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Aliens, Starlink and JFK

As a 16-year-old, when President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, my world stopped. Of course, we had no information about his very active social life, his purported involvement with the significant other of a Mafia figure, the hatred from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, the anti-Castro ...

Editorial: Slow down, show appreciation during road work season

Orange cone season is nigh. ItĢƵ time for work crews to fill potholes, resurface roads and complete a litany of other repair and improvement projects. ItĢƵ also time for drivers to sit and wait. Although the delays may feel frustrating, motorists need to keep in mind that the work is ...

Cheers & Jeers

Cheer: Two youngsters from Clarksville are due a debt of gratitude for their quick thinking last November when a tree fell on a family friend in the woods. Aaron and Kaitlyn Hilverding, ages 8 and 9 respectively at the time, alerted first responders after Timmy Howard became trapped by a fallen ...

LETTER: Who’s helping vets now?

President Trump has never served in the military, having received a draft deferment in the Vietnam era because of having bone spurs in his heels. We all know of his disdain for those who did serve and died, those “suckers and losers,” and those who were captured. However, in his first term ...

LETTER: Why shut down the best school we have?

On March 10, the Uniontown Area School Board voted 6-3 to close A.J. McMullen Middle School, citing declining student enrollment as the reason. While the enrollment numbers – 372 students across A.J. McMullen, Wharton Elementary, and Marclay Elementary – may suggest a need for ...

ItĢƵ time to clean up our food

At my current height and weight, I am overweight. If I gain 10 more pounds, my Body Mass Index (BMI) will reach the big 3-0. That would place me in the obese category. Since the 1990s, life expectancy in the U.S. has fallen behind other developed nations. This decrease in life expectancy is due ...