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Durty Dabbers

Carol McDermit Lock Haven The weekend of May 30-31, the People’s United Methodist Church of Farrandsville had the pleasure of serving breakfast to the Durty Dabber Cycle Club at the Castanea picnic grounds. This annual event is one of our church’s biggest fundraisers, and we are incredibly grateful to the club for once again allowing us the opportunity to serve them. A special thank you goes to Lisa Bolopue and Lana Sachetti for all of their hard work and dedication throughout the weekend. We would also like to extend our sincere appreciation to the local businesses that ...

Durty Dabbers

Carol McDermit Lock Haven The weekend of May 30-31, the People’s United Methodist Church of Farrandsville had the pleasure of serving breakfast to the Durty Dabber Cycle Club at the Castanea picnic grounds. This annual event is one of our church’s biggest fundraisers, and we are incredibly grateful to the club for once again allowing us the opportunity to serve them. A special thank you goes to Lisa Bolopue and Lana Sachetti for all of their hard work and dedication throughout the weekend. We would also like to extend our sincere appreciation to the local businesses that ...

Permitting reform needed

Jon Berman Elmhurst We continue to read about rising electricity rates that are exacerbating the inflation that is making our lives more expensive and difficult. While some states have been proactive in addressing the problem, a national solution is needed. Our existing grid can be made more efficient, but in the end we will need to build new transmission lines and create stronger connections between each of the regional grids. A major problem is that it takes too long to build these lines due to outdated regulations. The cost of solar and battery storage has decreased so ...

Who are the Red Rabbits?

Arthur Keller Beavertown “Socialist ‘Red Rabbits’ are training for national uprising against cops,” was a June 6 New York Post headline. This certainly caught my attention and I hope yours. The Red Rabbits have mostly kept a low profile, but their activities are beginning to surface, and you need to know what is in the near future. The Red Rabbits (a deliberately innocuous name) Security Commission, a subgroup within the Democrat Socialists of America (DSA) focused on “community defense” efforts, is preparing for a “national uprising against federal agents and police ...

1976 and 2026

Jim Newton Itasca In 1976, the TV cop series Barney Miller featured a bicentennial episode. The 12th precinct worked crowd control at a celebration-turned-protest. One officer announces, “We got some trouble on the harbor.” A frustrated Captain Miller replies, “This is beautiful. Rioting, fistfights, vandalism. It’s a lovely way to celebrate the bicentennial.” In 2026, is it safe to assume that we can relate? My personal recollection of 1976 is mostly positive: A Major League Baseball game in Chicago, fireworks and more festivity than protests. Watergate ended in 1974, ...

America’s momentous birthday

I consider it an incredible blessing to have witnessed two of America’s great milestone birthdays: the 200th celebration in 1976, when I was a rising second grader, and now the 250th anniversary as an older, seasoned adult. Looking back to 1976, as a kid, I enjoyed the fireworks and the parades I watched on television, and for me, this was a time of innocence when I began to learn about our country’s principal ideals of freedom, individual liberty, opportunity and democracy. Although the suffering of Native Americans was glossed over in school, and the contributions and achievements ...