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Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> Greene County officials are able to continue expanding broadband capabilities to underserved areas thanks to a $1 million donation from CNX Foundation. In partnership with Kinetic by Windstream, the money will be used to install 31 miles of ...

Explain use of private law firms

Republican majorities in both legislative houses and Gov. Tom Wolf have not agreed on much during the Democratic governor’s eight years in office. But they are of one mind in refusing to tell the public why they spend large sums of the public’s money on private law firms.Commonwealth Court ...

Christmas lights were extinguished in Moore County, N.C., for much of the last week.And that was actually the least of the community’s problems.Gunfire crippled two electric substations in the rural county Saturday, plunging it into darkness for days on end. Because of the extent and type of ...

COVID-19’s dominance over health and medical news for nearly three years has, understandably, relegated other ailments and diseases to the background, although TV commercials and other advertising geared toward certain products and medicines have rightly continued to attract people afflicted ...

Let’s hope patriotism can return

The emphases in this country on the beginning of World War II generally center around Dec. 7, 1941, the day of the infamous Japanese aerial sneak attack on the American naval fleet based at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.Actually, the war already was in progress for more than two years before that ...

As life has steadily returned to normal after the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the masks have largely come off and people are returning to the rhythms of life they enjoyed before March 2020. This year, that will mean lots of holiday gatherings, travel and merriment.And even though — ...