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View from Hickory Heights: Two-wheel riding

Local Commentaries

Do you remember learning to ride a bicycle? When I was about eight years old, I got a bicycle for Christmas. Since we lived where we had snow, it sat in the garage until Spring. I was not a natural at riding a bike. It took days for me to learn the balancing technique. My mother and my grandfather took turns holding me steady and running along. I had no training wheels. Finally, one night I took off on my own. I did not realize I was on my own until I got way down the street. I was on the sidewalk by the way. My only problem was I did not know how to stop. I ended up in someone’s ...

Our opinion: Rethinking reassessment

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We hope that the current and future Warren County commissioners have been taking notes as the county’s property reassessment process drags on. Making the decision to finally undertake a property reassessment was necessary and correct. But postponing the decision for decades has created so much uncertainty among Warren County property owners that the process is far more difficult for taxpayers than it should be. No one is familiar with a process that should be at the very root of governance - making sure properties are assessed fairly so that taxpayers are paying a fair amount of ...

Another Memorial Day remembrance

Local Commentaries

Memorial Day was always a special day for me, even as a child. It was a particularly important day of remembrance for my mother. Every year, she made sure we wore the commemorative red poppies to honor her youngest brother, the family hero. Kenneth Arthur MacMillan was the youngest of four children. When their mother dies, my mother, Alberta, was 6 and the siblings were 4, 2 and baby Kenny was 14 months. He never knew his mother who spent the last months of her life in a tuberculosis sanitorium. Alberta remembered the four children gathering below their mummy’s window to wave and ...

Our opinion: Set common-sense boundaries

Our Opinion

Why did the chicken cross the road? Because it could. And that’s why the Warren City Council is tightening up the City Code as it applies to chicken coops located inside the city. Changes make clear there are no free-range chickens allowed in the city, no roosters, and a permit will be required to build a chicken coop because they are now considered auxiliary buildings. The new code language also gives the city the ability to check on permits to make sure chicken owners followed the city’s guidelines as to where the coop is located. Roosters in the city limits are also ...

Our opinion: Hutchinson isn’t asking much of PGC

Our Opinion

It’s encouraging that state Sen. Scott Hutchinson, R-Oil City, hasn’t forgotten about the expansion of state Game Commission lands that had many in Warren County pretty upset last year. The local state senator is drafting legislation that would require state agencies attempting to buy land to seek local government approval before the purchase takes place. It’s an attempt to enshrine into state law an idea Hutchinson suggested when Spring Creek Township officials asked for a meeting with state Game Commission officials before the commission took control of 2,195 acres of property ...

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Letters To Editor

Promising path Dear Editor, It’s sadly amazing that foreign criminals and corrupt judges can become folk heroes to some. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a Salvadoran national, falsely labeled a “Maryland man” by his defenders. His wife filed two restraining orders against him for physical violence against her and his stepchildren. He was stopped by Tennessee police for speeding and an expired license. Police noted he had at least six passengers, all without luggage.This seemed strange for a drive from Texas to Maryland. “Human trafficking” was suspected, but not charged. Garcia ...