Much of the talk about a second daily Pennsylvanian has centered on what it will mean for people who live here. It will give local passengers more options for reaching Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and New York. But those trains run both ways. The schedule will tell us what is ...
There are certain days in a lifetime that people simply don't forget. For generations before ours, it was Pearl Harbor. For others, it was the assassination of President John F. Kennedy or the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. For so many of us, it was Sept. 11, 2001. Ask ...
If the people who celebrated the first Goose Day could see what we are doing with it now, we have to wonder what they would think. There are goose-themed foods, goose shirts, goose ornaments, a road rally, a 5K and hundreds of drones forming geese in the sky. This year, we're adding a “Red, White & Goose” parade, Goose Washington, penny presses and, because apparently the geese we already have weren't enough, an enormous goose on East Market Street. Somewhere along the way, Goose Day got a little weird. We think that's a good thing. Because after more than 200 years, Goose Day ...
School buses are back on the roads across part of the Juniata River Valley, and come Monday, there will be even more of them. Students in the Juniata County School District returned to class Wednesday. Mifflin County students head back Monday, Aug. 31. That means summer driving habits need to change. School buses will once again be stopping along rural roads, borough streets and busy highways. Parents will be dropping off children. Students will be waiting along roadsides. Teenage drivers will be heading to school. For the rest of us, it means leaving a few minutes earlier and ...
My son was furious when I picked him up from day camp, slamming the door when he got in the car. He had been downgraded from a "yellow" swimmer to a "red" swimmer. He hadn't forgotten how to swim. The YMCA had simply changed its policy. My son loves to swim. He likes donning goggles and swimming underwater, not to mention perfecting his handstand. But the YMCA had changed its safety rules, and rightfully so. The shallow end reaches 5 feet deep, and campers now have to be at least 5 feet tall to swim there without a life jacket unless they pass the swim test. My son is 4 feet, 10 ...
There are a couple of stories that seem unrelated but are very related. They show the story of a country that used to build things and has decided, without ever quite admitting it, that building is too hard. Start with the missiles. Rep. Mike Turner was on television last week talking about letting Ukraine license our Patriot technology and build the missiles themselves, because the threat is spreading and our defenses must spread with it. He is right. Think how strange that is. The most powerful country in history is handing another nation the recipe for our best defensive weapon ...
