Warren’s central downtown is glorious. It emits beauty and restfulness. It is welcoming. Who wouldn’t want to stop and linger? It has a “come join me” appeal. It is a far cry from our 1960 introduction to Warren when we had to drive through a winding ...

I am writing in response to the article on the “enforcement” of the dress code in Warren County schools. Upon reading this article, I was transported back to high school as if no time had passed. And it forced me to be more honest with myself than ever about the fear, anger, and confusion I ...

Now that I am alone, I do not can any more. I used to do a lot of canning. Canning was not something that I was accustomed to doing. I do remember helping a friend’s mother who canned tomatoes. She was an Italian lady who canned a lot of tomatoes for sauce and other tomato dishes. I ...

She is gone. It is as though the last thread holding the world together, dating back to my childhood, has disappeared. Queen Elizabeth was mourned, celebrated, and lovingly buried as I wrote this – glued all morning to PBS’ full coverage. I stumbled into the den at 5:20 a.m. and turned ...

More than 40 years is a long time to have been driving on rural roads in northwestern Pennsylvania without having had an accident involving a deer. There had been many close calls but no accident. But my luck ran out just recently, and I would say in retrospect that what occurred does not ...

The men and women who put their lives on the line shouldn’t have them placed on hold by a Veterans Administration that kept hundreds in isolation long after the rest of our state emerged from COVID lockdown. Yet that’s exactly what happened at the Veterans Administration Medical Center ...