BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — On Christmas Eve in 1741, Moravian settlers named this Pennsylvania city after the biblical birthplace of Jesus. Nearly 300 years later, Moravians continue celebrating their Christmas season traditions in Bethlehem. They include the "putz," a Nativity scene that tells ...
1960 appears to be where the Warren Times Mirror shifted from an independent approach to presidential elections. The candidate they endorsed? Richard Nixon. Nixon might not entirely deserve the reputation he has currently. But the editors might want a redo on that one. What stands out ...
This story was first published in the Dec. 5, 2018 edition of the Times Observer. The story reprinted here may be the county’s clearest connection to a President of the United States: Today – December 5, 2018 – has been designated as a day of national mourning as we remember the life ...
“Now I ask you, are we supposed to go into debt for the rest of our lives just so a few business tycoons can sit on easy street from our great sacrifices not to mention the old people who live here in Kinzua who are living on small pensions or Social Security and will not receive enough for ...
“The surprising thing about this wartime presidential campaign is not that it is taking place at all (though even that seemed to surprise and impress some of our Allies and neighbors at first) but that it is so little different from the others.” When Franklin Roosevelt was elected to a ...
It’s no secret that Warren has been a Republican town for a long time. That’s led, unsurprisingly, the dominant papers in town leaving that way. When I went to look at the election of 1940, I expected to find “How dare Roosevelt do what no other president had done and run for a ...