The faceless warriors who answer your calls for help

January 29, 2022

Amid our wonderful army of health-care workers and first responders fighting the pandemic, we cannot forget the faceless warriors known as 911 dispatchers. Clinton County Emergency Services Director Andrew Kremser reminded us of that during a recent presentation to the Kiwanis Club of Lock Haven at one of its weekly meetings at the Sons of Italy. Like its sister counties, Clinton employs dispatchers around the clock. Those dispatchers in the old Flemington school handled approximately 71,500 calls in 2021. Let’s do the math: That equates to 1,960 calls per day. Dispatchers also ...

Tax day will be here before you know it

January 28, 2022

When the Wall Street Journal reported that the coming tax season is destined to cause headaches for filers, many taxpayers no doubt already were fearing the worst. The last two filing seasons, for 2019 and 2020, were nightmarish for millions of taxpayers, especially those who had filed paper returns and were due a refund. For many tax filers, the tax-filing seasons covering those two years were complicated by taxpayers who not only filed paper returns, but who also opted to receive their refunds by paper checks delivered by the U.S. Postal Service, which has been having its own ...

Has pandemic led to more abuse of elderly?

January 26, 2022

Could abuse of the elderly, brought about in part by the pandemic, be a problem escaping detection in the Central Pennsylvania region? Whether or not that is true, families, agencies, elder-care facilities and law enforcement officials must be proactive in watching for signs of that serious problem and be aggressive in pursuing and following up, when suspicions exist or are brought to their attention by others. For the bulk of two years, the illness and death tolls and the various COVID-19 variants, as well as the efforts to contain and defeat the virus, rightly have consumed most of ...

Staff challenges amid COVID catch up to Susque-View

January 18, 2022

It certainly is in everyone’s best interest that Clinton County’s largest nursing home is safe, well run and affordable. We certainly sense that belief is behind the Clinton County commissioners’ decision to sell the nursing home to Allaire Health Services based in Freehold, N.J. Commissioners Jeff Snyder, Miles Kessinger and Angela Harding took care to offer comprehensive explanations for the sale when announcing it last Thursday. So who are the new owners? They have one facility a couple of counties away in Danville, Pa. Allaire reports it manages/owns five large ...

Who’s keeping PASSHE accountable?

January 12, 2022

The downsizing and integration of Lock Haven University is playing out like a tragedy, especially to those who bleed crimson. Elimination of various programs of study. Multiple layoffs of professors and staff (the most in the state system). And the latest: Giving away 22 Steinway pianos. LHU has become the unwanted poster child of integration within higher education in Pennsylvania. A small college nestled along the Susquehanna, known over the ages for its teaching programs of study, then graduating to training future health-care professionals, including physician assistants and ...

Grading our testing

January 8, 2022

One local pharmacy had a double virus test kit for $25. Another had a double test kit for $23, with supplies running low. A third had a single test kit for $15, also with supplies running low. A fourth pharmacy was out of test kits. All within an hour’s time in one day. All in a scramble to find a handful of kits to buy because some family members had been exposed to COVID — or Omicron. That’s the story just shared with us by a loyal reader. The free test site in the East Campus of Lock Haven University — the old high school gym with an entrance on West Main Street ...