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Our opinion: Generosity here burns bright

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The fact that Warren County is losing population has been drummed into our collective heads over the past 30 or 40 years. But the drumbeat of discouraging population news or disappointing economic news doesn’t obscure the fact that even as our population shrinks, our community’s generosity does not. Recently, we reported on the 2025 United Fund of Warren County’s Torchlight Campaign, which reached its $725,000 goal with support coming from a wide variety of sources, including a growing number of small businesses and individual donors. Like April showers bring May flowers, ...

Our opinion: State Police security lapses are inexcusable

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There’s a lot to unpack in the days after an arson attack at the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion. We should all be able to agree that security around Gov. Josh Shapiro was inexcusably lax given that one of the most notorious recent acts of political violence had taken place in Butler, Pa., during last year’s presidential campaign. It’s hard to fathom how Cody Balmer was able to climb a fence, smash a window, enter the governor’s mansion, use a Molotov cocktail to start a fire and then escape. Police didn’t catch Balmer - he turned himself in. It’s worth mentioning the ...

Our opinion: New fund could boost Sugar Grove

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A core group of Sugar Grove residents have started a fund that could provide a boost to projects benefiting their neighbors for years to come. Starting the Sugar Grove Community Fund was the easy part. The hard part comes next as the fund’s advisory committee tries to grow the fund. The first opportunity to do so en masse comes May 14 during Warren Gives. To help the fund grow the Community Foundation of Warren County will match the first $25,000 in donations to the Sugar Grove Community Fund, dollar for dollar. Donations can be made online at WarrenGives.org, or by contacting the ...

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Light in the darkness? Dear Editor, So, for those of you who may not have had a chance to keep up with things, here’s a brief update on what’s been happening in our nation over the past three months. Basically, our newly re-elected leader and his administration have been recklessly dismantling our government, trashing our constitution, and doing everything they can to complete an authoritarian takeover of our democracy. They have been following the playbook of dictators throughout the world, and doing so at breakneck speed, e.g.: bullying, threatening, extorting and attacking ...

View from Hickory Heights: Rhubarb is up!

Local Commentaries

Yesterday when I looked out my back door, I could see that my rhubarb plants were up and growing. Today, unfortunately they are under a layer of snow. That is Spring! Several years ago, an employee who worked for my son wanted to get rid of some rhubarb plants. She dug them up and brought them down. I had room for two plants. I planted them in a small bed by the windmill derrick. For the past few years those plants have yielded enough to freeze and make pies and sauce for me. In years past, I depended on the rhubarb that grew at my daughter’s home for my supply. When my children ...

Our opinion: Taxes aren’t the only skill game issue

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Sooner or later, the state Legislature and Gov. Josh Shapiro will have to come to an agreement on a path forward for skill games that have popped up in bars, taverns, veterans halls and convenience stores throughout the state. State courts have ruled the games aren’t illegal gambling because they are games of skill rather than games of chance that are limited to casinos. The state Supreme Court said last summer that it will consider an appeal by the state Attorney General’s office of a lower-court decision that found that what are often called skill games are based on a player’s ...