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Our opinion: Byway designation is what we make of it

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Tourism is already big business in Warren County. The county’s share of tourism dollars has already been increasing at a faster rate than its neighboring counties, as we reported earlier this year. Overall tourism spending in the Pennsylvania Wilds increased 5.32% from 2023 to 2024. Warren County’s total tourism spending grew by 13.36% from $190.8 million in 2023 to $216.3 million in 2024. Local officials hope the recent addition of Pennsylvania Route 6 in Warren, McKean, Potter and Tioga counties as an official Pennsylvania Scenic Byway will unlock even more potential help for ...

Our opinion: Saluting our freedom fighters

Our Opinion

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day or the eleventh month 106 years ago, the hostilities of World War I came (for the most part) to an end. But though it was billed as the war to end all wars, American troops have continued to put their lives on the line for the rest of us and the world during another century’s worth of fighting. And so, since 1954, we have paused on Veterans Day to honor those men and women who have served us, in the U.S. Armed Forces. Those who chose — and those who had no choice — to serve sacrificed everything. Some did not come home. Others bear the ...

Dems need more Fettermans

Local Commentaries

As I watch the events of government unfolding, it has become clear that the Democrat party many seemed to favor decades ago has been left behind with socialist thinking. Do standard bearer democrats today appreciate the call of “Democratic Socialists of America” as their rally cry? New York City may be the first of many cities to go a socialist route. Democrats who care about the party need to step up and not let the socialists control what was once a revered party of the people. Bernie Sanders is in his glory; he finally has cohorts in his socialist thinking. Do people not ...

Getting tougher to make it in N.Y.

Local Commentaries

We congratulate New York City for their astounding mayoral choice. Forget his sympathies for the perpetrators of 9/11 and his overt anti-Semitism – that’s ancient history. Let us focus on Zohran Mamdani’s real passion: Marxism. Mamdani is a self-proclaimed Marxist, just like the heads of BLM and the non-existent ANTIFA organization that burns down cities and assaults journalists. Mamdani openly quotes Marx’s Communist Manifesto, and promotes the Marxist ideology of violent revolution - just like ANTIFA and BLM (see Manifest section 4). NYC Democrats have demonstrated ...

Readers Speak

Letters To Editor

Divided we fall Dear Editor, I never imagined I’d live to see our once great nation slide so rapidly into such a darkly chaotic place, where our democracy is being twisted into an increasingly authoritarian state with those in power clearly lacking any capacity for empathy, compassion, kindness, or any semblance of genuine caring for those they were elected to serve. Our country, once described as “that shining city on the hill,” is rapidly turning dark — a place where fear, hatred, and cruelty are becoming the norm, like a toxic fog spreading and blocking the light. Our ...

Our opinion: Bringing ‘Hometown’ spirit

Our Opinion

You can always go home again. The question for Warren County is what, exactly, makes one want to go home again. The “This Is Your Hometown” campaign launched recently by the Warren-Forest Higher Education Council in partnership with the Warren County Career Center Marketing Class operates on the premise that those leave high school for college or military service do so with the idea that a reminder of what’s available here is enough to bring graduates back home. It’s not a bad idea. Reversing our population decline won’t happen in one fell swoop or one perfectly written ...