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Board approves stadium project

We are storytellers, capturing the lives of our residents in the Juniata Valley. Recording their spoken words for these pages for posterity’s sake, standing the test of time for all to read. We are fortunate to report on the stories of people like Josh Looney, a former Lewistown Area High School football player who was compelled enough about the multi-purpose stadium project that he spoke to school board members at a recent Mifflin County School Board meeting before they cast an important vote for the project. Looney shared many of his experiences about playing at Mitchell Field in ...

Lessons learned from unhealthy lifestyle

I never realized the importance of my health until I lost it. I used to think I could eat whatever I wanted, skip out on exercise, and my body would always bounce back. But all those poor choices and sedentary lifestyle caught up with me. I started experiencing fatigue and a lack of energy, a type of brain fog. I couldn’t shake off the extra weight I put on through the years. I thought it was a normal part of aging. The dad bod extraordinaire. When you are young, you feel indestructible. You feel like you’re Superman or Superwoman. You don’t think about the long-term ...

Open Line

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Don’t lose the moon counting stars

There is a very important issue that seems to be on everyone’s radar these days. You hear it deliberated nationally as well as locally. It is discussed on the evening news, when talking to law and government representatives, in our classrooms, our senior centers, television programs, and even in our churches. No people group is immune to it. It affects every age, socio-economic class, race, and sex. I think I could go so far as to say that most of us have struggled with this issue at least once in our life. Then why is it, I wonder, that we still sidestep it, build stereotypes around ...

Political motivations unclear on stove ban

The Biden administration is accused of using alarmism to control people’s lives and their recent proposal to ban gas stoves may be their worst offense yet. According to a report, gas stoves are linked to an increased risk of respiratory illness, including asthma in children, due to the pollutants they emit, including nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and fine matter. The Environmental Protection Agency and World Health Organization have deemed these pollutants unsafe. RMI, a group that advocates for carbon-free buildings and energy systems, led the research. However, critics argue ...

Does one unified rule make sense?

The unthinkable sometimes comes true and astonishes us with results that defy our expectations. We can see this in large countries that split up because of geographical, linguistic, and political differences. When Czechoslovakia divided into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, nothing terrible happened. Changing borders and jurisdictions is part of the natural progression of history, even though people tend to think what exists now should last for eternity. But this isn’t always the case. We usually only think about breakups happening to other countries, not our own—yet in recent ...