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Our opinion: Conewango email mess avoidable

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Felony charges filed last week against the former Conewango Township clerk should provide a lesson for area governments as they work to join the 21st century. The clerk set up the township’s email address that was used for township purposes like logging into Quickbooks to handle the township’s financial records and for communication with constituents. When the clerk was fired, for undisclosed reasons, she asked for and was given access to read the emails in the town Google mail account because she was using the address for personal reasons, too. The first mistake Conewango ...

Our opinion: Quick sale best for district, area

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Some members of the Warren County School District Board are pushing for a quick sale of the Youngsville Middle/High School building. In our opinion it’s the right move. Board member John Wortman’s suggestion to pursue a quick sale of the Youngsville building came after a school board committee approved the sale of the former Sugar Grove Elementary School for $75,252 to Jay Groves and Brian Horner. Gary Weber, district superintendent, said the bid is 30% more than the highest bid received the last time bids were solicited to sell the building. The last thing either the school ...

Our opinion: A new hunting debate begins

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Now that the great Sunday hunting debate appears to have been solved, some state lawmakers are ready to begin a new debate over the use of semiautomatic weapons to hunt big game in Pennsylvania. The state has long had a prohibition on the use of semi-automatic weapons for big game, with a similar ban for small game lifted less than a decade ago. It didn’t take long for a pair of lawmakers to introduce differing proposals for semiautomatic weapons for big game for opposition to quickly form against it. We can’t disagree with some of those reactions. We don’t think allowing the ...

Our opinion: Public notices must be accessible

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Some state lawmakers seem to think they have come up with a way to modernize how local governing bodies get the word out about their meetings, pending actions, tax increases, new ordinances and other measures. But Senate Bill 194 — which resurrects the idea of putting public notices on governmental websites — is another way to keep the public in the dark because the idea begs the question: “Who’s going to see them there?” Public notices have long been published in the classified section of local printed newspapers. Those who follow local governments regularly monitor that ...

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Masking the issue Dear Editor, Why is it that the Democrats want to de-mask the ICE agents? Maybe it is because they want their identity to be known so that their lives and family members’ lives can be threatened and possibly murdered. Maybe it is because they do not want the agents to be doing their jobs of deporting the illegal alien voters. Or maybe it is just as simple as the Dems are jealous of the masks that the agents are wearing due to the fact that these masks are serving a legitimate purpose unlike the paper masks that they forced on us during the COVID years. The ...

Editor's corner: ‘Impressive’ Swedish bond touches Warren as well

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JAMESTOWN — Near the entrance of the fourth floor conference room of The Post-Journal offices in Jamestown, framed front pages of historical significance line the walls. Some of those editions include the notable battles of World War II, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and a 1969 edition noting that man walked on the moon. One other is a tribute for two homes: the south county city and Sweden, a nation with strong ties and connections with the region and the 23rd U.S. Congressional District that includes Chautauqua County. “Thousands Welcome King Carl” headlines the ...