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By Nora MishanecColumbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — Columbia County is seeking resident vol-unteers to serve on its police reform panel.

The county convened the panel to comply with Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s June 12 ex-ecutive order, which called on law enforcement agencies to solicit public testimony on policing strategies.

The county must adopt a plan to “reform and reinvent” policing by April 1, 2021, or risk losing state funding, ac-cording to the executive order.

Columbia County residents have until Aug. 7 to submit a letter to Columbia County Board of Supervisors Chair-man Matt Murell expressing

interest in serving on the pan-el.

Murell called the panel a positive step.

“I think it is always good to look at your operations and see how you are doing things,” Murell said.

District Attorney Paul Cza-jka’s office and the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office will be involved in the review of polic-ing policies, Murell said.

Murell hopes the panel will include a cross-section of county residents, including people of color, he said.

Murell, who convened the panel but has said if he will serve on it, said the aim is to appoint residents who

County convenes panel to review policing

File photo

In this Sept. 18, 2018, file photo, Columbia County Board of Supervisors Chairman Matt Murell, R-Stockport, addresses a meeting of the Columbia County Chamber of Commerce. See PANEL A8

By Kate LisaJohnson Newspaper Corp.

ALBANY — A COVID-19 resurgence in New York is in-evitable and bars may close statewide as the virus spikes across the nation, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said before expanding the two-week isolation mandate for travelers Tuesday to 10 ad-ditional states, or more than half the nation.

It is a mathematical certainty that coronavirus cases will in-crease in New York as infections and hospitalizations continue to rise in 40 states and Puerto Rico, the governor said during a telephone briefing late Tuesday morning. The state’s COVID-19 transmission rate is 1.02, mean-ing every infected New Yorker will infect 1.02 other people. The virus stops spreading with transmission rates under 1, or spreads quickly when one per-son infects more than one other person.

“It’s going to come back to New York — it is inevitable,” Cuomo said. “The virus travels. We’ve learned that lesson. It’s not possibly, it will.”

Out-of-state travelers are the greatest threat to New York’s low coronavirus infections and transmission numbers, Cuomo said, as the European strain of COVID-19 infected the Eastern Seaboard after landing in New York and New Jersey airports in

More than half the US on NY’s quarantine list

Mike Groll/Office of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo

Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a pandemic briefing May 23 at the Executive Mansion in Albany. New York’s quarantine mandate for out-of-state travelers was expanded to 31 states Tuesday.See LIST A8

By Nora MishanecColumbia-Greene Media

KINDERHOOK — More than two weeks after Harold Handy was allegedly assaulted at the home of a sheriff’s depu-ty, a friend of the Handy family is asking why no arrests have been made by the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office.

Handy was brought to the brink of death after being beaten by a group of law en-forcement officers just after 1 a.m. July 5 and nothing is be-ing done, Handy family friend Jeffrey Morrissey said Tues-day.

Handy was intubated by

Valatie Rescue Squad para-medics after the assault in the front yard of the home owned by Sheriff’s Deputy Kelly Rosenstrach and her husband, ClubLife Health and Fitness owner Alex Rosenstrach, which left Handy with a bro-ken knee and a broken eye socket, said Morrissey, who was not at the party.

Morrissey participated in a drive-through rally Saturday to protest the lack of action on the part of the Sheriff’s Office in the aftermath of Handy’s assault, he added.

“The kid is beat up and

Handy family friend speaks outBill Williams/

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State police execute a search warrant of ClubLife Health and Fitness owner Alex Rosenstrach’s home in Kinderhook.

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