Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 20, 2022
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — As Christmas approaches, readers have asked me how they can donate to charities that are helping Ukrainians. At a time when Russi...
News, Round the Square
Oct 22, 2022
BUSY: Bradford native Roxanne Benjamin is staying busy! She recently directed two episodes of “One of Us Is Lying” season two, which is out now on Pea...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 14, 2022
An elderly Ukrainian village woman comes to her garden gate and freezes as she watches a soldier approach. Then she puts her hand to her mouth, and be...
News, Round the Square
Jul 12, 2022
FREE FRIES: With National French Fry Day on Wednesday, July 13, McDonald’s has decided to offer everyone an additional reason to celebrate the day — a...
News
May 31, 2022
“Today belongs to all who did not get to take off the uniform,” said Captain Craig Felker, speaker at the World War II Museum in Eldred on Monday and ...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 19, 2022
Americans are used to picturing Army combat soldiers as incredibly tough individuals, able to run faster and do more pushups than most people. In toda...
News, Round the Square
Apr 27, 2022
VICTORY AT YORK: Today is the anniversary of the day on which American troops captured York, Ontario — now, present day Toronto — during the War of 18...
News, Round the Square
Mar 29, 2022
FIFTH ANNIVERSARY: Today marks 48 years since the war in Vietnam ended. On this day, in 1973, U.S. combat troops were withdrawn from the country after...
Сolumns
Mar 11, 2022
In a properly run dictatorship, Dear Leader always wins thunderous electoral victories. You won’t see Vladimir Putin in any late-night cliffhangers. R...
News, Round the Square
Feb 25, 2022
CIVIL WAR ORPHANS IN PA: The Pennsylvania Magazine shared a story on the children who were orphaned in the Civil War in its September/October edition....
News
Nov 19, 2021
Frances Sherman VFW Auxiliary announced it is chairing the “Veterans Kindness Tree” again this year. The number of veterans in nursing homes has decre...
Round the Square
Nov 11, 2021
HEROES: Bradford native and Korea Veteran Donald Neal shared this poem in honor of Veterans Day. They are Heroes They left their homes to go to war, T...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 21, 2021
No one is trying to topple the Alamo quite yet, but a new revisionist book on the foundational event of Texas history partakes of the iconoclastic spi...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 21, 2021
On June 19, 1865, 2,000 Union troops marched into Galveston Bay, Texas. They carried a message for the 250,000 enslaved people of the Confederate stat...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 30, 2021
The more we make Memorial Day about remembering our fallen warriors, the better off we are as Americans. And the day after Memorial Day, there are man...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 29, 2021
There are thousands of graves the world over for fallen Americans who died on the battlefield of war, graves that have no headstone denoting the ident...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 21, 2021
After two decades of war in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden has abundant justification for withdrawing all U.S. troops by Sept. 11. Yet his decision ...
Local News, Online Features
Jan 28, 2021
One of the sad truths of a global pandemic is the fact we can’t gather together as a large group to hear someone speak. One of the unexpected opportun...
Local News, Online Features
Nov 07, 2020
In the summer of 1917, from her apartment window on Kennedy Street, a little girl named Virginia Loveland watched the local Pennsylvania National Guar...
Round the Square
May 23, 2020
DECORATION DAY : Memorial Day was historically known as “Decoration Day.” To honor the deceased, soldiers would decorate graves of their fallen comrad...
Business, Local News
June 16, 2025
Two local oil purchasers have increased the price they will pay for Penn grade crude oil. Effective Friday, American Refining Group and Ergon Oil Purc...
Nation & World, PA State News
June 15, 2025
UNIVERSITY PARK — Entire regions of trees are disappearing because of invasive pests, disease and a changing climate. The key to their ability to adap...
PA State News
June 15, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Brad Hatch grew up near Altoona and started his career as a teacher in the local school district, working his way up to assistant p...
PA State News
June 14, 2025
PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
Local News, Nation & World
June 14, 2025
Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
June 14, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
