Breaking News, Local News, News
May 21, 2025
Unofficial results from the McKean County primary election are in — except for the write-ins. Countywide voter turnout was just 18.68% in total. There...
Editorials, Opinion
Aug 28, 2023
Public school governance in Pennsylvania often is a train wreck because even though things aren’t what they used to be, state law covering school boar...
Editorials, Opinion
Aug 28, 2023
About 110 years ago, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote that “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants,” which certainly is true of go...
Editorials, Opinion
Aug 26, 2023
By design, including structure and funding, police are arms of the government. As such they are supposed to be subject to civilian control, but rarely...
Editorials, Opinion
Aug 26, 2023
It was Aug. 24, 2021, that, in the wake of Andrew Cuomo’s meltdown, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul became Gov. Hochul, to shape her own record and legacy in Ne...
Editorials, Opinion
Jul 13, 2023
Both houses of the state Legislature have passed a budget and Gov. Josh Shapiro has signed it, but this being Pennsylvania, that doesn’t mean that the...
Editorials, Opinion
Jul 13, 2023
The torrential rain that ripped through the Philadelphia region Sunday shows yet again how extreme weather is becoming all too routine. King of Prussi...
Editorials
Jun 23, 2023
A “slap on the wrist,” is what House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer says of Hunter Biden’s plea deal over two misdemeanor counts of failing to ...
Editorials
Jun 23, 2023
With the June 30 end of the fiscal year looming, legislators must craft the new state budget’s education piece in light of a Commonwealth Court decisi...
Editorials, News, Round the Square
May 13, 2023
SELF HARM: If you or someone you know is thinking about hurting yourself or committing suicide, call or text 988 immediately or chat online at 988life...
Editorials
May 08, 2023
People who buy guns for people who cannot obtain them legally are known as “straw purchasers,” a benign label for a deadly problem. It’s particularly ...
Editorials
May 06, 2023
Count us as enthusiastic celebrants of World Press Freedom Day, marked this week. Across the world, too many journalists are punished, imprisoned and ...
Editorials
May 06, 2023
If the Supreme Court had a code of conduct and suddenly decided to scrap it as big questions swirled about potential conflicts, it would be a scandal ...
Editorials
Apr 11, 2023
With this year’s federal income tax deadline looming, the Internal Revenue Service has detailed its modernization plan that Congress has enabled with ...
Editorials
Apr 11, 2023
The list of Republican hopefuls for the 2024 presidential nomination keeps growing, but so does their timid silence whenever the topic of Donald Trump...
Editorials
Apr 10, 2023
A bombshell report in ProPublica reveals that almost every year for two decades plus, a billionaire Republican donor has taken U.S. Supreme Court Just...
Editorials
Apr 10, 2023
It was news everywhere, from CNN to “Saturday Night Live.” The principal of a Tallahassee charter school was fired after a photograph of an iconic mas...
Editorials
Apr 10, 2023
Voila: Tuesday night, posted on the website of ABC News, there was the full 32-page transcript from Donald Trump’s arraignment, allowing the world to ...
Editorials, News
Mar 07, 2023
UNIVERSITY PARK — Sheep and goat producers can learn tips for setting up barns and facilities for managing sheep and goats at an upcoming Penn State E...
Editorials
Dec 14, 2022
In a rare bit of good news out of the U.S. Supreme Court, there are signs that three of the court’s six conservatives are poised to join its three lib...
Editorials
Dec 14, 2022
Pennsylvania has an urgent need to convince more high school students to return to classrooms as teachers. According to the U.S. Department of Educati...
Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports, ...
May 22, 2025
JOHNSONBURG — “It was awesome to have great training grounds and access to people with the training skills I wanted,” said Mike Dietz, a bird dog han...
Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
May 22, 2025
Pop Hayes and I sat quietly in camp after a big breakfast of bacon, eggs and home fries, just the two of us. That’s a breakfast I loved then and still...
Lifestyles
May 22, 2025
Dear Heloise: When it's time to restock your pill dispenser from your personal pharmacy, it can be challenging to remember which time of day to take t...
Lifestyles
May 22, 2025
DEAR ABBY: I see a psychiatrist and psychologist for generalized anxiety disorder, major depression disorder and borderline personality disorder. Acco...
News, Round the Square
May 22, 2025
CCC: A recent Lumber Heritage Region newsletter had a fascinating story we wanted to share. It's about the Civilian Conservation Corps, the CCC, launc...
Articles, Outdoors
May 22, 2025
There was no time, really, to question whether this was a good idea. Thursday, May 1, I found myself among 20 state conservation officer trainees, wal...
