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Fear itself

Few things that endure today are as old and as constant as humanity’s relationship with fear. For as much as we dread the experience, we simultaneously crave it. Horror tales are a tradition as old as campfires, and today are a sprawling industry and aesthetic that many of us at The Express favor, if you can’t tell by our various October celebrations every year. Yet, a key element to horror is our ability to turn the lights on. The duality of horror is crucial: not just the spike of fear, but the calming wash of knowing that you are safe. Our society, in 2025, is wholly ...

KCSD faces challenges, but cutting librarians not a solution

The Express recently published comments from Keystone Central School District Superintendent Dr. Francis Redmon confirming the district’s intention to shed library staff — dropping from four librarians to just one. One librarian, for a district with a geographic footprint of just under 1,000 square miles. If it sounds like we’re winding up for a lengthy spiel about how important librarians are... Well, sort of. Redmon, in his comments, even acknowledged this: “We know that librarians are important to our students, our schools and our district, and in the best-case ...

When did we stop believing we could change our world?

Do you remember Y2K? For our younger readers (or anyone who is missing context), Y2K, or “year 2000” was an enormously-feared computer glitch for when the millennium ticked over. At the highest level — we are, shocker, not expert programmers or computer scientists — early programming languages considered dates to be a two-digit format (back in the year of ‘96, etc). This was expected to cause a global technological meltdown when 1999 became 2000, because computers would read that as the year “00,” which could wreak havoc on critical infrastructure such as bank systems, ...

Attracting industry, remote workers is crucial to region’s economic future

Have you driven around the area lately? While vacant industrial buildings and storefronts aren’t exactly a new sight in the area — Rust Belt adjacent as we are — we have been struck by the amount of opportunity that is just sitting around the region, waiting for someone to take advantage of it. This is particularly timely given the adoption of President Trump’s tariffs, the stated goal of which is to return manufacturing to American shores and return the “Made in America” stamp to one of prestige. The impacts of the tariffs is not the point of this Our View, however — ...

Beech Creek Hotel an example of iconic local businesses

Best Wings This Side of Bridge, the sign says — an icon for many families vacationing at Bald Eagle State Park, to say nothing of the fiercely loyal citizens of Beech Creek. We write, of course, of the Beech Creek Hotel, which we recently featured in a page-one spread to celebrate the history of the business — but more importantly, to celebrate the passing of the torch to its fifth generation of local ownership, as Amy Heltman takes over. Vanishingly few small, local businesses — mom-and-pops, if you will — can continue to survive and thrive in today’s world. The deck ...

Daylight Savings Time should swap more often

But not actually. You see, to be clear, we don’t actually think this is a good idea. It’s April Fool’s Day — but if you’re reading this, we don’t think you’re a fool. What started as a few intentionally messed-up temperatures in the weather forecast years ago has taken on a life of its own, and we wanted to take the opportunity to make a gentle prank with this Our View — but the prank is not on you, the reader. This is, in fact, a gift to you. If you’d like, you can go to our Facebook page — Lock Haven Express — and react at the people who will likely show up ...