To the editor: A few weeks ago, I wrote you a letter concerning the removal of Confederate statues. As I am both passionate about this subject and given to verbosity, it was, I guess, too long to print. I assumed the subject would quickly lose its currency and my thoughts would no longer be ...
Many of the protesters who went to Charlottesville, Va., during the weekend were there simply because they are bigots. Call them what you will, but the plain truth is that scores, perhaps hundreds, of the protesters were white people who despise and often hate those of other races, creeds ...
To the editor: I take exception with The Sentinel editorial of Aug. 12 — Headline: Brinkmanship with North Korea will lead nowhere positive. This wording, in my estimation, is a veiled insinuation that our government, e.g., President Trump, is engaging in brinkmanship with ...
To the editor: Every governmental body, every church, every civic leader must denounce the bigotry, hatred and evil that is strangling our great nation. More importantly, each of us needs to act positively to reunite as one. Marshall Hartman Lewistown
A truly rare event is happening Monday afternoon, one that has not taken place in nearly a century. The moon’s orbit will place it directly between the sun and the Earth, causing a total solar eclipse. That alone doesn’t make it such a rarity. The fact that it will be visible from coast to ...
To the editor: Recently at the Mifflin County Youth Fair the GOP was identifying itself as “Home of the Deplorables. And at the Huntingdon County Fair they were giving out balloons saying, “I’m a Little Deplorable.” Apparently, this was an attempt at poorly conceived humor and ...
By now you’ve undoubtedly heard about the horrific events that unfolded this past weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia. Several people were killed or seriously injured as violent clashes occurred when white supremacy groups like the Ku Klux Klan and other so-called “white nationalists” ...
To the editor: On Tuesday, Aug. 1, the Borough of Lewistown’s Southside Neighborhood Block Watch Group in conjunction with the Lewistown Police Department, held its annual National Night Out event for 2017. The event which was held at Rec Park, brought together numerous representatives ...
Silver screen spy James Bond may have driven an Aston Martin, but one wonders how the high-end sports car fit into Afghanistan’s intelligence agency — especially since U.S. taxpayers covered the cost. When U.S. Sens. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., heard rumors last ...
Like his father before him, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has become an expert at rattling the American tiger’s cage, with seeming impunity. But now, he has ratcheted up his rhetoric to the point that he risks triggering a war. Some analysts say it is all an act, intended to make Kim ...