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Opinion

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 ...

Our opinion: Giving back in Youngsville

Our Opinion

What can you buy with a penny? Not much, especially these days. But if you get a bunch of pennies together, you can do quite a bit. In Youngsville, 22,000 pennies collected by Youngsville Elementary School students will help the Youngsville Public Library purchase summer program ...

Our opinion: Keeping assessments current

Our Opinion

What good is a once-in-30-years countywide property reassessment if it quickly falls out of date? The answer, obviously, is not much. That’s why an idea discussed recently by the Warren County Council of Governments makes a lot of sense and deserves consideration as the reassessment ...