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Gasoline rip offs

Robert A. Miller Mill Hall On Jan. 6, 2026, I went to Hogan Blvd. to buy gasoline for my car. I was extremely disappointed to see gas increased 26 cents per gallon overnight. Then proceeded to downtown to see what Weis price would be. Noticed that 7/11 was still at $2.93/gallon. Weis was the same. The truck stops in Lamar were as of Monday evening, prices at $2.89/gallon. What is the problem here? Was it because Mr. Sheetz passed away, so let’s hike gasoline? Usually when there is a price increase, everybody goes up. Now it is taking days for others to follow, if at all. The ...

Dad retired at 65, I’m now 65

Theron G. “Terry” Noble Dubois, Pa. Fond memories of “the Greatest Generation” permit reflection of where we are, how we got here and more importantly, how we extricate ourselves from this downward spiral. After turning back fascism and other authoritarian foes, the Greatest Generation came back, rebuilt Europe and reshaped America. The post-war industry provided many with middle-class incomes, sufficient to raise and educate families, even offering some frills. America blossomed. Common was the factory employing thousands for generations. With many union members, organized ...

From insurrection to immunity

Tim Mannello Williamsport January 6, 2021 was not a misunderstanding, a protest gone wrong, or a footnote in political history. It was a full blown assault on American democracy. A mob, motivated by Donald Trump’s false claims about the election, stormed the U.S. Capitol and violently clashed with Capitol Police and D.C. Metropolitan Police. More than 140 officers were beaten, crushed, sprayed or trampled. Five officers died in the aftermath. One rioter died. The attack left nearly three million dollars in damage to the seat of the American government. Federal prosecutors charged ...

No losers in the playoffs

Jake Pickering Eureka The unavoidable fact that one of the NFC South’s four terrible teams is going to make the playoffs this season as a National Football League division winner is a travesty. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Carolina Panthers, Atlanta Falcons and New Orleans Saints are four of the worst teams in the National Football Conference. However, since one of the NFC South’s four flailing franchises will win their subpar division by default, one of these embarrassingly bad NFC South teams will be playing in the playoffs at home in January 2026, while more worthy National ...

MAGA’s New Year’s fireworks are lighting up the countryside

Kimball Shinkoskey Woods Cross, Utah President Trump’s New Year’s fireworks have brightened up the sky but also are burning down the earth like the recent Palisades fire lit up homes along the SoCal coastline. Trump’s two favorite, but highly dangerous, New Year’s gifts to the nation are illegal war-making and political bribery. The least legitimate leaders across the globe typically run the most aggressive nations. Today those leaders include Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump. There is a reason for this causal relationship. The pathway to long-term ...

Nothing could be clearer

Kimball Shinkoskey Woods Cross Nothing could be clearer as we start the New Year than the fact that the average American has chosen to ignore any sophisticated response to our darkest hour since the Civil War. Instead, we are retreating to those recesses of ignorance, inaction and self-pleasure where we hide our faces from reality and from personal duty. We saw that in clear focus over the holidays when we just bathed ourselves in self-indulgent tradition, normalcy and withdrawal from community, as the only real forms of action we can think of to engage in. Fix local, state and ...