It has been a good number of years now since my wife and I and our two small sons enjoyed vacation stays at our bunkhouse camper parked scant feet above the Allegheny River at Cloverleaf Campground located on Route 62 about six miles north of Tidioute. After the McLauglin family closed the ...

I found something in a book that I have about life expectancy. The first version dates from 1898. “The average of human life is about 33 years. One quarter die before the age of six years, one-half before reaching 17. For every 1,000 people only one reaches 100 years of life. To every ...

There aren’t many singing valentines being delivered these days. I miss our local quartet and especially the song they would be singing at this time of year: “Heart of my heart, I love that melody Heart of my heart brings back a memory When we were kids on the corner of the square ...

Dear Editor, We, the members of the Trestle-to-Trestle Task force, write in response to the “Drop anchor on launch” letter published in the Jan. 8 Readers Speak section of the Times Observer. The purpose of this response is to correct the apparent project misunderstandings presented ...

Today I am thinking about my cousin-in-law. His son has a birthday coming up and they look so much alike. Both my husband and Bruce are gone but these memories live on. We took two trips together and they were both good. The first trip was to Amish country in Ohio. We stayed at a bed and ...

A few days ago, before the sun was fully up, I spotted joy in the sky. It was a phenomenon I’d never seen before, and it inspired an astonished, “Ooooh …wow,” followed by a big grin. “What, what?” asked Dear Richard thinking I was looking at him. A commercial jet’s contrail was ...