcast commit- ords show. “It’s time for the people who teach in in height and must be in Chemung tee will review nominated trees Nov. 19, The state Association of Realtors our schools; keep our streets safe; and County. and the selected tree will be cut down has spent $450,000 to boost the re- who care deeply about runaway college The tree that’s chosen will be decorat- and transported to the Clemens Center election bid of Sen. Sue Serino, R-Hyde debt, affordable housing, decent health ed by members of the Elmira Little Thea- on Nov. 28. Park, Dutchess County, who is also a care for all and the environment to have ter, with decorations provided by Christ- For more information on the Arctic real-estate agent. a real voice in New York state,” NYSUT mas House. The tree’s contributor will League and the annual broadcast, call Senate Majority Leader John Flana- president Andy Pallotta said last month. be recognized during the broadcast. 607-733-4576 or go to arcticleague.com gan, R-Long Island, said he’s confident Democrats have also been aided by Republicans can retain control of the another $1.1 million from a hotel work- Senate on Election Day. ers political committee, as well as There are five open seats after sever- $450,000 by a PAC run by the Commu- al senators retired or lost in a Septem- nications Workers of America. Island (25 percent), the Finger Lakes (19 ber primary. To counteract the Democrats’ mon- Health care percent), the Hudson Valley (nearly 18 If Democrats win the majority of the ey, a political committee funded by the percent) and Western New York (al- 63-seat Senate and Cuomo is re-elect- national Republican State Leadership Continued from Page 1A most 17 percent).The Southern Tier saw ed, the party would control of state gov- Committee has put about $1 million into about a 10 percent increase, third-low- ernment. Democrats hold a massive the Senate GOP coffers. And the GOP New Yorkers spent nearly $158 bil- est among the state’s 10 regions. edge in the 150-seat Assembly. also got another $500,000 from a polit- lion on health care in 2017, representing Both upstate and downstate, em- “More than anything else, I think ical committee funded by New York about 16 percent of personal consumer ployment growth in health care was people were awake, but are waking up City real-estate interests. expenditures in the state. stronger than in all other industries even more to the notion that we are “New Yorkers need smart, rational Growth in private-sector health care combined over the past 10 years. really the ultimate check and balance,” leaders who are willing to work across employment occurred in every region The comptroller’s report found that Flanagan said Friday. “We’re the only the aisle to deliver for all New Yorkers- of the state over the last decade, with while other industries shed jobs during ones talking about jobs, literally. We’re not partisan socialists run amok,” Matt gains of more than 10 percent for seven the Great Recession, both jobs and the only ones talking about cutting tax- Walter, president of the Republican of 10 regions. wages in the health care sector in- es, and we’re the only ones talking State Leadership Committee, said. New York City led with an increase creased during the downturn and con- about economic development.” “Senate Republicans will once again of nearly 33 percent, followed by Long tinued to grow in the past decade. On the Democratic side, the party’s prevail against a well-funded challenge Senate committee put $165,000 into based on the quality of their service.”

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Collin Binkley Defamation League, which has reported ASSOCIATED PRESS a surge in activity by white supremacist groups since Trump took office. Kevyn Perkins stopped cold when he At the College of the Holy Cross in saw the letters scrawled on the door to central Massachusetts, a student was his dorm: “N––– go back” it said, inked beaten in an assault that officials say in messy red marker. First he was blind- was motivated by the victim’s sexual ed by confusion. Then rage. And then all orientation. No one has been arrested in he could think about was dropping out, connection with the crime. finding a new school, escaping for good. Students at DePauw University in In- “I thought maybe I don’t belong here. diana reported four separate cases of So I called my brother and I said, ‘pick hate speech in October. In three, racial me up,’ ” said Perkins, 19, a freshman at and homophobic slurs and threats were the University of St. Thomas, a private yelled from cars passing by campus. In and mostly white school in St. Paul, another case, a threat with a racial slur Minnesota. “He said that’s what they was found in an elevator on campus. want you to do – you have to stay there Anti-Semitic posters appeared at the and stay strong.” University of California, Davis, blaming Often overlooked amid the recent in- Jews for allegations of sexual assault tense spasms of hatred – 11 dead in Pitts- that were made against Justice Brett Ka- burgh synagogue, two African-Ameri- vanaugh. Several Jewish groups on cans gunned down in a Kentucky groce- campus wrote a letter demanding a ry store, 13 mail bombs sent to promi- stronger response from the school’s ad- nent Democrats – are nearly daily ministration, saying Jews on campus flashes of hate that are no less capable have faced mounting prejudice in recent of leaving their victims with deep and years. permanent emotional wounds. “Anti-Semitism is very real and alive In October, there were dozens of ex- on our campus,” the letter said. “Jewish amples of the kind of hatred that smol- students should not have to be scared of ders without ever reaching national at- University of St. Thomas President Julie Sullivan, right, talks to Kevyn Perkins at walking on campus. Students are tention. It stretched from coast to coast, a protest in Anderson Student Center at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, choosing not to openly identify as Jews targeting victims because of their race, Minn. The protest was in response to a racial slur written on Perkins’ dormitory through our clothing.” religion, sexual orientation, gender and door. JEAN PIERI/PIONEER PRESS VIA AP For Perkins, the red lettering marred myriad other differences. the image of the friendly, welcoming An Indiana woman was arrested last campus that was sold to him by college week after leaving a racist letter direct- tenced to 24 years in prison on Oct. 17 “We need more than ever for our leaders officials. ed at African-American neighbors, urg- for torching a mosque near the U.S.- to ratchet back the rhetoric. People feel The incident led to a student protest ing them to leave the neighborhood be- Mexico border last year because of what like they’re on edge across the country.” that prompted the school to cancel class cause black people weren’t welcome. As authorities said was a “rabid hatred” of President Trump’s critics have ac- for a town hall meeting discussing racial early voting started in North Carolina, a Muslims. In sending the arsonist to cused him of fanning the flames with his tensions on campus. black Republican volunteer was accost- prison, Judge John Rainey declared: divisive political rhetoric – something Since he found the note Oct. 19, Per- ed with slurs and had a gun pulled on “This must stop. It is like a cancer to our the president pushed back against Fri- kins has become more withdrawn, he him at a polling place, leading to one society,” adding that incidents like this day. He put the blame back on reporters said, less outgoing. And although he de- man’s arrest. An Uber passenger in Col- create “fear all over the world.” for “creating violence” with he has cided to stay at St. Thomas, he’s left to orado was arrested after threatening his Anti-Defamation League CEO Jona- called “fake news” stories. wonder who on campus felt such hatred Middle Eastern driver and chasing him than Greenblatt said xenophobic rheto- Several cases happened on college for him, and why. down the street because police said he ric is feeding the anxiety of the current campuses, which strive to reflect the “I’m already the odd one out, and the “hated all brown people.” Violent clash- political moment, and that anxiety is nation’s diversity but sometimes attract words, the hatred behind it really made es broke out in New York City after a prompting fear and promoting resent- its intolerance. me mad,” he said. “Degrading someone speech by the founder of a far-right ment and “all the worst impulses.” At more than 40 colleges, racist flyers based on the color of their skin, I just group, leading to three arrests. “We’re living in a moment where hate or stickers were found posted on cam- couldn’t understand why someone In a Texas courtroom, a man was sen- crimes are on the rise,” said Greenblatt. pus in October, according to the Anti- would do that.”

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ALBANY – More than 16 months after New York lawmakers named the $4 bil- lion Tappan Zee Bridge replacement af- ter his father, Gov. Andrew Cuomo came through with his end of the deal. Cuomo on Monday announced the state would spend $10 million to signifi- cantly expand the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor in New Windsor, Orange County, adding on a new wing and revamping the entrance while im- proving parking and pedestrian access. The Democratic governor’s an- Funding for the Purple Heart museum had long been promised to state Senate Republicans as part of an arrangement to nouncement did not mention the nam- rename the Tappan Zee to the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge. JOHN MEORE/USA TODAY NETWORK ing of the bridge between Westchester and Rockland counties, now known as the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge. The state Senate unanimously first in America that received the Purple America — $4 billion project, on time But the funding for the Purple Heart approved a bill in mid-June 2017 that Heart. And with this money and the and on budget — and it lives, reaching museum had long been promised to would have named the bridge after Ma- leadership of Senator Larkin it will be for the heavens, beautiful, with Mario state Senate Republicans as part of the rio Cuomo, a Manhattan state park after expanded with more exhibits to honor Cuomo’s name on it.” bridge-naming arrangement, which Cu- retiring Assemblyman Denny Farrell our bravest.” Cuomo continued, seemingly ac- omo successfully pushed lawmakers to and the Purple Heart hall after Sen. Wil- knowledging those who criticized the approve as they wrapped up their legis- liam Larkin, a combat veteran who Origins of Cuomo Bridge name choice to put his father’s name on the lative session in June 2017. pushed for years to open the museum. new bridge and replace the Tappan Zee “As we honor our veterans and their The Assembly ultimately didn’t ap- At the time, Cuomo suggested the moniker. families this Veterans Day, these en- prove that bill, instead opting for the idea for naming the Tappan Zee replace- “The haters and the naysayers can- hancements to the National Purple wide-ranging measure the Legislature ment after his father came from Farrell, not deny it, although they always try,” Heart Hall of Honor will serve to forever approved later in the month, which the longtime Assembly Democrat who Cuomo said. “That is their nature, but it honor the courage and accomplish- named the bridge after Mario Cuomo, died in May. will stand for all time. Mario Cuomo ments of all service members,” Cuomo the park after Farrell and a highway af- At a June 2017 event marking his im- wins, a testament to possibility wins, said in a statement Monday. ter Larkin. pending retirement, Farrell raised the and Drew Zambelli and Andrew Cuomo It was during the Senate’s initial vote, possibility of naming the bridge after and his good team made it happen.” Bridge-naming deal however, that the $10 million pledge for Mario Cuomo, whom Farrell had served The Purple Heart Hall of Honor is op- the Purple Heart museum came to light, in state government with. erated by the Palisades Interstate Park The Purple Heart museum opened in though it wasn’t written into the bill. This past weekend, Cuomo offered a Commission, a bistate commission that the Vails Gate section of the town of Sen. John Bonacic, R-Mount Hope, different story. oversees parkland on the New York- New Windsor in 2006. Orange County, mentioned the money Cuomo delivered the eulogy Sunday New Jersey border. It exists as a memorial to the estimat- in his remarks on the bill on the Senate at a memorial service at Purchase Col- Final designs for the expansion are ed 1.8 million people who have received floor. lege for Drew Zambelli, a longtime aide expected to be completed next year with the Purple Heart, which is awarded to “This is a $10 million capital grant for to him and his father who died late last construction to begin in 2020, accord- U.S. veterans who were wounded or the Purple Heart,” Bonacic said at the month. ing to Cuomo’s office. killed in combat. time. During his speech, Cuomo suggested “It will help correct some deficiencies The museum had long been en- He later confirmed the grant was to it was he and Zambelli, a Mount Vernon at the Hall with circulation at the mu- twined with Cuomo’s efforts to name come from the governor’s office. native, who came up with the idea. seum, providing better amenities for ac- the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement af- “I would invite anyone who has never “For us, it was closure,” Cuomo said. cess to the museum as well as providing ter his father, who served three terms as been to the Purple Heart to see it,” Bo- “A great punctuation point to my fa- much more exhibit space,” said James New York’s governor from 1983 through nacic said on the Senate floor. “This is ther’s 1994 loss. The largest infrastruc- Hall, executive director of the Palisades 1994. located in Orange County for everyone ture project in the United States of Interstate Park Commission.

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Spencer-Van Etten Graduates of Distinction: Don Brock Town Talk and Dr. Donald Parks. I will try to profile Sally Marx them in my next column. Don Brock is Guest columnist from Van Etten, and Dr. Parks, a renown painter and photographer, now lives in North Carolina. As someone who works in a high school, I see lots of students who win New solar farm acclaim for their academics or sports prowess, sometimes for both. However, Spencer has a new business opening at Spencer-Van Etten, we have a group soon — Solar Farms New York, on the of students who are just “good kids.” hill opposite S-VE High School and They aren’t standouts in any of the slightly east, at 350 Van Etten Road. spheres normally singled out, but they At 10 a.m. Dec. 1, there will be a are the kind of people you want to be groundbreaking ceremony for this new around — who make you feel hopeful solar farm. The public is invited to at- about the state of the world. We are al- tend that, and also a complementary ways happy when one of these students New York State Sen. Fred Akshar named Spencer-Van Etten senior Daniel luncheon at Hollybrook Country Club does get special notice. Snowman to his Akshar’s All-Star Team. Akshar came to the high school on Nov. 8 afterward. Please RSVP for the lunch to The guidance counselors and ad- to present Daniel a Certificate of Achievement and his All-Star Team T-shirt. 833-877-7652 by Nov. 25. ministration at Spencer-Van Etten High PROVIDED PHOTO To learn more about this solar farm School nominated Daniel Snowman, and how signing up with Solar Farms son of Shawn and Treasa Snowman, of New York can help lower your electric Van Etten, for the Akshar All-Star This year, it will be at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 2 at support local business and, in doing so, bill, there will be a meeting at the Spen- Award. State Sen. Fred Akshar, of the Christ the King Fellowship (Presbyteri- help ourselves out, too. cer Town Hall at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 30. Bring Binghamton area, came to S-VE High an Church), 75 N. Main St. in Spencer. Tioga State Bank and the Tioga your NYSEG bill with you, and you will School on Nov. 8 to present the award to We serve lots of good cookies afterward! County Legislature say that when you receive a special offer. Daniel. He read excerpts from the nomi- shop local and small, the majority of the Another perk for signing up is that nating letter to show why Daniel de- Fundraiser for family money you spend stays within the com- you will be supporting CAN (the Chris- serves this honor: munity. Also, when we want a donation tian Activities Network), which owns “Daniel is one of the most selfless and We’ve had several fundraisers in re- to support a local fundraising effort, the new tennis courts by S-VE High kind-hearted individuals. He is always cent months for local families with a who do we ask first? Our local business- School. For more information and to willing to help when asked, and he does special need. Little Dakota Fanning, son es! They contribute a great deal in cash learn how solar farms work, visit so with a smile on his face. Daniel truly of John and Mykala Fanning, grandson or goods or services to our community’s SolarFarmsNY.com. The gist of it is that is not just a model student at S-VE, but a of Paul and Carmen Fanning, was badly well being, so it’s our turn to support subscribers get solar credits on their model citizen. He is responsible, he burned in September but thankfully is them. electric bill, with power generated in works hard in his classes, and he shows recovering nicely. He needed pediatric I will put in a plug here for Family New York. compassion and kindness to all. Daniel intensive care for weeks and a skin Farm and its wonderful, fresh Christ- has made a positive impact on almost graft. mas trees (usually all fir trees that hold In memoriam everyone he encounters.” His hospital bills are enormous and their needles). I can personally second every one of will take Dakota’s parents a lifetime to I bumped into Kim Clark at the Shur- Three folks well known in S-VE died those accolades, and I’m so glad Daniel pay off. We are very thankful that his life Fine. She works at Family Farm and told in the past few weeks. Our sympathy was singled out for this award. was spared, but these kinds of bills are me that they will be having an open goes out to the families of Don Miller, crippling. Friends of the family have or- house on Small Business Saturday. former pastor of the United Methodist Christmas concert ganized a spaghetti dinner fundraiser Family Farm is on Town Line Road, at Church in Van Etten and a science for them from noon to 5 p.m. Dec. 15 at the Van Etten/Spencer border, and the teacher at S-VE High School; Lee Diehl, The holidays are sneaking up faster the American Legion in Candor. (John is trees are also locally grown. The trees a former math teacher at S-VE High than ever before, for me. This is my last a veteran.) They are also looking for do- come from Don Brock’s tree farm, which School; and Ron Crawford, who lived in column before the Candor Community nations of baskets to raffle off and baked also employs many S-VE teenagers Spencer for about 10 years with his wife, Chorus Christmas Concert/Carol Sing goods for a bake sale. trimming trees during the growing sea- Nancy, and five kids. in Spencer, so please take note! son. 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