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Applause, Applause

Each Saturday, The Express community newspaper highlights people, groups and activities our readers deem worthy of applause. We want to give a huge SHOUT OUT and a big THANK YOU to the Susquehanna Valley Big Twins Motorcycle Club for putting together a basket benefit for us during their April breakfast at their club and to EVERYONE who came out to help our cause. Because of YOU, we were able to raise a total of $2,313. We are beyond grateful to everyone who came out to support us, to everyone who provided baskets and prizes for the raffle and to everyone who bought chances for the ...

Even more notable Havenites

Express readers seem to enjoy hearing about notabilities in Church’s “Old Town,” renamed Lock Haven. These are personal memories about Havenites who may be gone, but not forgotten. We once had accessible doctors McDonough, Triers, Delgrippo, Brickley, Long, Dolan, Myers, Clover, Lindsay, Teah, Adams, Brandt, Hoberman, Thomas Dicuccio and a host of others, including Michael R. “Mickey” Greenberg. Prepared with his fresh basil spice, we were enjoying a late-night pizza when Mickey’s Sunset Pines phone rang and he had a long dialogue with an ill patient. I met Mickey at ...

The mixed messages or dog whistles from Trump

When President Donald Trump says he “may do” something, it also means he “may not” do something. He covers all his bases so no one can be surprised. Trump realizes that people will believe what they want to believe. Because of that fact, Trump gives messages that some people can embrace and others can dislike. He taps into people’s worst and best inclinations. His magic is that he never apologizes for either action, leaving people to embrace what they want to embrace in Trump’s often dualist messages. Then, when things go wrong (as they often do), Trump offers a ...

Dear Annie: Standing firm with family

Dear Annie: My husband has three children from his first marriage. For the first 20 years of us being married, everything was great. But the last 15 years have been hell with two of the children. They became super religious and political to the point they are always pushing their way of life on us. We told them to stop, that we have our own religious and political beliefs and to please accept us for who we are, and we will be respectful of what they think. It’s been 14 years since and we’ve had no contact with them. A few weeks ago, they popped up in a horrible way. I won’t ...

Antique rustic furniture can hide many surprises

Think of wooden furniture, and most of us picture defined shapes, even lines and symmetry. Of course, that isn’t always the case. Historically, wood was left with uneven live edges when furniture was made quickly out of necessity, not as a design choice. While raw edges, twig construction ...

Keep artificial intelligence out of American classrooms

Norway is, by almost any metric, a profoundly successful nation. It’s rich, democratic and relatively corruption-free. It’s not a socialist country, but fans of a robust welfare state and high taxes see much to admire in the very progressive Norwegian model. It also benefits from having the biggest and arguably best-run sovereign wealth fund in the world. And yet, Norway nearly ruined its children. In 2016, flush with cash and progressive values, Norway gave every child in the country, starting at the age of 5, their own iPad or similar digital device. A decade later, young ...