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Time is right to rebrand Warren Area High School

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By ROBERT JEPSON I wrote this letter to every school board member and superintendent. I received a generic kick rocks letter back from Mr. Paul Mangione. It’s a “we don’t honestly care about the public opinion” letter. Voices deserve to be heard. I am inquiring about when the school district plans to start its rebranding process and what that will look like. This is obviously the only fair route that needs to be taken after tearing apart two communities. During the school consolidation and closing process, one of the board members frequented the sentiment that some are ...

Other voices: Trump could learn from Washington

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Though rarely honored these days exactly on Feb. 22, his actual birth date, “Presidents Day” is officially still Washington’s birthday. And that’s entirely right and proper, as every American should happily honor our first chief executive. Washington was a man for the ages. Born a Virginia aristocrat, he carefully cultivated his virtues — self-control, moderation, civility; his strengths physical and moral — to become the most widely admired presence first in the 13 colonies, then in the new nation. As president, he also set the future course of the US government ...

View from Hickory Heights: Buyer beware!

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Today I share a personal experience with you. We were trying to refinish my kitchen floor. It was done about ten years ago, but needed a new coat of finish. My son came up one Wednesday and gave it a light sanding. He planned to apply a coat of finish on Saturday. We knew what we were doing so we had an expected outcome in mind. It looked beautiful when it was done. My son left for home, but left his equipment since he planned a second coat. A couple hours into the drying process I looked at my floor. It said it needed four hours of drying time. What I saw was not what I expected. ...

Our opinion: Disappointing DCNR audit

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Given the importance Warren County places on the outdoors, a recent audit by Timothy DeFoor, state auditor general, is pretty disappointing. DeFoor performed an audit of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources that showed the agency did not award all Community Conservation Partnerships Program (C2P2) grants competitively, instead using its own discretion when awarding some grants despite advertising it as a competitive process. The C2P2 program provides federal and state grants to municipalities, non-profit organizations and other community-based organizations for ...

The years pass but the impressions still remain

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The 1964 death of Kitty Genovese profoundly affected my life. I never met the young woman, but her name has lived in my heart for 60 years. So, when CBS Sunday Morning mentioned her name last weekend, it got my attention. Big time. I sat straight up in my recliner. The show airs a short history piece each week. This past Sunday, the segment highlighted the February 16th anniversary of 911, our emergency number. Much of the urgency toward creating a centralized crisis line was fueled by the high-profile rape and murder of Genovese in New York City. In March of 1964, the New York ...

Our opinion: Bipartisan caucus interesting idea

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We don’t want to get overly optimistic about a new bipartisan caucus in the state’s General Assembly. A small group of Republicans and Democrats in the state House and Senate have formed the Pennsylvania Competitiveness Caucus, an effort the lawmakers say is an effort to unify efforts across state government and party lines to strengthen the state’s economic competitiveness efforts. Competitiveness is something that rural Pennsylvania struggles with, so it’s encouraging to see some state lawmakers who want to work together to collaborate on policies that drive economic ...