JIM HIRONIMUS White Hall, Md. Millheim now has two coffee shops. They are located just a few doors from one another. This is good for the town and will draw more people and possibly help surrounding businesses. I strongly recommend that Millheim does what the neighboring town of ...

FRED BUCHEIT Howard Nathan Benefield waxes eloquent about the “school choice” movement while claiming he is a member of a think tank. The words think tank sound as though a lot of thinking might go on there, but what is important is what they think about. In many cases the tank is ...

DIANNE PETERS Lock Haven I would like to honor my father. He was concerned about conserving natural resources. When I was a child we went to state parks and he always told us to pick up any trash around our campsite or picnic area. He always said Pennsylvania has the best parks and they ...

JIM NEWTON Itasca, Ill. A 5th grade classmate of mine named Bob was friendly almost to a fault. Today, his behavior might be attributed to ADHD (attention deficit disorder.) Bob was off one day and our teacher had a heart-to-heart talk with the rest of the class. He asked us to be more ...

RON WILLIAMS Pennsylvania Furnace As we breathed Canadian wildfire smoke this summer, new climate records were being set somewhere every day. Previously abnormal weather has become the new normal in the U.S. and abroad. Maybe we should be beyond “concerned.” John Vaillant in his ...

RAFIA WARAICH Altoona We live in a time when ugly acts like insulting prophets and religious scriptures is often camouflaged in the name of freedom of expression. Burning of the Qur’an by “Danish Patriots” exemplified one such incident. Since ages, the human race has witnessed ...