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Another PA tuition freeze possible with “transformation”

Don’t for one second believe we fully support the integration of six of Pennsylvania’s state-run universities, including our own Lock Haven University. We said at the get-go that integration wasn’t necessary — a reasonable right-sizing was. Both are happening as you read this. “Severe cuts” is a phrase we hear locally as LHU integrates with Bloomsburg and Mansfield Universities. One result is a “renewed partnership” between the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) and the state Legislature, which controls a whole lot of funding to the 14 ...

Investments in ATV trails help us all

Anyone who travels the rural, mountainous byways of Clinton County can attest to the many ATVs they see on and in trailers pulled by trucks and SUVS, driven by people who love to go riding on any of the great trails afforded in our region. Thus it is great news to hear the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) announce a $1.2 million investment of taxpayer dollars and fees to build a connector trail linking (or working toward linking) all of the popular Bloody Skillet, Denton Hill, Hayneville and Whiskey Springs ATV Trails. The connector trail will ...

Shared police services makes good economic, common sense

It’s good to hear that Lock Haven City Council will investigate the feasibility of offering the city’s police services to other communities. Councilmen Jeff Brinker and Doug Byerly brought the idea to council after doing research into the city’s attempts at regionalization in 2017. Taxpayers can be served well — and better — through sharing police services, we firmly believe. It’s already happening. In neighboring counties. As an example, Tiadaghton Valley Regional Police based in Jersey Shore is even providing “police chief” services to Old Lycoming Township in ...

A most giving community organization

They’re at it again. The most benevolent Giosue Carducci Lodge 146, Sons and Daughters of Italy has just given away $45,150 to 24 non-profits, programs and community oriented projects from January to March through the Sons’ gambling proceeds. From drug and alcohol prevention to education. From Wounded Warriors to youth playing soccer. Multiple Little Leagues. Ronald McDonald House helping families of children needing critical health care. Infant development. Church programs. Special Olympics. A veterans park renewal. The United Way. Swimming pool rehabilitation ...

Putin must go and a shameful fight over celebrating our freedom

Much important world, national, state and local news over the past month has been relegated to the background — some completely overshadowed — by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s horrific invasion of Ukraine. We’re not optimistic of that changing anytime soon. Putin’s threats regarding use of chemical and nuclear weapons have opened potential prospects for a conflict much broader and intense than what has occurred so far, and news organizations on all fronts must not allow any proverbial stone to be unturned in their attempts to keep the people of this planet ...

Plea deals for 9/11 terrorists are troubling

Surviving family members and friends of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have a right to be livid over military prosecutors’ willingness to negotiate plea deals for five 9/11 defendants being detained at the Guantanamo Bay high-security prison in Cuba. In exchange for guilty pleas, prosecutors reportedly would halt pursuit of death sentences, while also possibly stopping objections to more lenient ongoing punishment for those of the five considered more peripheral to the plot. Something does not smell right in what has begun. In a nation where killers of one ...