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Lewistown Country Club thanks all for ball drop event To the Editor: The fifth annual Lewistown Country Club Ball Drop was a great success! Just under 1,000 Ball Drop tickets were sold for the July 25 event. Congratulations to the following winners: • Closest to the Hole — Terry Warner • 2nd Closest to the Hole — Robert Woodward • 3rd Closest to the Hole — Pam Metz • Farthest from the Hole — John Thompson • 2nd Farthest from the Hole — Forest Fisher • 3rd Farthest from the Hole — Ryan McCartney The event raised more than $10,000 from ball drop tickets, ...

Who is at fault when unlicensed nurse is hired?

Editorials

The state of Pennsylvania makes it easy to figure out if your hair stylist or architect or real estate agent or any other licensed professional is able to work legally. The Department of State’s website can answer your questions about permits and authorizations. The Pennsylvania Licensing System Verification Service allows access to information on everyone and every business with a certification from the Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs. It takes less than a minute to input the name, location and type of license into the website and have it spit out the pertinent ...

The right to bear arms also makes it a responsibility

Editorials

A violent attack in Traverse City, Mich., would not have been prevented by any of the myriad proposals for more intrusive “gun control” — the attack, in which 11 people were viciously stabbed, was carried out with a folding knife. Instead the first gun at the scene of the attack, which authorities are seeking to define as terror- ism, was carried by a law-abiding citizen, who helped defuse the situation and coax the alleged perpetrator into surrendering. The citizen, a retired Marine bearing arms in concordance with the Second Amendment rights we frequently defend in our ...

Everyday Americans are tortured by bureaucrats

Editorials

Americans like licenses. People think they make us safer. We license drivers. We license dogs. But most government licensing is useless. Or harmful. It limits competition, raises costs, leaves consumers with fewer choices and blocks opportunity for people who want to work. Michelle Freenor, a tour guide in Savannah, Ga., gets good reviews from customers. But her business almost didn’t get off the ground because local politicians said, “No one can be a tour guide without first getting a government license!” Bill Durrence, a Savannah alderman at the time, told me why it’s ...

I ruined my ‘surprise’ party, so I joined in the planning

Local Columns

Is it wrong to ask for Father’s Day gifts from your four kids and wife who just threw you a semi-surprise 60th birthday party in which you were showered with love, gifts and baked ziti, along with dozens and dozens of homemade cookies? OK — so before I request some Father’s Day swag (that’s what the kids call gifts these days for you old folks like me who don’t use, or understand the origin of the word swag) — let me tell you about my birthday party. My wife, Ann Marie, says I have always wanted a party, and she is partly right. I did but I didn’t want to have to pay ...

Local law enforcement made a summer night into something more

Editorials

They came with their families, friends, and neighbors, and for one night, Kish Park felt like the unofficial center of the county. The helicopters touched down on schedule, fire trucks gleamed in the fading sun, and the smell of grilled hot dogs drifted through the crowd. National Night Out 2025 unfolded as more than a date on the calendar — it became a genuine gathering of the community, shaped in large part by the commitment of local police. If you were at the park on Tuesday, you saw the work up close. Officers from Mifflin County Regional, Granville, Derry Township, and ...