New Year’s Day 2020 is in the books and, hopefully, a fond memory for you. You may have enjoyed a day off work, perhaps a celebration the night before, and maybe some college football on the big day itself. Forget to do anything? Hint: Checked your smoke and/or carbon monoxide detectors ...
To the editor: Pennsylvania has a regressive tax system where the tax burden falls mainly on the lower and middle income taxpayers, not on those with higher incomes. At the state level, the flat-rate personal income and sales taxes are examples. At the local level, the per capita tax is an ...
Wednesday marked the first time this winter area schools closed because of snowy, cold, windy and icy weather. And, predictably, when people awoke to see fewer than 12 feet of snow on the ground and less than whiteout conditions outside, there was the usual public protesting in the vast ...
To the editor: The Milroy Lions Club wishes to announce our January 2020 spaghetti supper. It will be held Thursday, Jan. 16 at the White Memorial Church, Main Street, Milroy. We will serve from 4 to 7 p.m. Takeouts are available. The menu will be the same: spaghetti, meatballs, bread, ...
Gov. Tom Wolf has announced a right-minded priority for 2020 — a broad effort to improve mental health services and change public perceptions of mental illness. The initiative includes more resources and a public-outreach campaign similar to the strategy that has been deployed in response ...
To the editor: In November 2018 I emailed a multitude of teachers at Mifflin County Junior High for parent-teacher conferences as my daughter was in her first year of junior high. She did not have bad grades or behavioral issues, but I wanted to make sure she was fitting in socially, she was ...
Haven’t gotten around to getting that flu shot yet? Figure you’re young and strong and wouldn’t have any trouble fighting off a bout with influenza? Well, if you come in contact with older people, children or anyone else for whom flu is serious — perhaps deadly — business, shame on ...
To the editor: On behalf of myself, and the entire Port Royal Borough Council, we would like to extend our deepest, and most heartfelt condolences, to the Don Clark family in their time of loss. Don was truly a family man, in the truest sense, being a loved husband, father, and ...
Should parents need any more reminders they ought to know where their children are, both physical and online, the Cincinnati, Ohio, Police Department can provide one. A couple weeks ago, the Northgate Mall in suburban Cincinnati had to be shut down on what should have been one of its busiest ...
Happy new year. Our rights are under siege. I wish that statement were hyperbole. But the events of 2019 make clear that Americans cannot sit back, go about their business and assume that things will be fine. Economically speaking, yes, things are very good. But law-abiding Americans are ...