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Dear Annie: Grandma stuck between two parenting styles

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Dear Annie: My husband and I absolutely adore our grandchildren, and spending time with them is one of the great joys of our lives. The problem is that our son and daughter-in-law have very different parenting styles, and we keep finding ourselves caught in the middle. Our son is much more relaxed about things like bedtime, sweets and screen time. Our daughter-in-law is stricter and likes to keep the children on a very specific routine. For example, our son will tell us it is fine if the kids stay up late watching a movie, but later our daughter-in-law will be upset because they were ...

Applause, Applause

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Each Saturday, The Express community newspaper highlights people, groups and activities our readers deem worthy of applause. Mill Hall Elementary School would like to send a huge THANK YOU to the local businesses who donated to our Grandparents and Special Friends Day recently. Students and guests enjoyed a school-wide game of Bingo, with prizes for students made possible through generous donations from Arby’s, Dunkin’ Donuts, Ice Shack, McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Subway, Taco Bell, Weis Markets in Lock Haven and Weis Markets in Mill Hall. Thank you for supporting local students ...

Yosemite, again in corporate crosshairs, embodies the long war over US national park privatization

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Reports that the Trump administration is working to transfer part of Yosemite National Park to a private land developer have heightened concerns among park advocates and the public about privatization of public land. The proposed deal, which a government spokesperson said has not been finalized, would involve a land swap: The government would give the developer a small area of the park’s land on which to build a private access road between a proposed resort and the park itself. In exchange, the developer would buy land of similar value near the park, or elsewhere in California, and ...

Gen Z is prepared and excited to learn

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The 2026 autumn semester has quickly entered full swing, and I am eager to see how my English composition students at Ohio State University’s Lima campus approach their research for their first essay. We have not yet had our library research sessions, but some have expressed strong interest in writing about the importance of literacy for their generation, with artificial intelligence posing new academic challenges for them and their younger peers in high school. I was very pleased to read in their first-day writing assignments how strongly these students feel about doing their own work ...

Tiffany isn’t the only name in stained glass lamps

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For many of us, we’re not quite far enough into fall for the ground to be covered in golden leaves. If you love the look, though, you can find plenty of fall foliage in antique decorative arts. Take a look at the Autumn Leaf table lamp made by the Suess Ornamental Glass Co. about 1910. ...

Dear Annie: Husband crosses the line online

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Dear Annie: My husband has recently become obsessed with Twitter. He spends hours a day on his computer away from his family. I’ve supported this unusual hobby until recently. I noticed he and another female Tweeter calling each other “besties,” and they have cute nicknames for each other. I confronted my husband about it, and he told me that it was just for the “audience” and that I’m being jealous. After more digging, I found some personal messages between them where he tells her how amazing she is and how he can’t wait to grow with her. Not only that, but he also ...