I was inspired by a sermon preached last week by our pastor. He talked about the five senses. He finally ended on the sense of touch being different than all the rest of the senses because it is not centered on the head as all of the others are. The next day this quotation crossed on one of ...
We are ambivalent about recent announcements that the state will launch an Office of Outdoor Recreation. On one hand, outdoor recreation is a vital component of our region’s economy, creating jobs and bringing visitors who spend consumer dollars well beyond the businesses that directly ...
This past week was rough. Three good friends passed on to their creator – in four days. In between calling hours and funeral rites, I’ve had some time to think on the reality of the losses. Death is a subject most people don’t like to talk about. But we live with its reality every day. ...
There’s a lot of good things packed into Youngsville’s 13-page downtown plan. But the plan, developed by Downtown Redevelopment Services LLC of Ravenna, Ohio, will only go as far as the Youngsville Borough Council and borough manager Wendy Wilcox can take it. The plan is broken up ...
Our opinion: Seeing positives at hospital Warren General Hospital’s roughly $1.5 million loss during the last fiscal year is a punch in the gut after five years of the hospital turning a profit. Believe it or not, though, the news could have been worse. The hospital’s service ...
Once upon a time, life was pretty quiet in Pennsylvania on Sundays. This was mostly the result of so-called “blue laws” that prohibited many different types of activity on Sunday so that people could rest and turn their attention to religious observance. The first of the commonwealth’s ...