If you’re of a certain age — about 70 and beyond — it’s entirely fine to be nostalgic about some things from your childhood, like hula hoops, Davy Cockett coonskin caps, Elvis or “Gunsmoke.”
One thing you shouldn’t be nostalgic about, though, is the measles.
Before a vaccine ...
Pennsylvania is wrapping up another Sunshine Week, and we doubt we could express it better than Christopher Baxter, Christopher Baxter is the CEO and president of Spotlight PA, a Harrisburg-based independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom. It is “a nationwide effort each year to call ...
Among the most important events to happen in Pennsylvania this year will be the primary election in April and the general election in November.
It is important to every person in the state, as every state House of Representatives seat and a number of state Senate seats will be on the ballot. ...
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 ...
Congratulations, first and foremost, go to Brandt and Conner Harer of Montgomery Area High School, Luke Simcox of Central Mountain High School and all the other wrestlers from Lycoming, Clinton and Tioga counties who competed for state championships in Hershey last weekend.
“We’ve dreamed ...
We are impressed with recent action by Lycoming County commissioners to eliminate positions in the pursuit of a more efficient county government.
To be clear, Lycoming County’s government is not firing or terminating employees. Instead, the commissioners, seeing the natural ebb and flow of ...