In July we offered our opinion that the Warren County School District shouldn’t remove cell phones from classrooms unless teachers said they were a distraction. Evidently, the phones are a bigger distraction than some district administrators wanted to admit over the summer. Back in July ...
Large families always made me jealous. I felt that I was on the outside, looking in. I was a happy only child, but life was quiet. Those laughing clusters of brothers and sisters looked like so much fun. Warm and cozy. Just recently I chatted with two friends who grew up in large families. At ...
We always knew $400 million in federal funding wasn’t going to be enough to cap all of the orphaned wells in Pennsylvania. But what’s going on right now is, frankly, ridiculous. A process that the state and private companies have used for years averages about $6,350 to $17,000 per ...
Here in Warren County, we’re having contentious, difficult discussions nearly every year about how to live within our education budget. Those talks aren’t easy, but they are necessary. That’s why it’s disappointing to hear Gov. Josh Shapiro take the easy way out when asked about ...
Local taxpayers probably don’t want to hear this - but the time to pay the EMS piper may be coming. Council of Governments members recently continued their discussions of the county EMS crisis with the creation of a local EMS authority, a possible solution being tried in neighboring Forest ...
Backing Harris Dear Editor, Thursday, Aug. 22 marked the conclusion of the Democratic National Committee’s event and the grand opening of the Erin Willman and Warren Democratic Committee Headquarters. Although we predicted a turnout of around 12 individuals, instead the headquarters was ...