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Courtroom cameras pose problems

Better clear out some space on your DVR.Starting next month, Pennsylvanians will see and hear proceedings from the state Supreme Court for the first time in history, since until now the court has never allowed oral arguments to be taped — video or audio — or even to be photographed. But ...

Greene County Kids

I want to start my column by talking about something that I wanted to bring to the museum ever since starting here in March of 2010. I noticed pretty quickly that we were lacking a very important key element in the success of the future of our beloved museum, kids. We currently have History ...

Newspapers not going away

Conventional wisdom tells us newspapers are dying.Of course, newspapers are not alone. Magazines are shriveling, too. The movie industry? It sells 75 percent fewer tickets today than its peak in 1946. Ask someone born before 1950 about radio; itĢƵ a shell of its former self. Broadcast ...

A short history of stereoscopes: In 3-D

When I was a kid, one of the first movies I had seen at our hometown theater was “Jaws 3-D” on July 22, 1983. After leaving the theater two hours later with my polarized glasses in hand and a smile on my 9-year-old face, I fell in love with the three-dimensional film genre. Even now, as an ...

Wife puts own twist on sayings

Idioms are for the birds.An idiom - in case you don’t have a degree in English or a proclivity towards the pedantic things in life - is a common saying or phrase that means something other than what it really says.?Take, for example, saying that something is “for the birds.” In the ...

End of streak comes with silver lining

The streak is over.Two weeks ago today - possibly as you were reading my last column (did you miss me last week?) - I went into surgery to repair a congenital defect in my kidney. I spent four and a half hours in surgery and two nights in the hospital, the first time I’ve had an overnight ...