here he was, standing on the sidewalk outside of a local business. He had a broom in one hand, and a garbage bag tied to the same hand. He was in full work uniform. It was late morning during a weekday. His obvious job? Sweep up litter around the business, which is one of the busiest ...

We are honored to host a “Time Out” (RSVP) open house this evening in partnership with the Clinton County Economic Partnership. We appreciate the consideration we get from our readers as we work to earn their respect and trust. We greatly value the business we receive from and our ...

It’s hard to believe it has been this long already, but 17 years ago today — on Sept. 11, 2001 — our nation suffered a terrorist attack on a scale unprecedented in our history. Thousands of Americans and citizens of other countries died when hijackers flew commercial airliners into each ...

Suffice to say, our area has dodged flooding this summer in the face of incessant rainfall. Our neighbors to the east have suffered. Who’s next? Maybe ... as rain started Saturday here and hasn’t ended .. yet. This so-called summer, with its way-above-normal rainfall, suggests that ...

We hear a lot about unemployment rates, the gross domestic product, business inventories and a variety of other economic indicators. But among the most interesting are productivity reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). In essence, productivity data compares the value of goods ...

We believe it’s safe to say area public school districts are learning a lesson from the overly wet summer. Schools all over Pennsylvania have delayed the start of school or suspended classes because of excess moisture causing mold. The latest in our area is Keystone Central, where ...

Labor Day Weekend gives Americans across the country a three-day weekend to rest, travel and celebrate our freedom to labor. Our jobs increased by two million people in 2017 and have continued to climb in 2018. Hourly wages have seen gains and the stock market has seen twenty months of ...

At approximately 10 a.m. this morning, Saturday, Sept. 1, a ceremony will take place formally opening the 48th annual Lock Haven Area Jaycees Labor Day Regatta powerboat races and carnival. At the same ceremony, Lock Haven and Woodward Township officials, joined by the Clinton County Economic ...

During 60 years in public service, first in the Navy and more recently as a United States senator, John McCain made many sacrifices and did enormous good for us, his fellow Americans. Before passing on to his reward, he rendered one more very great service. He reminded us who we ...

Pope Francis took precisely the correct attitude in his letter responding to a grand jury investigation of sexual abuse by priests in Pennsylvania. The missive admitted that too many in the Roman Catholic church “showed no care for the little ones; we abandoned them.” Since it was ...

The arrest of an illegal immigrant for the murder of an Iowa college student is adding fuel to the fire of calls for a revamped immigration policy. Perhaps Americans should look first at enforcement of existing rules. Cristhian Behena Rivera, 24, is charged with murdering Mollie Tibbetts ...

Keep the farmers on the farmland. That sounds like a very simplistic statement, but it is exactly what the Clinton County Conservation District board of directors wants in the face of county commissioners asking the agency to move into offices in downtown Lock Haven. The agency’s board of ...

We’re bringing attention to those people who are walking their dogs in downtown Lock Haven and allowing their pets to defecate on the sidewalk, and then failing to clean it up. We’re seeing signs of this in too many places, far too often. In fact, it’s happening in public places all ...

Classes for the fall semester at area schools are scheduled to begin soon. That means hundreds of school buses will be carrying our children and grandchildren to and from their campuses, and lots of school and college students will be walking to classes and bus stops. It also means ...

With a national debt of $21.3 trillion, keeping the federal government’s spending within the limit of what revenue is taken in has become critical. Yet, after decades of warnings that this needs to be done, political leaders have not found the will to make it happen. Last week, it was ...

It was less than a month into his term when President Donald Trump ramped up his “fake news” battle with several national media outlets, referring to them at that time as the “enemy of the people.” The rhetoric continues 18 months later as the term “fake news” now permeates all ...

Recently, the City of Lock Haven and Woodward Township were jointly honored for being named one of the “2018 Great Places in Pennsylvania” by the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Planning Association (AIP). The award from this national organization of professional planners recognizes ...

Thousands of American families are awaiting bittersweet news in the wake of what, for them, was much more than a new chapter in the long history of tension between our country and North Korea. They want to know simply this: Are our loved ones’ remains among those returned recently by the ...

Tonight, the Keystone Central School Board is poised to approve a temporary contract with Dr. Alan J. Lonoconus to serve as district superintendent for one year, or - we believe - until a new, long-term superintendent is hired. We're unsure of the terms of the contract. We know Dr. ...

Tomorrow night, the Keystone Central School Board is poised to approve a temporary employment contract with Dr. Alan J. Lonoconus to serve as district superintendent for one year, or — we believe — until after a new, long-term superintendent is hired. We’re unsure of the terms of the ...