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Water users deserve service, information

May 9, 2008

“Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.”

-Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1798.



Porter and Walker Township area residents might be identifying these days with the poem, “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”

Like the mariner, they have looked out at a bountiful sea of springs, and have been left with no water to drink.

The customers of Nittany Water Co. are experiencing the same woes we’ve seen too often when it comes to small, neighborhood water companies founded in earlier decades.

Clearly, too little has been done to modernize the system, which has experienced an exasperating series of water line breaks in recent weeks.

The situation has left local folks with few options beyond some gallon jugs and a spring on Madisonburg Mountain, or drawing supplies from a tank truck parked at the Nittany Valley Fire Company’s station.

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Help ‘Stamp Out Hunger’

May 8, 2008

You can help “Stamp Out Hunger” by participating in the National Association of Letter Carrier’s annual food drive this Saturday.

And it’s easy to get involved.

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Get pools ready, but do it safely

May 7, 2008

It’s that time of year swimming pool owners have been waiting for.

The days are becoming warmer and that means it’s time to get the backyard pool uncovered, cleaned up and ready for a summer of fun in the fun.

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It was a great day indeed

May 6, 2008

We said it would be a great day. And it was indeed.

The Hometown Heroes Celebration on Saturday was a day Clinton County will not soon forget.

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Money wasted on scrapped ‘virtual fence’

May 5, 2008

Taxpayers have spent $20 million to build a “virtual fence” along the U.S.-Mexican border — to virtually no avail. So many things went wrong with the project that we wonder why anyone involved even bothered with it.

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Share the roads with motorcycles

May 2, 2008

With the warmer weather — and the increasing price of gas — more motorcycles will be traveling area roads in the coming months.

And with more bikers comes increased responsibility by motorcyclists and those driving other vehicles.

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