Of all the bugs I’ve known – from ants to aphids, from fleas to fruit flies – I like my travel bug the best. I was bitten early.
After college, when I absolutely couldn’t decide what I wanted to do with my life, I embraced my travel bug and became a stewardess. It was the perfect ...
In a perfect world — or even just a better world — Pennsylvania’s state budget would be both completed on time and would be a plan in which Pennsylvania’s taxpayers could place their faith.
We unfortunately do not live in that perfect world, and yet again our state budget has missed ...
For years the area behind the Dairy Delite at Routes 6 and 59 has been used to launch kayaks and canoes into Brown Run, which provides easy access to the Allegheny River.
But over the years the streambank had eroded, making it more difficult to use the area as a launch site. That problem has ...
Now that a judge has ruled the Warren County School District acted legally when it closed the Youngsville and Sheffield high schools, it’s time to stop looking toward the past and start looking toward the future.
The judge’s decision should be more than a legal formality that concludes a ...
A need to speak up
Dear Editor,
I wanted to share this with readers.
“First They Came,” by Pastor Martin Niemoller
Written after the Holocaust
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not ...
You might remember when the situation at Beaty was so bad that it was covered on the front page of this paper. One of the teachers appeared before the school board to report a chaotic environment — bordering on lawlessness.
The problem? Lack of a consistent principal. At that point, Beaty ...