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The fallen Fallon Hotel

The Fallon Hotel is yet again undergoing a reckoning. A new owner wants to keep it, with dreams to rejuvenate the sprawling brick building. The city redevelopment authority also wants it, perhaps to ultimately demolish the building due to its very, very poor condition and hazardous nature. And folks, The Fallon on East Water Street next to the Lock Haven YMCA is indeed in bad shape. If it survives as is, it will take a boatload of money to bring to code ... to make it safe and for it to live again as a hotel and/or restaurant and tavern, or even as an apartment complex. The ...

End the election ‘audit’

he belief that current “forensic audit” of Pennsylvania’s November 2020 election will give voters stronger confidence in our elections will do the opposite. There was no widespread voter fraud that would overturn the results. County election officials — from directors to judges and inspectors of election — did their jobs amid record voter turnout in our state. Votes were counted. Votes were recounted. The results were verified. The results were challenged, but no challenges were successful to change the outcome. In Pennsylvania there were more mail-in ballots due ...

Rural areas deserve broadband investment, too

Rather than reinvesting in locations that already have (internet) broadband to make it better, the pandemic relief money should go to places that don’t have any broadband at all.” That’s a quote-paraphrase that ran in an Associated Press story in The Express this past Monday from a top internet industry executive. And we agree with a new U.S. Treasury-Biden Administration policy that says as much. Rural areas have for too long been bypassed when it comes to meaningful broadband investment. Sure, cities and urban areas need broadband - reliable broadband. But people living ...

CATA worker shortage reflects huge challenge for all of us

Those uninterested in the workforce shortage in our region need look no further than the Centre Area Transportation Authority (CATA) to understand how severe things are ... and could become. CATA just announced it’s suspending some van/bus routes due to “unprecedented staffing shortages.” “Similar to many businesses locally and across the country, we are experiencing unprecedented staffing shortages, CATA CEO and executive director Louwana Oliva declared. “CATA currently finds itself in the situation of not having enough employees to cover scheduled transportation ...

Labor Day at a time when there’s a real labor shortage

It’s Labor Day 2021, more than 125 years after the first such legal holiday was declared in 1894 to be the first Monday of every September to “celebrate the working class.” Labor — and strong work ethic — perhaps have never been as important in our country than since World War II, That’s because there’s a labor shortage in our nation. Some call it a critical labor shortage. The COVID pandemic has changed things ... people. Many left the work force, and not by choice. We need them back. Our collective need to rise up and get to work — to manufacture more ...

50 years of ‘Ya gotta’ Regatta

It takes a lot of caring, committed and hard-working people to keep a huge event like the Lock Haven Area Jaycees Labor Day Regatta going year after year. But that’s just what has happened as this community marks the 50th annual Regatta this coming weekend. (Mother Nature will permit it!) With those Jaycee volunteers are sponsors, donors, businesses that support the Jaycees and event with money, services or space for storage, vendors who come every year, the City of Lock Haven and Woodward Township and local fire companies with their support, Clinton County, the Clinton County ...