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Our Opinion

Our opinion: Be ready for coming ANF burn

A controlled burn is scheduled for more than 2,000 acres of the Allegheny National Forest, possibly starting today if weather conditions are right. The burn is the first controlled burn in the Allegheny National Forest since 2024, but this year’s burn is expected to be larger as federal ...

Our opinion: Seek answer to vape shop issue

Last week, Warren County joined the list of counties in Pennsylvania to seize illegal marijuana products being sold at vape shops. Authorities confiscated vape products, edible items, and 5 pounds of marijuana totaling an estimated value exceeding $150,000 in retail value from shops in the ...

Our opinion: Budget gap could be much worse

We’re sure there were many Warren County residents who read last week about the school districts’ $2.9 million budget gap between projected revenues and expenses in the 2026-27 budget proposal and wondered how that was possible after closing two high schools in 2025. The answer is the ...

Editor’s corner: Affordability keeps getting more expensive

Almost every level of bureaucracy is guilty of overusing the word affordability. As prices keep rising — whether due to inflation, at the grocery store or painfully within the last two weeks at the gas pump — that phrase gets repeated more than nightly “Law & Order” reruns. Let’s ...

Our opinion: Closing the reassessment book

The accepted rule of thumb when it comes to property reassessments is that roughly one-third of properties will see their assessment increase, one-third will see their assessment decrease and one-third will see their assessment stay the same. But what happens when some of the one-third of ...

Our opinion: With EMS, someone has to pay

No one should be surprised that the city of Warren is prepared to go to court to recoup payment from Conewango Township for city EMS services rendered to township residents. The city has made no secret about the fact that it wants to be reimbursed for EMS responses outside of the city as a ...