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Opinion

Readers Speak

Letters To Editor

A helpless cat Dear Editor, Sometime between Tuesday evening, March 5, and Wednesday morning, March 6, a crime was committed in the Warren City Parking Garage. Oh, it wasn’t the kind of crime that gets splashed all over the evening news or makes nationwide headlines. Not the kind of ...

City still going overboard with river plans

Local Commentaries

As most of you are aware, the city of Warren is attempting to enhance an area of the city they are referring to as the “waterfront.” This is the area at the foot of Liberty Street just past the parking garage. After realizing that they couldn’t put a traditional “boat ramp” into the ...

Bumblebee bath allows for a natural buzz

Local Commentaries

In our Northwestern Pennsylvania summers many gardeners provide bird baths in their gardens. The bath needs to be cleaned regularly and filled with fresh shallow water. Likewise butterflies need a butterfly bath. These also need to be kept clean and filled with an appropriate amount of ...

Our opinion: Rural health care in tough cycle

Our Opinion

Sometimes it seems like rural communities are caught in a vicious cycle — jobs and amenities are not available that would keep young people there, and as the population declines, the remaining jobs and amenities shrivel, which makes a revival even harder to pull off. A recent story in the ...

Noting trade-offs and disappearing acts

Local Commentaries

Today’s generation of young people is growing up with their phones permanently in hand – a native appendage. By middle school they all have flying fingers that are impossible for this fossil to imitate. Our flowing handwriting is fast disappearing, replaced by choppy printing. Man has ...