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Football in your town and my town

Kimball Shinkoskey Woods Cross This is the season when men lose their minds. This is the fall football season when the bodies, minds, passions and paychecks of men get sucked up into that great expanding autumn void where nothing else matters but the kickoff and the next four hours of the game. With high school, college and professional games, virtually every day of the week there is a game to look forward to. One streaming company tells people they can watch every game every Sunday with their service. Folks, that would take the entire waking day, but that is what the ...

A veteran’s grave

Joseph R. Torrell Bellefonte My dad served his country during World War II. On Aug. 8, 1944, a young man from rural Jefferson County, Pa., found himself in the waist of a B-17 bomber flying a mission in the skies over France. Dad rarely talked about that experience, only to tell us both his plane and he took a bad hit. Dad recalled that he thought he saw his leg fly away from his body and out the door of his plane that day. It was a grievous wound, but dad made it back to base where his injury was tended and he was eventually sent back home to Jefferson County. Dad limped from his ...

Democracies threatened by autocracies

Donald Moskowitz Londonderry, NH Alan W. Dowd, in The American Legion Magazine of July 2024, comprehensively describes the plight of world democracies countering the expansionism and exploitation of one-man rule autocracies. I paraphrase him at times. In essence he says the free world needs “an alliance of democracies” against the autocracies of Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela. Deterring the autocracies requires the free world to increase defense spending and collaborating in mutual programs designed to enhance the capabilities of democracies to counter the ...

U.S. leads global oil production

Ed Zygmunt Laceyville It’s no surprise Donald Trump returned to Pennsylvania to peddle twaddle to anyone gullible enough to buy it. None of Trump’s blabbering stands out more than his dishonesty about America’s energy production under Biden-Harris. I live in the heart of Marcellus shale drilling operations in Susquehanna County. My township is saturated with natural gas wells that have benefited many landowners and our economy. Lately, however, there’s been a marked slowdown in drilling activities that has nothing to do with the current administration’s energy policies. ...

More technology or slower pace?

Stephen Poorman Lock Haven While enjoying breakfast at the bustling downtown Lock Haven Woolworth’s lunch counter, the late Charles Ryan, long-time Publisher of this newspaper and proponent of the 1993 Lock Haven Dike Levee flood protection system, quipped: “Steve, did you ever wonder what life would be without memories?” Then much younger, this one-liner didn’t resonate. Yet, the “memory journey” for many might begin with a slower pace or higher quality of life. So, close your eyes and jump-start your imagination as we travel from Avis to Lock Haven. What do ...

Harris Walz vs the Second Amendment

David Kveragas Clarks Summit Vice President Kamala Harris repeatedly used the term “the people,“ including how her whole career has been about serving “the people” during her nomination acceptance speech at the DNC Convention. Someone needs to read her the Second Amendment which includes the phrase “right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed“ every time she says she’s going to have “mandatory gun buybacks.” Not to mention her vow to “take action” if Congress does not act on gun control/confiscation in her first 100 days if elected ...