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Don’t sit out this midterm election

Without a presidential race on the ballot, some voters will sit out next month’s election. We hope you won’t be among them. The governor and legislators elected this fall will help decide how much state money reaches our school districts, which transportation needs get funded and how Pennsylvania taxes and spends. Our representative in Congress will vote on federal policy affecting agriculture, health care and programs people here depend on. Those responsibilities deserve our attention every election year. Pennsylvania’s general election is Tuesday, Nov. 3. Voters will choose a ...

Second train opens new door for local tourism

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 actually possible. If it gives passengers several hours in Lewistown before the return trip, tourism officials and local businesses should be ready to take advantage of it. Some passengers may come here intentionally. Others may be looking for somewhere to get off, walk around and break up a longer ...

Second train opens new door for local tourism

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 ...

A generation knows 9/11 only as history

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 ...

Tradition doesn’t mean standing still

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 is back in session — slow down and pay attention

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 ...