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A life well-lived

Everybody has a story. Had it not been for his great-niece, we couldn’t have shared the one about Jimmy Rasel in last Sunday’s newspaper. The 79-year-old Lone Pine man was beloved to all who met him, and Amanda McWreath knew it would resonate with readers. And not because he achieved ...

EDITORIAL: Don’t be scammed by skimmers

As we march ever closer toward a cashless society, the time is now to ramp up security at the checkout. Credit card fraud is on the rise and the most common form of identity theft. The statistics are staggering – and somewhat surprising: – 63% of U.S. credit card holders have been ...

Don’t wait; vaccinate

There’s good news and bad news on the measles front. First, the good news: Of the 12 confirmed cases of measles in Pennsylvania, none, thankfully, were in Washington, Greene or Fayette counties. Now for the bad: It’s only a matter of time before the highly contagious, once-eradicated ...

Volunteer fire departments need your support

In the midst of this Lenten season, many in our area abstain from meat on Fridays. A number of groups offer fish fries as a way for Catholics to adhere to that religious obligation, though many others enjoy attending them. Among the many groups that prepare and sell fish sandwiches, pierogies, ...

What is happening to ‘America the Beautiful?’

I am sure that Lady Liberty is hanging her head in shame. Our country, this beautiful land of the free, is sinking slowly into autocracy. This is not what our Founding Fathers envisioned when they wrote the U.S. Constitution. The present administration needs an education as to what is in the ...

Opioid settlement committee long overdue

Kudos to the Washington County commissioners. In a rare unanimous vote on a major decision by the politically divided three-person board, the commissioners have appointed a committee of seven community members to decide which programs should be subsidized with the county’s share of the ...