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Our Opinion

Our opinion: Remembering a record holder

Records are made to be broken, as the old saying goes. But records are also made to preserve the memories of former record holders. That one's our own thought, but it held true as we thought about Leyton Salvatore, a Warren Area High School sophomore who broke the school's 800-meter record ...

Our opinion: Put the phone down when driving

Imagine driving 55 miles per hour with your eyes closed for five seconds – the equivalent of the length of a football field. Sounds terrifying, doesn’t it? Now, imagine reading or sending a text message while behind the wheel. The five seconds spent looking at your cellphone and not ...

Our opinion: Torchlight shines through yet again

It certainly wasn’t easy for the United Fund of Warren County’s Torchlight Campaign to meet its $735,000 goal. The cost of living and doing business has gone up over the past year. As a county we deal with high poverty and a crippling loss of population that has led to some difficult ...

Editor’s corner: New York’s despair is getting desperate

Pennsylvania’s gubernatorial race is off to a cool start. Both incumbent Josh Shapiro and challenger Stacy Garrity are taking their shots at one another, but both seem to be holding back until the real campaign season begins later in the summer. To our north, it is a similar scenario as New ...

Our opinion: Dementia training for EMS makes sense

Legislation being drafted to require EMS personnel to undergo training to help them better interact with those living with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias makes sense, at first blush. Sen. Lynda Culver and House members Maureen Madden and Kyle Mullins are looking for Pennsylvania to ...

Our opinion: A better way to pursue murals

In Chautauqua County, government grants pay for murals around the county. Here in Warren County that isn’t the case. The City Council recently approved plans for a 40-foot-wide by 44-foot-high mural to be painted on the east wall of the WestPANet building at 216 Pennsylvania Avenue ...