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Options can save lives

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Cancer has a way of changing how a family sees time. I have watched people around me struggle with cancer and know how quickly life can become centered around the hope for more time together. It is one reason I believe we should do everything we can to help people catch cancer early, especially cancers that are far more treatable when found before they spread. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a perfect example. And unfortunately, the American Cancer Society estimates that 2,240 Pennsylvanians will die from CRC this year. The problem is that, for too many people, screening has ...

Unity of Americans keeps nation alive, well

Editorials

July 4 community celebrations across America on this, the 250th anniversary of this great country’s founding, sought to project a nation unified, although in reality much skepticism about that supposed condition exists throughout the land. Still, consider this: Regardless of differing ...

What other newspapers are saying: Feds own too much real estate

Editorials

The federal government is the largest owner of U.S. real estate, including more than half a billion square feet of office space. That is far more than it needs, and the cost of maintaining it has ballooned to unsustainable levels. The Public Buildings Reform Board recently identified 26 buildings across 15 states — totaling more than 7.3 million square feet — as potential candidates for the government to dispose due to poor usage and high maintenance costs. It’s the third set of disposal recommendations since Congress created the board in 2016. That’s a great start, but the ...

Disgrace

Letters

I have not written a letter for quite a while concerning the President of the U.S., but I finally feel that I need to express my humble opinions. I feel that Donald J. Trump is a disgrace to the United States and the office of the presidency. The corruption is off the charts, from cryto schemes to pardons for sale. The one thing that bothers me most is the destruction of USAID. This soft power program aided in providing food for starving children, HIV drugs (PEPVAR) and monitoring disease outbreaks primarily in Africa. The cost of the USAID program was under 100 billion dollars/year ...

Public safety should have been priority in resolving dispute

Editorials

The stand-off between Muncy Township’s government and the township’s volunteer fire company was, in a word, disappointing. While we are happy that the matter seems to have been resolved before it had to go before a judge, we question why the delays happened in the first place. We have to ...

Appalachian awakening: Rewriting American music culture

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AVERY COUNTY, North Carolina -- If there is such a thing as the classic Appalachian success story, the rise in popularity of the outside-the-box band Cigarettes @ Sunset would be that story. But nothing comes easy in Appalachia. The five-member band, which includes Garrett Dellinger, Ryland Bagbey, Sarah Vann, Wells Whitman and Ethan Moore, was born in the winter of 2022, practicing their music in the cold, unheated seats of the EDGE of the WORLD Snowboard Shop in Banner Elk, North Carolina. Four years later, they have amassed over 225,000 monthly Spotify listeners with a unique ...