I’ve got a folder where I throw potential story ideas for this space. Sometimes they sit there for months. They all need more information but sometimes that information just isn’t available. So here’s a few where I’m sharing what I’ve got: One of the county’s first settlers, a ...
Every year, there are slates of new laws that take effect in jurisdictions across the country. They’re evidence that our society evolves, that the needs of the law (or perceived needs, in some cases) are different than they once were. It’s a sign that life in places like Warren County ...
The Warren State Hospital has been many things to many people since it was established in 1880. For three years in the 1940s, it was a home for “conscies,” men who objected to military service during World War II and were, instead, registered as conscientious objectors. More than any ...
1944 was a tough year to get in the holiday spirit. Nearly 12 million men and women - including hundreds and hundreds from Warren County - were fighting across the globe. The Germans had launched the infamous Battle of the Bulge earlier in December. Casualty lists were getting ever ...
“The town was thrown into a great excitement.” Yes, I assume a ship sinking in a fatal accident in Warren would do that. Such was the feeling in Warren on Sept. 17, 1878 when the boiler on what The Pittsburgh Post described as a “pleasure boat,” the Shirley Bell, exploded in ...
By JOSH COTTON jcotton@timesobserver.com Why do the young and the fair and the gifted die? Why are those for whom life opens so full of promise and pleasure and usefulness, suddenly taken “over there,” while the poor and the old and the infirm, to whom life is already a burden, linger ...