I attended the recent “clarification hearing” regarding the language of four recall petitions submitted by four disgruntled citizens. I went for two reasons: to show my support for our current County Board of Commissioners and to better understand the clarification process itself. The ...

Bouquet From Renee Lindow, Breitung Township: I would like to thank the postal workers who are working extra hours under difficult circumstances to deliver the mail, newspapers and packages to the residents of this area. Also for those trying to maintain the usual operations within the post ...

With the political divide in this country at an all-time high and, understandably, many believing we are too fractured to ever unite again, please keep the following factual story in mind. When ultra-conservative the Rev. Jerry Falwell passed away some years ago, a fellow reverend went on CNN ...

"Might makes right." You may have heard this over the past couple of weeks. It has been is used by our government to take over Venezuela. It is used by Russia to invade Ukraine. It is use by the Orthodox Israelis to justify the taking of Palestinian lands. When will our president use it next, ...

We regret that we will not be able to have a train show this year at the Florence County Library as in the past. Both I and my wife, Melissa Lison, have had some major health issues much of this year, several still continuing. This has not allowed us to be able to get the show together this ...

Is diversity important in a successful democracy? The definition of diversity is: the practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social or ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, cultures, sexual orientations, ethnicities, etc. It appears to me that a ...